More than 10,000 protesters rallied on Thursday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi after a Russian lawmaker provocatively addressed the country's parliament from the speaker's seat during an international event. Russian Communist MP Sergei Gavrilov addressed delegates from the seat of Georgia's parliamentary speaker during an annual meeting of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO), a forum of lawmakers from predominantly Orthodox countries.
The Russian MP's presence in fiercely pro-Western Georgia's parliament prompted outrage in the ex-Soviet nation which in 2008 fought and lost a brief but bloody war with Moscow over breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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