Lawmakers for the ruling Georgian Dream party in that country announced on Thursday they would “unconditionally withdraw” a bill that would designate organizations receiving more than 20 percent of funding abroad as foreign agents, responding to violent, incessant protests in Tbilisi, which continued after the withdrawal announcement.
On Wednesday night, Tbilisi experienced ongoing violence, including clashes between protesters and police and the vandalizing of cars, flipped over and left in the middle of the street:
Opponents of the “foreign agent” bill argue that its language is too similar to a law passed in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and accuse Georgian Dream of attempting to “Russify” the country. Georgia endured a brutal invasion by Putin in 2008 that has left its political scene deeply scarred and…
