On the streets of Georgia, it’s beginning to look a little bit just like the Ukraine of 10 years in the past, earlier than the struggle, when tensions with Russia began brewing.
An more and more authoritarian authorities in a former Soviet republic cools to the European Union and drifts nearer to Moscow.
Enormous protests erupt, calling for the federal government’s ouster.
Riot police reply.
Young demonstrators are overwhelmed up and dragged away.
Each aspect digs in, elevating the specter of a significant disaster in a rustic that has lengthy struggled to interrupt away from Russian dominance.
On the continent’s far jap edge, embracing the European Union could be a dangerous transfer, threatening vested pursuits, particularly these of Russia, which is cautious to lose any of its regional affect.
These tensions have been enjoying out to totally different levels lately in Georgia, Moldova and, in probably the most excessive instance, Ukraine. All three are former Soviet republics and Russian troops occupy totally different slices of every.
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