Critics accuse the ruling Georgian Dream party of being under the sway of Russia and of backsliding on democracy. On Sunday, demonstrators outside the parliament building in capital Tbilisi waved Georgian, Ukrainian and European Union flags and held a huge banner that read: "For a European future". One of the demonstrators, 27-year-old painter Luka Kavsadze, told the AFP news agency: "Our struggle will be peaceful but uncompromised and will lead us to where we belong - the European Union