TBILISI, Georgia, May 25 (UPI) -- Despite protests Wednesday in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, a reform leader expressed frustration that opposition to the country's president was divided.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets Wednesday in Tbilisi, making it the fifth consecutive day of demonstrations against President Mikheil Saakashvili.
The opposition Georgian Party announced this week it was canceling major demonstrations against Saakashvili because it couldn't convince opposition leader and parliamentary Speaker Nino Burdzhanadze to postpone her own political event.
Burdzhanadze in the midst of the Wednesday demonstrations expressed frustration that opposition to Saakashvili was divided, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reports.
Moscow warned against a heavy police presence in the Georgian capital, though the government in Tbilisi said it was exercising restraint.
Russia and Georgia went to war briefly in 2008 over two breakaway republics. The Texas-based intelligence company Stratfor notes Georgia has announced that the Russian killing of the Circassian people in the late 1800s was an act of genocide.
