> teenagers, parents, footballers, politicians and even the president have taken to the streets of tbilisi, georgia every night to express their objection to the october parliamentary elections and the georgian governments recent announcement it was suspending the countrys european union accession. old folks are out there too. > in one video, young men kindly surround a babushka to prevent her from getting pummeled by water cannons. black-clad robo cops without any identifying insignia are brutally attacking peaceful protesters, kicking their heads in when they are already on the ground and unconscious. > these security forces have a particular appetite for journalists, such that several of my friends are in the hospital with broken noses and concussions. > i moved to georgia in 2014, at a time when democracy was having a moment. there had been a peaceful transfer of power from mikheil saakashvilis regime to the georgian dream coalition. democratic reforms were being implemented. the country established a ministry dedicated to integration into the eu and nato. it was a safe haven for democratic activists from autocratic regimes. > now it has itself become an autocracy. > to avoid turning georgia into the ukraine 2.0 we need to turn georgia into the ukraine 2.0
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