Protest actions that started on the weekend have been continuing in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Sources claim that between several hundred and several thousand people spent the night before Monday on the square near a go-vernment building. Demonstrators demanding the resignation of the country’s President Mikheil Saakashvili promised to stay there until he leaves his post. Saakashvili himself, in the meanwhile, is on an official visit to Hungary. As France-Presse reports, a further 24-hour rally is being held near the Tbilisi television center. Around 300 people spent a night there, many of them holding sticks in case of new clashes with law enforcement bodies. On Sunday the police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators. The website of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs states that the participants of the protest actions attacked a police car and a few demonstrators were detained shortly after. The Georgian opposition proclaimed May 25 to be “The Day of Anger” and “the decisive day in the struggle with the regime of Mikheil Saakashvili.” The former minister of defense Irakli Okruashvili said that May 25 would become “the last day of the current government,” and the leader of the People’s Assembly Nino Burjanadze stated that “a revolution has started in Georgia.” Demonstrators are going to march in the streets of Tbilisi and force the head of the state to resign. However, agencies point out that the number of participants of the protest actions is relatively low: on Saturday about 6,000 people went out to the streets of Tbilisi, and even fewer did so on Sunday. The country’s government promised not to interfere with demonstrators if their actions remained peaceful.







