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Monday, June 24, 2019, #119 (4423)

Parliament Speaker, MP resign amid harsh public protest

Georgian Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze had to reign after a Russian MP from the occupant country appeared in his seat and addressed the audience during the 26th Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy on June 20. (more)

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International react to Tbilisi rallies

Human Rights Watch says that riot police in Tbilisi fired rubber bullets and used tear gas “without warning” against thousands of nonviolent protesters outside the Georgian Parliament on June 20, ... (more)

Kadyrov threatens ‘there is only 200 km from Grozny to Tbilisi’

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Russia uses economic levers vs Georgia as its MPs faced ‘attack’

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The News in Brief

"‘Civil Movement’ creates a petition" (more)

Opinion & Analysis

Putin’s ban on flights- problem or opportunity

Following the outrage caused by Sergei Gavrilov, the member of the Russian Communist Party who took the Chairman’s seat in the Parliament of Georgia, ... (more)
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