The 'foreign agents' law that has set off mass protests in Georgia
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Georgia’s parliament is set to pass a highly controversial so-called “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet republic nestled in the Caucasus Mountains. The vote comes after tens of thousands of people came out to protest the legislation in the capital, Tbilisi. Here’s what you need to know about the proposed law and the uproar it has caused. What’s in the law? The bill would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad...
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50,000 protest Georgia's foreign agent bill
About 50,000 opponents of a "foreign agents" bill marched peacefully in heavy rain through the Georgian capital on Saturday, after the United States said the country had to choose between the "Kremlin-style" law and the people's Euro-Atlantic aspirations. "We are deeply alarmed about democratic backsliding in Georgia," White House national
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Georgia ‘returning to the past’ with foreign agents law, says president
Salome Zurabishvili says protests in Tbilisi prove Georgians 'will never return to Russian pressure'