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Felix Light. May 11, 2024 at 4:10 AM. By Felix Light. TBILISI (Reuters) -The United States said on Saturday it was deeply alarmed by democratic backsliding in Georgia which Washington said had a ...
In 2023 and 2024, a series of street demonstrations took place throughout Georgia largely in opposition to the proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", which would require non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to register as foreign agents or "organizations carrying the interests of a foreign power" and disclose the sources of their income if the funds they receive from abroad ...
In late December 2023, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili summerized the year by saying that the government managed to "preserve the peace" amid a threat of destabilization caused by "radical groups and hostile forces operating within the country", and also to secure a EU candidate status for Georgia.
Irakli Kobakhidze (Georgian: ირაკლი კობახიძე; born 25 September 1978) is a Georgian constitutional scholar and politician who has served as the 16th Prime Minister of Georgia since February 2024.
In September 2023, the party founded the "Anti-Maidan movement" in Georgia to counter an alleged plan of Western-funded groups and Ukraine-based Georgian politicians to stage a coup in Georgia. On April 11, 2024, the Georgian Public Registry revoked the registration of the Conservative Movement as a valid and legal political party.
Georgian Dream was created partly as a reaction to the United National Movement (UNM) of Mikheil Saakashvili, which became increasingly unpopular in a decade of rule for its neoliberal economic policy, extremely punitive criminal justice system and confrontational approach to Russia. Saakashvili’s government has been described as "an ...
The Georgian uprising on Texel (Dutch: Opstand der Georgiërs) (5 April 1945 – 20 May 1945) was an insurrection by the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara (Queen Tamar or Tamara) of the Georgian Legion of the German Army stationed on the German-occupied Dutch island of Texel (pronounced Tessel). The battalion was made up of 800 Georgians ...
The Parliament of Georgia is the country's supreme representative body which effects legislative authority, determines the main directions of the country's home and foreign policy, controls the activity of the Government within limits defined by the Constitution and exercises other rights. [6] The Parliament of Georgia is a unicameral legislature.