Known during the Soviet era as Lenin Square, Freedom Square, which appears to the eye more like ‘Freedom Roundabout’, is at the heart of the bustling city of Tbilisi, the capital of the Caucasus nation of Georgia. Historians will also be aware that it was the location of an attempted assassination of President George W Bush in 2005 and the Bolsheviks’ 1907 Tiflis Bank Robbery. This small corner of the southern Caucuses has seen its fair share of historical and political turmoil. With protests erupting in the city in April of this year, it appears 2024 will be a year befitting Georgia’s complicated and convulsive history.
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