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Spurred on by a reclusive billionaire founder, Georgia's ruling party has triggered a showdown with young, anti-Moscow protesters that is growing more tense and violent by the day. Police fired ...
TBILISI (Reuters) -Georgia's ruling party accused the United States on Friday of pursuing a policy of "threats and blackmail" after Washington announced new visa restrictions over a draft law on ...
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 ...
Georgia's president has vetoed a divisive "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests. On Tuesday MPs passed the controversial law which requires NGOs and independent media ...
e. The 2020–2021 Georgian political crisis was a political crisis in Georgia that resulted from allegations by opposition parties that the 2020 Georgian parliamentary election was rigged. The opposition accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of election fraud and did not recognize the results. They announced protests and parliamentary boycott.
By the time of elections, Georgian Dream (GD) had been the ruling party in Georgia since defeating Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM) in the 2012 parliamentary election. Announcing its plans to pursue a policy of joining the European Union and NATO , the Georgian Dream has also professed a more conciliatory approach towards ...
Reuters. May 11, 2024 at 6:29 PM. About 50,000 opponents of a “foreign agents” bill marched peacefully in heavy rain through the Georgian capital on Saturday, after the United States said the ...
May 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday condemned a move by the parliament in the South Caucasus state of Georgia to override a presidential veto of a bill on ...