The Weekend Intelligence: Georgia... the day after tomorrow

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

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Summary

The introduction of a’ foreign agent law’ has become a popular tactic among those with autocratic tendencies. Activists in Georgia, who oppose the introduction of such a law, refer to theirs as “the Russian law”. They see it as moving their country closer to Putin, and away from the West.

Last week, as Georgia’s parliament prepared to vote on the law, Heidi Pett travelled to Tbilisi, the capital, to meet opposition leaders and find out why they are so afraid. What she discovered was a group being beaten, bruised, and left worried for their personal freedom—wondering, once the dust settles, what the day after tomorrow will bring.

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1:21.4	entities, notionally keeping domestic politics domestic.
1:25.4	But in Georgia the law on transparency of foreign influence put forward by the ruling
1:31.3	Georgian Dream Party has caused is still causing chaos.
1:37.0	The story goes back more than a year when it was just a draft circulating around Parliament. A scuffle broke out. a enormous protests outside parliament, with plenty of opposition politicians in attendance.
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