Beads of sweat gather on Zviad Tsetskhladze's brow as he shouts into a megaphone, his fist clenched in the air on a sweltering summer's evening. Sakartvelo! the 19-year-old student from the Black Sea city of Batumi bellows using the native name of Georgia, before continuing with a series of catchy pro-European Union slogans. There are thousands of protesters in the crowd, snaking their way around Georgia's towering parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi.
Since April, Georgia has been rocked by protests in opposition to a controversial foreign agents law, requiring organizations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas to register as agents of foreign influence. Young protesters heap pressure on Georgian Dream, highlighting issues such as corruption and a perceived political shift away from the EU.
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