GEORGIA |POLITICS |Fireworks, water cannons,tear gas used in Tbilisi as protesters clash with police

TBILISI, GEORGIA| Protesters and police skirmished in Georgia's capital for a fourth straight night, dragging on to the early hours of Monday (December 2), with signs that opposition to the government's decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union was spreading across the country.
Tensions have been rising for months in the country of 3.7 million people between the ruling Georgian Dream party and opponents who accuse it of pursuing increasingly authoritarian, anti-Western and pro-Russian policies.
The crisis has deepened since Thursday's (November 28) announcement that the government would freeze EU talks for four years, with thousands of pro-EU demonstrators facing off against police armed with tear gas and water cannon.
Protesters gathered again in Tbilisi on Sunday (December 1) night on central Rustaveli Avenue, firing fireworks at police, who responded with volleys of water cannons.
Well after midnight, after hours of standoff, police began moving demonstrators away from the parliament building and down Rustaveli Avenue towards the Tbilisi opera house and began erecting barricades with whatever materials they could find.
[Source: REUTERS]
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