Party politics

The rave scene in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s was about much more than a bunch of mindless hedonists getting off their faces and having a good time. As BBC correspondent Rayhan Demytrie explains, a similar scenario is now playing out in Georgia, with clubbers, members of the LGBT community and drug liberalisation activists fighting for personal freedom in the face of fierce opposition from far-right groups and the Georgian Orthodox Church, as well as the police and the state. Her report from the front line in Tbilisi gives the impression of a tinderbox situation, set against a backdrop of Western-Russian tensions, that could explode at any time.