What triggered the protests?
Thousands of people took to the streets in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, this week after parliament backed a draft law which critics, who called it a “Russian law”, said would limit press freedom and undercut Georgia’s efforts to become a candidate for EU membership.
The law, backed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, would require any organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as “foreign agents” or face substantial fines.
After two days of wide-scale protests, the party on Thursday announced it would “unconditionally withdraw the bill we supported without any reservations”.
From Tbilisi to Savannah, Georgians agree that there's just too damned much US influence in Georgian politics
is there some other part of the law that people are actually mad about? transparency like this seems like it would've been an unqualified good.
Not that I can actually find and I went through as much English language ghoul media as I could before posing the question to the megathread.
There's since been an excellent thread by a Georgian communist that adds a lot of needed context.
lol because they're all US funded. The protests were probsbly whipped up by the US.
Additional coverage from New Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSeU30VpgQ
