Feature Stories
Poisoned, soaked, but still dancing: Georgia’s Zoomers come of political age
Sassy posters, raving to sirens, dancing with water jets, and barricades made of scooters; these have become some of the symbols of the demonstrations that defeated Georgia’s foreign agent bills — and symbols of Generation Z’s entrance into politics. ‘This protest was different; there was more humour in it’, says 21-year-old Anastasia Pirtskhalaishvili. Pirtskhalaishvili was among thousands of young people who took to the streets in early March, after the ruling party passed the foreign agen
