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Thousands gathered on 14 March in Kutaisi to protest the project. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Georgia

In Pictures | Anti-dam protesters gather in Kutaisi

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

On Sunday, thousands gathered in the central Georgian city of Kutaisi to protest the construction of the nearby Namakhvani hydropower project. The main demand of the protesters, who have been rallying intermittently for the last 141 days, is for the Georgian government to cancel its ‘unlawful’ decision to support the construction of the Namakhvani hydropower plant. An additional and more recent demand is the resignation of Economy Minister Natia Turnava. [Read on OC Media: Activists prot

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Kutaisi’s broken dreams: the fate of Georgia’s abandoned parliament

by Lana Kokaia

•8 min read

The newly created civic movement ‘Leave Parliament in Kutaisi’ is fighting to bring the Georgian parliament back to Kutaisi, after a series of broken promises have left the city reeling. ‘With this decision, Georgian Dream told Kutaisi to die’, Eka Pkhakadze, a leader of Leave Parliament in Kutaisi (LPK), a Kutaisi-based advocacy group, tells OC Media. She says that LPK will not allow any political party to run a successful election campaign in Kutaisi unless they declare that the par