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TBILISI, Georgia. March 6th, 2023. The opposition Russo-phobic party leader in the Black Sea country of Georgia, Levan Khabeishvili, called for “revolutionary changes” three times in a recent speech, before calling for the people to be “mobilized to fight… otherwise we will become a province of Russia”. | The backdrop to the speech has been demonstrations by several large youth groups, NGOs, and political parties in opposition to the strangest of political trigger words one will ever read, “a proposed foreign agent registration bill”. Nearly all countries on Earth have a foreign agent registration requirement, with few more draconian than the United States’. Their role in a democracy is unquestionably an important one: that organizations operating in the political, societal, or media sectors funded by foreign governments need to make that information available on a publically-managed database. Not only is it standard practice in America for foreign lobbyists to register their activities, benefactors, and presence with US intelligence, but the Georgian draft legislation is actually a milder copy of the US Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Yet in Georgia, the parliament’s attempts to force a bill creating such a program into law has been met with the staunchest opposition. US State Dept. Spokesman Ned Price told a reporter that 💬 “such a law…does not correspond to [what] we, the United States, aim to be Georgia’s partners and help them achieve this future.”
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