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Georgian police used tear gas on Tuesday to disperse a large protest outside the parliament building against a proposed bill that would require media and non-profit organizations to register as foreign-influenced if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Opponents of the proposal argue that it could derail Georgia's ambitions to become a member of the European Union and refer to it as "the Russian law," likening it to similar legislation in Moscow that targets and discredits independent media and organizations viewed as contrary to Kremlin interests. The parliament debated th...
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Georgians have protested against a controversial foreign influence law. The legislation will compel media and non-commercial organisations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their budget from abroad. Similar laws were adopted in Russia and used to stifle opposition to the Kremlin.
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Georgians have protested against the ruling party’s controversial "foreign agent law", with arrests reported Monday night. The draft bill was under discussion by the parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Tuesday, according to OC Media. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said fourteen people were detained. The bill is nearly identical to a proposal the governing Georgian Dream party was pressured to withdraw a year ago after large street protests. On Monday, protesters sang patriotic songs and shouted “slaves” outside the parliament, suggesting the house was bending to pressure from Russia. Man...
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The Parliament has opened a formal probe into Latvian lawmaker Tatjana Ždanoka, accused in an investigation by Russian newspaper The Insider of working as an agent for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) - the successor to the Soviet-era KGB - from 2004 to 2017. Speaking after a meeting of the bloc’s 27 leaders on Thursday, Metsola said the scandal "has also put us on the alert". Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Siliņa and other EU leaders were "worried" that such foreign interference "could be replicated in other situations, whether in the current legislature or the future one," she added...
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