After Georgian lawmakers passed a "foreign agent" bill, protests against it are continuing, even beyond the capital. A team of mountaineers made a trek to a high peak in the Caucasus to fly the flags of Georgia and the EU in a show of support for the protests and the country's European aspirations.
Activist Kristo Talakhadze was forcibly detained by Georgian security forces during a protest against the so-called foreign agent law in Tbilisi. At a later demonstration, Talakhadze confronted the man to ask him why he had attacked her peaceful protest.
Mariam Pirashvili is a unique figure in Tbilisi who moves among demonstrators opposed to Georgia's "foreign agent" bill, which critics say could curtail civil liberties. She passes around a garbage bag, collecting litter. Pirashvili says the rallies are about protesting and "tidying up our country."
RFE/RL spoke to younger Georgians -- the so-called "Generation Z" -- who joined protests against a controversial new law that would have forced entities with over 20 percent of overseas funding to register as "foreign agents."
Georgia once supplied 95 percent of all the tea in the Soviet Union and was among the top five tea-producing regions in the world. But when the U.S.S.R. collapsed, so did Georgia's tea industry. Now, it's now making a comeback.
