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[T]housands of Georgians took to the streets of the country’s capital Tbilisi for two days of protests, waving EU flags and facing down riot police armed with water cannons and tear gas. The contentious [now withdrawn] legislation would have required all organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. The Georgian law was widely viewed as inspired by Vladimir Putin…
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SING IT.
Georgia, Georgia
The whole day through
As you march toward
Your place in the EU
I said Georgia
Georgia, what joy I find
Freedom’s old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
Other arms reach out to you
Other eyes lie viciously
Still in peaceful crowds I see
The road leads back to you
March 10th, 2023 at 11:10PM
Do you think protests in the States will overturn its own laws on Foreign Agents?
https://www.cov.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/2018/01/the-foreign-agents-registration-act-fara
March 11th, 2023 at 9:35AM
Dmitry: Thanks for linking to this – I read Covington’s updated summary of foreign agent rules, and they seem to have little to do with the sweeping percentage-based, paranoid mandates coming from Putin. As for any concerted opposition forming itself in this country against a hopelessly convoluted bureaucratic brain twister: no chance.