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Thousands of demonstrators tried to invest the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi on Thursday, June 20th. They protested against the presence of a Russian deputy in the Assembly at an international meeting.
Ten thousand protesters managed to break into the Georgian Parliament courtyard, breaking a police roadblock, before being repulsed. Protesters angry because a Russian deputy came to speak in front of the Georgian Assembly, even taking the seat of the President of this Assembly.
The Russian deputy was speaking at an international meeting on orthodoxy. But his presence with other Russian colleagues shocked a part of the population who went down the street en masse, waving Georgian flags and denouncing Russia as " an occupier ".
It must be said that the stigma of the 2008 war between the two countries is still there. At that time, Moscow had intervened militarily against Georgia, to support two pro-Russian separatist regions Abkhazia and North Ossetia. Two regions recognized as independent by Russia who stationed troops there.
Georgia has lost control of 20% of its territory. Western countries, for their part, denounced an illegal military occupation.
► See also: Ten years after the war, Georgia condemns the Russian occupation