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GEORGIA’S PARLIAMENT GIVES FINAL APPROVAL TO ‘FOREIGN AGENTS’ MEASURE

The president has vowed to veto the legislation, which critics say could push
the country back into Russia’s orbit. The governing party says it can override a
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Georgian political parties supporters protesting during a rally to oppose a
draft bill on “foreign agents” in front of the Parliament building in Tbilisi,
Georgia, on Tuesday.Credit...David Mdzinarishvili/EPA, via Shutterstock

By Ivan Nechepurenko

Reporting from Tbilisi, Georgia

May 14, 2024
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The Parliament of Georgia gave final approval on Tuesday to a contentious bill
that has prompted a series of tense protests in the capital, Tbilisi, spurred by
fears that the legislation could push the country back into the Kremlin’s orbit.

President Salome Zourabichvili has promised to veto the bill. But Georgian
Dream, the governing party in Georgia since 2012, has enough votes to override
her veto.

Both the opposition and the government have presented the passage of the
innocuous-sounding bill, titled “On Transparency of Foreign Influence,” as a
momentous step in the history of Georgia, a mountainous country of 3.6 million
saddled in the middle of the Caucasus Mountains.

The draft law would require nongovernmental groups and media outlets that
receive more than 20 percent of their funding from foreign sources to register
as “organizations carrying the interests of foreign power” and provide annual
financial statements about their activities. Georgia’s justice ministry would be
given broad powers to monitor compliance. Violations would incur fines
equivalent to more than $9,300.

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Government officials and lawmakers from the ruling party said that the draft law
would strengthen the country’s sovereignty by making nongovernmental
organizations, which have occupied a central role in Georgia’s highly polarized
political life, more transparent to the public.

But the vocal pro-Western opposition has denounced the legislation as a stealthy
effort to convert Georgia into a pro-Russian state.

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Ivan Nechepurenko covers Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the countries of the
Caucasus, and Central Asia. He is based in Moscow. More about Ivan Nechepurenko

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