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Clashes in Tbilisi continues over "foreign influence" bill
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/world/europe/georgia-protests.html
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Security forces clashed with protesters in Georgia’s capital on Wednesday night after the Eastern European nation’s Parliament advanced controversial new legislation that has ignited weeks of demonstrations.
Critics say that one aim of the new bill, which they call “the Russian law,” is to align Georgia, a former Soviet country of 3.6 million, more closely with Moscow.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, expressed “great concern” over the situation on Wednesday and condemned the violence on the streets of Tbilisi.
The government — which has been led by Georgian Dream since 2012 — says the bill is aimed at making foreign funding more transparent and was modeled on an American law dating to 1938 and other similar measures passed or proposed by other Western countries.
This time, the party appears determined to push it through Parliament, even though legislators will most likely have to override a veto by the country’s president, Salome Zourabichvili.
Ms. Zourabichvili, whose duties are largely ceremonial in Georgia’s parliamentary system, was endorsed by Georgian Dream when she was elected in 2018, but she has since become a fierce critic of the governing party.
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