They snatch protesters from the crowd and drag them back into a mass of black uniforms.
Will Cathcart Will CathcartHundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Georgia in recent weeks to protest the government’s adoption of a Kremlin-inspired “foreign agents” bill.
As with the foreign agents law, the bill’s authors claim it promotes transparency, an absurd notion.
The foreign agents bill is a symptom of a deeper issue – money.
The pressures of authoritarian intimidation and systematic violence have hardened Georgia’s young protestors like diamonds.
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