On a cold mid-December evening in the center of Tbilisi, I met Nika Khotchdava, a 28-year-old disc jockey and manager at the popular techno club Left Bank. As we spoke, Nika and I were surrounded by a vast crowd of tens of thousands of his compatriots, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who had gathered in front of the Georgian parliament building to protest the ruling Georgian Dream party’s decision to suspend accession talks with the European Union. On the heels of a national election in late October that is widely believed to have been rigged, the decision about the EU has plunged Georgia into a crisis in which the country’s future in the West may be at stake.
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