Rustaveli Avenue, the capital city’s main thoroughfare, was unblocked outside the Parliament on July 24 – fifteen weeks after the avenue was blocked as part of the group of opposition parties’ anti-government protests.

Improvised prison cells, which were blocking the avenue, were removed by the police and relocated to sidewalks on July 22, ahead of the U.S. Vice President’s visit to Tbilisi. The move did not trigger opposition’s resistance, which announced earlier about it plans to scrap so called ‘town of cells’.

Rustaveli Avenue and some other streets in central parts of Tbilisi were shut down for security reasons by the police during the visit of U.S. Vice President, who left Tbilisi on Thursday evening.