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President of Georgia sympathises with protesters anger

The President of Georgia, Salom茅 Zourabichvili, says she sympathises with protesters, angry at the visit of a Russian MP to the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi. Emotions remain raw, eleven years after Georgia fought and lost a short war with Russia over the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia.

(Photo: Protesters clash with riot police during a mass rally in front of the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia on 20 June 2019. Credit: EPA)

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