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Tbilisi City Hall cracks down on street vendors
Tbilisi City Hall has began a campaign to clear the streets of vendors selling clothes, books, fruits and vegetables, and various other things. They claim that they are a nuisance to pedestrians in the city’s busiest streets. Many of the vendors, however, claim that selling on the street is the only way they can survive. For years Malvina, 67, has sold clothes on a small counter in front of Akhmeteli Metro Station, in one of Tbilisi’s suburbs. Malvina helps other street vendors to move thei
