GEORGIA-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-DEMO [Georgia’s Human Chain Stronger than Russian Tanks]

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– October 2, 2010Posted in:

Georgian’s protest in Tbilisi on September 1, 2008. “Georgia is united as never before. There are one million people on the streets,” President Mikheil Saakashvili told a crowd on Freedom Square in central Tbilisi, part of a “human chain” that stretched for kilometres (miles). Huge crowds of Georgians rallied against Russia’s occupation of parts of the country in what officials said was the biggest protest in the ex-Soviet republic’s history. The rally coincided with an emergency summit of EU leaders in Brussels deciding how to respond to Russia’s actions. AFP PHOTO / POOL / IRAKLI GEDENIDZE (Photo credit should read IRAKLI GEDENIDZE/AFP/Getty Images)