WHAT IS THE 'FOREIGN AGENTS' BILL AND WHO'S CALLING FOR IT? The draft Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence would require all organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence,
Georgia's parliament has approved a law requiring media organizations to register being under foreign influence if they receive over 20 percent of their funding from abroad.
Georgian lawmakers backed in the first of three readings a bill targeting foreign-funded groups that’s triggered days of protests outside the parliament building and criticism from international partners.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a daily call with reporters that the situation in Georgia was being used to stoke anti-Russian sentiment and that the United States, not Russia, was the country which had pioneered such legislation.
Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country's parliament that was protesting a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
Some 20,000 protesters rallied in Georgia on Wednesday after lawmakers advanced a controversial "foreign influence" law that opponents say will undermine Tbilisi's longstanding European aspirations.
Thousands take to the streets of Tbilisi in a second night of demonstrations after politicians came to blows in parliament over controversial ‘foreign agent’ bill
Demonstrators took to the streets of Tbilisi for a second night on Wednesday in protest against a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
Georgian lawmakers gave a first green light Wednesday to a controversial "foreign influence" law that has sparked mass street protests over concerns it would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.
Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday agreed an early draft of a controversial "foreign influence" bill, sparking fresh street protests against the legislation criticised for mirroring a repressive Russian law.
After a marathon session that started on Monday and was marked by protests outside and a fistfight inside the building, the controversial Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence made it through the first hearing in Georgian Parliament on Wednesday.
Georgian lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a controversial "foreign influence" law that has sparked mass street protests over concerns it would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.
The bill, which has provoked days of protests, must pass two more readings before becoming law. It would require organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence,
Georgia's parliament was poised to advance Wednesday with a controversial "foreign influence" law that has sparked mass street protests over concerns it would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.