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Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

Caledonian Record 27 Mar 2023
Georgians protest a foreign agent bill that mirrored a Russian law used to crack down on dissent ... After several days of mass protests and clashes between protesters and police in early March, the ruling party of Georgia, a former Soviet state located in the Caucasus, succumbed to pressure and abandoned its proposed laws on foreign agents.
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EU Justice Commissioner Discusses Sanctions Compliance With Georgian Foreign Minister

Urdu Point 24 Mar 2023
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders met with Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Friday to discuss democracy and rule of law, as well as compliance with EU sanctions during his visit to Tbilisi ... as well as compliance with EU sanctions during his visit to Tbilisi.
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Georgian Government Pins Recent Protests On 'Satanists' Funded By The U.S.

Radio Free Europe 16 Mar 2023
The club found itself in the crosshairs of the ruling Georgian Dream party, after tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, on March 7-9 to demand that parliament drop a controversial "foreign agents" law. The law would have required media ...
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Pro-Russia Power Grab in Georgia Thwarted by Massive Street Protests

Tacoma News Tribune 16 Mar 2023
Demonstrations involving some 10,000 protestors opposed to a Russia-style "foreign agent" law took to the streets of Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, last week. They were met ... .
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UK’s Cleverly tells struggling Moldova: ‘You are not alone’

Wtop 16 Mar 2023
Days earlier, U.S ... Georgia too was rocked this month by mass protests over a so-called “foreign agents law,” which opponents said would curtail media freedoms and could be used to stifle dissent. Protesters in Tbilisi said the bill was inspired by a similar law in Russia that has been used to silence critics ... ___ ... Source .
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UK's Cleverly tells struggling Moldova: 'You are not alone'

Killeen Daily Herald 16 Mar 2023
Days earlier, U.S ... Georgia too was rocked this month by mass protests over a so-called “foreign agents law,” which opponents said would curtail media freedoms and could be used to stifle dissent. Protesters in Tbilisi said the bill was inspired by a similar law in Russia that has been used to silence critics ... Copyright 2023 The Associated Press ... ....
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Ukraine recap: fears of escalation after US drone downed over the Black Sea

The Conversation 16 Mar 2023
Downing of US drone in Russian jet encounter prompts counter claims of violations in the sky – an international law expert explores the arguments ... False flag ops, which are a particular part of the Kremlin’s playbook, are not illegal under the rules of war, writes David Turns, a senior lecturer in international law at Cranfield University.
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Moldova first domino in Moscow’s horizontal escalation plan

Asiatimes 15 Mar 2023
The government there, after three days of increasingly violent protests, had to withdraw a bill in parliament that would have severely restricted civil and political liberties in ways eerily reminiscent of Russia’s foreign agents law ... Recent protests in Tbilisi forced the government to withdraw Russia-inspired legislation.
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EU may introduce foreign agents law Politico

Beijing News 14 Mar 2023
A survey commissioned by the EU could signal that Brussels is getting ready to introduce its own foreign agents law, Politico reported on Monday ... Thousands took to the streets in the capital, Tbilisi, for several days earlier in March decrying a draft law on foreign agents.
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Is Georgia seeing a ‘colour revolution’?

The Spectator 13 Mar 2023
On the face of it, the protests that rocked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last week looked a lot like recent regional history repeating itself ... In Tbilisi, despite determined assaults by police, the protesters won ... ‘No Russians welcome here, good or bad!’ was scrawled in English on a wall in Tbilisi last October and widely shared on social media.
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Georgian PM vows to prevent opening of second front for Ukraine

Blitz 13 Mar 2023
On March 7 and 8, large-scale protests took place in Tbilisi after the adoption by the country’s parliament in the first reading of the draft law “On the transparency of foreign influence.” The document envisaged the creation of a register of non-governmental organizations and media receiving foreign funding.
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France Supports Georgia's Integration With EU - Foreign Minister

Urdu Point 13 Mar 2023
Colonna told Zourabichvili, who herself used to be a French diplomat before she was elected president of her forebears' country, to implement reforms aimed at strengthening the rule of law in accordance with the 12 recommendations given by the European Commission to Tbilisi in ...
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France Supports Georgia's Integration With EU - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna

Urdu Point 13 Mar 2023
Colonna told Zourabichvili, who herself used to be a French diplomat before she was elected president of her forebears' country, to implement reforms aimed at strengthening the rule of law in accordance with the 12 recommendations given by the European Commission to Tbilisi in ...
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Has Georgia’s Russian drift come to an end?

New Statesman 13 Mar 2023
A bill supported by the country’s increasingly autocratic government, which would have helped neuter independent media and critical NGOs, and brought the country closer to authoritarianism, has been withdrawn after days of fierce protests in Tbilisi, the capital ...Russian law”.
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Putin’s nemesis ‘poisoned in jail and is close to death’

Metro UK 13 Mar 2023
Mr Saakashvili’s renewed claims of an ongoing attempt on his life come after mass protests in the capital of Tbilisi saw the government throw out a proposed law, which threatened to curtail civil society and press freedoms ... There were fears the proposed law on ‘foreign agents’ ...

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In this photo made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, a Russian navy boat launches an anti-ship missile test in the Peter The Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan
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