"I'm angry": Georgia's proposed "foreign agents" law sparks mass protests in Tbilisi
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
- In Georgia, protests have erupted over a proposed law requiring organizations with foreign funding to register their activities with the government. Critics compare the bill to similar legislation used to silence opposition groups in Russia. Thousands of Georgians marched through the capital, Tbilisi, on Sunday to voice their opposition to the bill, with opposition parties and civil society groups calling for mass protests against its expected passage.
"There are hundreds of such NGOs who have done so much good for Georgia and now they face being stigmatized and possibly shut down," protester Nika Shurgaia said.
"I’m angry and I’m sad," another protestor said.
The bill must pass three readings in parliament to become law, as well as overcome a veto by Georgia's figurehead president, who opposes it. If passed, the draft law would require organizations receiving more than 20 per cent of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents" or face fines.
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Thank God we have no such laws in Canada where foreign agents can interfere at will. LOL
Why is revealing the truth undemocratic?
All kinds of funding that go to opposition parties, media, or any other independent entities are already revealed and available for everyone to see what comes from where. What the Georgian government tries to do is weaponize it and back it by law to limit or completely shut down any funding to any organizatios that go against their interests. Hence why it is referred to as Russian Law. Similar law that exist in Russia limiting free speech, free media, etc.
This is a CIA protests 😂😂😂😂😂😂
of course.
lol
Bravo Giorgia Stop toxic NGO !
This is absurd and unnatural for citizens to do of their own accord. This doesn't benefit them or their country. The only reason there would be protests against foreign agents registering is if the foreign agents are organizing the protests.
I am Georgian and i agree with you 100%. These people does represent only agents in Georgia and not the Georgian people as a whole.
@@christian78478the UK, USA have the same law, and nobody is protesting. Obviously it's a euromaidan
Another Ukraine sindrome
Why shouldn’t they have to report that?
This law has nothing to do with transparency or income disclosure. Organizations already report their funding sources to the revenue service. Anyone can check them. Government just wants to slander opponents as "foreign agents" and bankrupt critical civil society organizations ahead of elections, that's what this law is about.
All kinds of funding that go to opposition parties, media, or any other independent entities are already reported and available for everyone to see what comes from where. What the Georgian government tries to do is weaponize it and back it by law to limit or completely shut down any funding to any organizatios that go against their interests. Hence why it is referred to as Russian Law. Similar law that exist in Russia limiting free speech, free media, etc. It's not about reporting but rather controlling.
But the USA has a law like that too... Could also call it the America law .
If you want to have a Foreign Agent Registration Act in a nation where the United States is the foreign actor, then you must be a 'Kremlin stooge'. So goes the argument. It would be a lot more difficult for the U.S. to meddle in foreign countries if the people receiving the money from the U.S. had to disclose it to their citizens.
There is dictatorship in Russia and also the government is establishing a dictatorship in Georgia, also its not fair to compare usa ans russia
Its no brainer that usa leftists organisation is behind this protest, this bill is great, it will crack down on those so-called NGO s that paddles foreign interest inside your country.
Seeing this protest you can imagine what kind gripe those foreign organisation has on the population. Its really a disaster for national interest.
I wish india also apply this kind of bill too.
Why is it so bad to know who funds all these NGOs, groups and organisations?
All Foreign Agents need to be banned.
Every country needs Hong Kong's brillant new National Security Law.
United we stand, divided we fall
All kinds of funding that go to opposition parties, media, or any other independent entities are already public and available for everyone to see what comes from where. What the Georgian government tries to do is weaponize it and back it by law to limit or completely shut down any funding to any organizatios that go against their interests. Hence why it is referred to as Russian Law. Similar law that exist in Russia limiting free speech, free media, etc.
@@lukasilagadze27 The funding of NGOs and Think Tanks is not available. Since u're pro west the US has legislation that limit foreign influence like FARA.
@@lukasilagadze27 They are just mouth breathing let um share lil man.
@@ramatgan1 FARA legislation does not apply to partner countries
Why is it possible to have such a law in the USA but not in Georgia?..
USA has Foreign Agent Registration Act. I think every country should have a FARA, especially Georgia.
Bro, the USA and Georgia have different governments, if the US government protects their interests, then in Georgia, a large part of the government is controlled by Russia. The Foreign Agents Act effectively prohibits people from speaking out against the government. This law, which government want to got in Georgia, will increase the powers of the authorities and destroy freedom of speech. If you don't believe, read Georgian news and scandals related to their government
@@user-ko7be6dm3m
All activities and funding must be declared if any:
- undertaken by individuals or organizations under control to a foreign government, or of organizations or persons outside of the country.
- or if it acts at the "order, request or control" to a government or organizations or persons outside the country, or of persons who are controlled or subsidized to a large extent by a foreign entity.
This is Foreign Agent Registration Act.
Does Georgia's FARA looks like this?
@@user-ko7be6dm3mUS government protect American interest? Funny
@@jamilm4668I know right lol people have such delusions about America when they haven’t lived in it
@@jamilm4668 And doesn't the US government protect the interests of citizens? Yes, of course there are problems with illegal immigrants and robberies, but look at the other side. The US government and organizations are funding hundreds of startups and supporting new organizations. Unlike some countries, they do not come and take away people's business. I have friends from the USA, Europe and Asia, they live in the USA and build their business there, donate funds to charitable institutions and help the United States develop. Yes, of course they have their common problems, but they have faith in the future
Ah! freedom of Speech
Ah! Human Rights,
Ah! Democracy .Ah! freedom of Speech
Ah! Human Rights,
Ah! Democracy .
😅😅😅😅 they have it,,.. don't need bederast
Full support to Georgians, love from the UK.🇬🇧
So do you protest your country law too? Since you have the same laws that they used to ban Russian media? 🤔
I guess Russia is going to have to “defend” itself from Georgia
Be careful what your wishing for
Canada 🇨🇦 needs to consider the following steps to minimize Chinese interference:
- limiting the number of diplomatic and consular officials (spies) allowed in Canada,
- closing down the Toronto and Vancouver consulates,
*- creating a foreign agent registry making foreign interference a crime,*
- closing down Beijing’s “police stations,"
- canceling "sister city" programs with China,
- closing down all Confucius institutes,
- Banning United Front Work and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office operatives *from entry to Canada.*
For the millionth time, this law has nothing to do with transparency or income disclosure. Organizations already report their funding sources to the revenue service. Anyone can check them. Government just wants to slander opponents as "foreign agents" and bankrupt critical civil society organizations ahead of elections, that's what this law is about.
SAY WHAT ARE WE ALLOWED FOREGIGN FUNDING? LMAO I THINK MOST COUNTRIES ALREADY DO THIS
Oh I clicked because I thought they said “foreign accents law”.
The UK has a similar law in the form of the National Security Act
🇬🇪 Georgia 👍🏻
Every country in Europe has similar laws as well as the US.
No they don't. BTW how's that "three days special military operation" in Ukraine coming along Russian?😂😂
@@bobwoods1302 Ask Mark Milley about that.
yeah that was used back in 20th century to fight back nazis and soviets
Do USA citizens even believe the law is real?
@@bobwoods1302Russia never said it would take 3 days. The person who said it was general Millie who is retired now and Ukraine is an embarrassment for the US and NATO. Macron wanted to send troops to Ukraine, he will find out soon enough what it means to fight against a real army and not a bunch of sheepherders.
…making sure if we see something we’re still supposed to say something!
“Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020
“Makes me feel human again after this place.” - Oklahoma City Art Museum review after life in the local shelters (20+ years in the making), 2024
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂
Strength to the Georgians! At first, the Russians did not understand the full power of this law and regretted it.😢
With love from Russia
Georgians and Russians have great shared History:
1. Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti became part of the Russian Empire in 1801 AD.
2. Kingdom of Imereti became part of the Russian Empire in 1810 AD.
3. Principality of Guria became part of the Russian Empire in 1829 AD.
4. Principality of Svaneti became part of the Russian Empire in 1857 AD.
5. Principality of Abkhazia became part of the Russian Empire in 1864 AD.
6. Principality of Mingrelia became part of the Russian Empire in 1867 AD.
Georgians in the Russian tsarist army and in the government are a topic for special study. In total, during the existence of the Russian Empire, there were a few thousand generals in the Russian army, of which 380 generals were Georgians by nationality. In addition to generals, a similar percentage is observed among officers. As for ordinary soldiers of Georgian origin, by the beginning of the twentieth century there were tens of thousands of them, with a total number of 5 million soldiers in the tsarist army. In the 21st century, in Russia, there are 190 indigenous ethnic groups. In the Russian Empire, there were more indigenous ethnic groups, but only 4 of them were in the highest government. The generals and governors of the provinces of the Russian Empire were 4 main nationalities: Russians (also Ukrainians and Belarusians), Germans, Georgians and Armenians.
More than 200 local ethnic groups lived in the Russian Empire (which existed from 1721 to 1917). The Russian Empire was ruled by princely families. The total number of such promoted lineages in the empire was 235. Of these, 139 were from other ethnic groups, and 96 were Georgian princely lineages - They were from the Georgian former independent 6 states (Kartl-Kakheti, Imereti, Guria, Samegrelo, Svaneti and Abkhazia). This means that 40% of the princely families of the Russian Empire were of Georgian origin.
The Russian Empire had 380 Georgian generals from 1698 to 1917. In 1917, the transitional government had 21 Georgian generals and the Soviet Union had 126 Georgian generals. This Georgian generalship helped the Russian Empire in hundreds of battles, as well as thousands of Georgian officers and hundreds of thousands of Georgian ordinary soldiers, privates. The Russian Empire was saved from Napoleon by the Georgian general Peter Bagration (whom Napoleon called the most worthy opponent among the Russian generals of that time). For this merit, the Russian emperor erected a monument to Bagration in the Borodino Valley.
Stalin and Beria were also among the 126 Georgian generals of the Soviet Union, who created Russia's space program, the atomic bomb, atomic energy (granted the Soviet Union complete energy-independence), made all 15 republics of the Soviet Union fully industrialized, ended the hunger strike that had been taking place in every 10 years in most of the territory of Russia and the Soviet Union in general. They created a military, scientific, economic base, the strongest intelligence and special services, such as the KGB, and turned the Soviet Union into a superpower, which was one of the rulers of the bipolar world together with the USA, and Russia and the Russian nation still enjoy their power today. The Russians were saved along with the other 124 Georgian generals from Hitler's invasion and enslavement (more than 300 thousand Georgian privates also died in the WW2).
Every fifth person from Georgia was conscripted to the front of the Second World War - 700 thousand Georgians out of 3.5 million inhabitants of the Soviet Republic of Georgia. About every second did not return home. 300,000 Georgian fighters fell in battle while defending their homeland.
In total, during the existence of the USSR (1922-1991), the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to 12,777 people (for military, scientific, entrepreneurial and sports special merits). 95 women were awarded the title. A total of 1038 ethnically Georgian citizens of the Soviet Union received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. This means that every tenth hero in the Soviet Union was an ethnic Georgian. Georgians received the title of hero 5 times more often than representatives of other Soviet ethnic groups.
The Soviet Union was a Georgian-Russian empire. The Soviet Union was founded by four cities: Moscow, the capital of the Veliko-Russians, Minsk, the capital of the Belarusians, Kiev, the capital of the Malo-Russians, and Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgians. At the same time, all the main foundations of the Soviet Union were built by the Georgian elite that created this superpower. "The single individual, who played the biggest role in creating the military-industrial complex in Russia was a Georgian man Sergo Orjonikidze (Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze), who was the people's Commissar of heavy industries in the 1930's. He was apparently a brilliant manager and he played absolutely key role in organizing of the creation of the military-industrial complex of Russia." - Alexander Mercouris Sergo Orjonikidze became a symbol of the industrialization carried out in the territory of the Soviet Union in general, that is why hundreds of towns, villages and districts were named after him throughout the Soviet Union. and 12 districts, villages and towns in Georgia.
P.S. Probably, Peter I, the founder of the Russian Empire, was Bagration, since he was the son of Prince Erekle I Bagration of Kartli and Queen of Russia Natalia Naryshkina (if genetic research is carried out, everything will be clarified in the end).
Peter I was the last tsar and first emperor of Russia, a giant and a genius. He occupied the royal throne in 1682, at the age of 10. The name of the young king is associated with the implementation of large-scale reforms in Russia and the expansion of the territories of the Russian kingdom.
In 1721, Peter I became the first emperor of the Russian Empire. He abolished the Russian kingdom and announced the creation of a new superpower - the Russian Empire on November 2, 1721. He was interested in studying science and studying Western European achievements and implementing them in his country. After a one-year trip to Western Europe, he introduced European customs and lifestyle to Russia, and the era of great reforms, reconstruction and enlightenment began in Russia.
bravo Georgia!
Why? It is the same as the USA Foreign Agent Registration Act.
Elon Musk enjoys. Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General visited the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze. The visit is having an effect. Destabilize those who are quiet. Another NATO playground, seeling guns
Thanks for supporting the Palestinian people Almighty God bless you
How can their future be in Europe, when they are not in Europe? Georgia is in Asia, it's an Asian country. Why does the EU want to expand in Asia. I know that Russia it's trying to rebuild an empire, but I see the EU it's trying to do the same.
Eto grusinam reshatj a ne wam.
Georgia is considered a transcontinental nation. Part of it lies in Eastern Europe, and part of it lies in Asia.
wow
Why don't you show what people said to this gay parade activists today on may 17 2024. This is a real Georgian's response to the world, europe and USA. We won't you rule us as you like. We are independent and respect our identity and independence. We never become your slaves.🎉
Eropa dengan Rusia berkecamuk dalam tugas negara kerjaan intelejen AS pun memiliki undang undang bahkan Rusia punya segalanya pengalaman di bidang intelijen negara
Time is coming
NED
Нет законам путина
Say No To Russia..
it's a LAW that ask the NGO's to reveal the sources of their funding...
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA.
pack it up pack it in
goodbye Putin
This is the world we are living in 😢
Do not give up on democracy. Good luck.
You don’t want to be in Europe either because it will be no better than Russia. Go independent, stand on your own w/o feet, negotiate deals of commerce with free EUROPE Like Britain, America (north and south) and Africa. Europe would strangle you.
This is why you don't want to lose a war to Russia. Most of the commenters on global are foreign agents as well😂
As are you.
Georgia thanks for helping Russia.
ამერიკა სატანაა
To who ? Russia .
It would be cool if we created a human-made mycorrhizal network to ensure a basic standard of living so we could climb the Kardashev Scale sooner. A hyper democratic system to ensure all of humanity's cultural perpetuity.
Удачи вам еврапейцы😂😂