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Massive crowd of Georgian opposition supporters fills Tbilisi's main square, with Georgian flags raised outside a large government building.

Demonstrators celebrating Slovenian independence hold a large white, blue, and red Slovenian flag aloft at night.

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Massive crowd of Georgian opposition supporters fills Tbilisi's main square, with Georgian flags raised outside a large government building.

Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution: Thousands of Georgians demonstrated throughout November 2003 to protest against fraudulent elections and to call for Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation

Supporters of the Georgian opposition rally on the main square of Tbilisi, November...

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Demonstrators celebrating Slovenian independence hold a large white, blue, and red Slovenian flag aloft at night.

Slovenia's independence in 1991: Enthusiastic demonstrators show their support for the Slovenian independence movement by holding the Slovenian flag aloft

Slovenia declared its secession from Yugoslavia in June 1991. Although the announcement...

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