Western powers are threatening Georgia over its new "foreign agents law," opposed by the US, EU, and NATO, which mandates that organizations receiving significant foreign funding disclose their donors, sparking widespread protests and political turmoil.
The political situation that Georgia is currently experiencing is getting worse. The ruling party of the tiny country is under fire from the US and its European allies for recently overcoming the veto of the president to enact a "foreign agents' law."
Washington and Brussels are against the bill, which mandates that organizations that obtain 20 percent or more of their funding from outside disclose who their funders are. It has sparked weeks of protests in Tbilisi supported by the West, during which protesters have praised the US, the EU, and Ukraine as the epitome of democracy and emancipation and criticized the government for being "Russian slaves."
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