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Young people took to the streets of Georgia’s capital in pro-Europe demonstration
Hundreds of young people marched in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday in a demonstration calling for the former Soviet republic, led by a party accused of being close to Russia, to join the European Union (EU).
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With flags in the colors of the EU and chanting "To Europe", one of the leaders of the movement asked into a megaphone: "Where are we going?".
The same question had been posed to his supporters last month by Georgian football star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, after the national team's historic qualification for Euro 2024.
But on Friday night, it was politics being debated in the streets of Tbilisi, reported the France-Presse (AFP) agency. Georgia currently has the status of a candidate country for the EU.
The Georgian capital has this week seen mass demonstrations against the ruling party's intention to pass a law that claims to combat "foreign influence", but which the opposition denounces as a copy of legislation that in Russia has allowed the Kremlin to stifle all dissent.
Brussels has warned that adopting this type of law could destroy Georgia's chances of joining the EU.
And the demonstrations in Tbilisi have highlighted the emergence of a passionately pro-European youth who are intransigent when it comes to defending Georgia's fragile democracy.
"We won't stop until the government rewrites its Russian law," 15-year-old Lika Naskidashvili assured during the demonstration.
Her friend, Guiorgui Torochelidze, with the EU flag painted on his forehead, added: "Who else but us? It's about our future and the destiny of Georgia!"
A former Soviet republic in the Caucasus, Georgia adopted a pro-Western orientation two decades ago, an orientation long championed by former President Mikheil Saakashvili, now in prison.
But the party currently in power, Georgian Dream, is accused of seeking to take the country back towards Moscow.
"Our government takes its orders from Russia, they are Putin's puppets," assured 16-year-old Levan Abramia.
"But where are we going?", he asked, to the crowd around him, who responded with one voice: "To Europe!".
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