Georgia's president has vetoed a divisive "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests. On Tuesday MPs passed the controversial law which requires NGOs and independent media ...

In backing the so-called "foreign agent" law, Georgia's parliamentarians defied ... The law will be sent to the president before it can go into effect, and President Salome Zourabichvili ...

Georgia’s President Salome ... it was important for the president to make the move. “The president rightfully said how it [foreign agent’s law] is a Russia law and contradicts all of ...

Georgia's 'foreign agent' law On May 28, the Georgian Parliament overrode President Salome Zourabichvili's veto on the law On Transparency of Foreign Influence, effectively enacting it.

In particular, it adopted a “foreign agent” law in May 2024 ... them in a shorter time frame. Georgia’s current ruling party came to power after then-President Mikheil Saakashvili ...

TBILISI -- A widely criticized new law that threatens to publicly discredit thousands of media outlets and civil society groups as "serving" outside powers went into effect in Georgia on August 1 ...

TBILISI — The Georgian government’s plans to brand Western-funded NGOs, media outlets and campaign groups as “foreign agents” were rejected by the country’s president on Saturday, but the ruling party ...

The law has triggered protests ... Reporting from Tbilisi, Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia said on Saturday that she had vetoed a bill on foreign influence that has sparked ...

Zourabichvili: Foreign agent law 'contradicts our constitution ... as she believes the legislation is hurting Georgia's aspirations to join the EU. President of the European Council Charles ...

President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili on Friday vetoed a controversial “foreign agents” law that has been decried as “Russian-style” legislation and has sparked massive protests in the country.