The speaker of Georgia's parliament has stepped down in the wake of violent clashes that left at least 240 people injured, but the move failed to assuage protesters.
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They returned to the streets demanding the interior minister also step down over a brutal police response.
A night of clashes on Thursday was sparked by a Russian lawmaker who took the speaker's seat as a group of international lawmakers met at the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi.
It angered the opposition, which sees the current Georgian government as overly friendly to Russian interests.
The protests mark the largest outpouring of anger against the ruling Georgian Dream since it took power in 2012.
Officials said at least 240 people were injured when riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas and unleashed water cannons on protesters outside Georgia's parliament building during the clashes, which lasted into early Friday.
More than 100 people are still in the hospital, and two people lost eyes because of the rubber bullets, according to Tbilisi's New Hospital director Giorgi Kordzakhiya.
Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze blamed opposition leaders for the violence, saying they hijacked a "genuine" public outpouring but then "violated the law and the Constitution".
Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze, who was out of the country on an official visit, handed in his resignation but several thousand protesters returned to the parliament building on Friday, demanding the interior minister also resign.
Many wore eyepatches in solidarity with those who lost their eyes.
President Salome Zurabishvili also cut short a foreign trip to return to the capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered that the country's airlines stop transporting Russian citizens to Georgia beginning on July 8, citing national security concerns.
The reason for delaying the implementation wasn't immediately clear. He also ordered officials to assist in bringing Russians home from Georgia.
The move carries echoes of Russia's full ban on transport links with Georgia in 2006 amid rising tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Air connections were restored in 2010, two years after a short war between Russia and Georgia.
Australian Associated Press