TBILISI, June 3 (Reuters) - Georgia's parliamentary speaker signed into law on Monday a bill on "foreign agents" that has caused a political crisis in the South Caucasus country and drawn sharp criticism from its Western allies.
The dispute around the law is a test of whether Georgia, for three decades among the more pro-Western of the Soviet Union's successor states, will maintain its Western orientation or move closer to Russia.
And now the fun part begins: NGOs magically withering away or turning out to be completely foreign funded.
Isn't it interesting how the riots stopped just after the law was passed? Almost as if the money tap was turned off once it became clear the battle was lost...
Congratulations to Georgia for narrowly escaping the fate of becoming another Ukraine...for now.
Of course, it's no Hong Kong national security law, but it's a start. At least now the perfidious western agent NGOs will be exposed for what they are. The next step is to actually start to crack down on them.
I can't believe that they lack freedom so much that a completely organic and not at all foreign backed coup will occur in their near future. 😔
