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Protest in Tbilisi for dismissed Rustavi Azoti workers
Students, together with human rights activists and trade unions, organised a demonstration on 7 February in Georgia’s capital, to protest the mass firing of employees from a nitrogen plant in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of Tbilisi. The activists gathered at Rose Revolution Square, in the city centre, at noon, marching towards Freedom Square and the offices of Bank of Georgia (BOG). ‘The nitrogen plant under the ownership of BOG will either be conserved or will have a new investor, wh