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.