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Iuri Vazagashvili

Iuri Vazagashvili

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‘Anti-UNM’ tents set up outside Georgian parliament
2019 Gavrilov’s Night Protests

‘Anti-UNM’ tents set up outside Georgian parliament

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A newly launched movement vowing to counter Georgia’s former ruling party, the United National Movement (UNM), has set up tents in front of Parliament in an effort to reclaim the space for the ‘real voice of the people’. The group, Let’s Preserve Lives, say they want to prevent the return to power of anyone associated with the former UNM government, including from the European Georgia party, which broke away in January 2017.  On the night of 10 December, a fist-fight broke out outside par

Finance Minister Ivane Machavariani (top).
European Court of Human Rights

ECHR: Georgia must pay €50,000 to mother of police murder victim

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Georgia violated the right to life in the murder of two young men by police and also failed to properly investigate the crime, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled. On 18 July, the court ruled unanimously that Georgia must pay €50,000 ($56,000) in damages to Tsiala Shanava, whose son Zurab Vazagashvilil was one of two men deliberately killed by police in 2006.  In a special operation on 2 May 2006, police fatally shot Zurab Vazagashvili, 22, and Aleksandre Khubulov, 25, in

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