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Police fired volleys of tear gas and rounds of rubber bullets as a crowd gathered outside Georgia’s parliament on June 20 evening to demand the resignation of the legislature’s speaker.

Thousands had gathered to voice outrage over the visit of a Russian delegation, more than a decade after the two nations fought a war in which Georgia effectively lost two large chunks of its territory.

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