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Today, how protests over a Russian inspired law became a battle for the soul of Georgia.

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When the Soviet Union collapsed more than three decades ago, a lot of the countries that had lived under Russia's thumb for so long, were suddenly free.

Free to choose the kind of government they wanted to be part of Europe if they wanted to be.

Even free to try to join the military alliance NATO in theory.

In practice it wasn't really that simple.

Some of those countries Russia was not ready to just let go off.

One of them was Ukraine and there the struggle to break away from Russia

has become, in the past two years, a full-scale war.

In the country of Georgia, that struggle

looks like tens of thousands of people on the streets of the capital Tbilisi, every night for nearly a month.

Demonstrating about a bill, they is inspired by the way the Kremlin has cracked down on civil society in Russia

and could see Georgia's own fragile civil society crushed in the years to come.

The Guardian's chief reporter Daniel Boffi is in Tbilisi right now talking to protesting.

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