'Foreign agent' bill: Has it caused damage to Georgia's ties with the EU? | DW News
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- In Georgia, the ruling party has dropped a controversial “foreign agent” bill following two nights of violent clashes between police and protesters.
But despite the U-turn, thousands continue to rally in the capital Tblisi. They fear the government wants to put Georgia on a path towards authoritarianism - and away from its goal of joining the European Union.
The draft echoed a Russian law used to silence critics - and protesters vow to resist what they call government attempts to drag the country back under the Kremlin’s influence. DW Correspondent Maria Katamadze is in Tbilisi
Georgia formally applied for EU membership less than two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Viola von Cramon in Brussels, is a member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party and brings in the European perspective.
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Stand up for your democracy, Georgians!! Stand together against fascism!!
Fascism, communism, feudalism - even a democracies with enough misguided citizens can be oppressive.
Stand against any oppressive leadership that doesn't respects basic rights like freedom of speech.
CIA can basically fund the entire media on every country to push their agenda. Western push for a unipolar world will be the end of this world.
Democracy 😂🤣
Reminder that fascism doesn't have a monopoly on authoritarianism......
@@hasithakumarasiri8343 Bot commenter playbook: anything associated with the west "🤣🤣😂".
Support for people of Georgia 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇪
The next 👉🇬🇪🐀 devastated by politics
When a foreign agents bill causes outrage, it shows a lot of the protesters ate literally foreign agents.
Protest signs in English, now that's for us, the Western viewers!! Cheers Georgia!!
ALL my respect and love to the integrity and determination of the Georgian people!!!!! THANK YOU for standing up for democracy in these difficult times!!!! ❤💫🕊 Erika, Finland
Will be turned in to second Ukraine
@@pavelkazmin_rus naxui.
@@pavelkazmin_rus democracy is more than 1000x better than ANY Authoritarian or dictatorship regime, for more than 1 million reasons.
@@pavelkazmin_rus So what is the alternative?
@@pavelkazmin_rus says the putler loving fascist 😂🤣
So what did the bill say? I have to dislike this video... Not a single menction of what the bill is about, only a lot of sensationalism with the things like "People is getting ignored" and "Russia bad, russia is influencing". Very bad journalism.
This is fantastic Georgia
Dear people of Georgia, Ukraine and Ukrainians are with you! You are great guys who don't stay silent, and most importantly, you act. I wish you great success in fighting for your rights, your freedom. 🇺🇦❤🇬🇪
The funny part is that we has a foreign Agent law here in the USA.
Ukraine lost its freedom when it became a western puppet state. Now millions are dying because of the greed of Kyiv regime and Biden administration
I am here in Tbilisi taking part in this demonstration. Our Government is pro-Russian but they will be over soon. Georgian people will never be willing to get back to the USSR and we need stronger support from the EU. We had a devastating war with Russia in 2008 but the support we got was not enough. EU continued “business as usual” with Russia and didn’t support us as much as they could (same happened in Ukraine in 2014), which was a big mistake. It ended with frustration on pro-western government at the time, but people didn’t intentionally elect the pro-Russian party as they didn’t initially reveal themselves as pro-Russian. We help Ukrainian people in war, our soldiers fight there against Russia, 85 % of Georgians support pro-western perspective, we deserve to be the part of EU and NATO, but we have to do our homework first. That’s exactly what we are doing right here and right now.
Glory to Georgia, Glory to Ukraine ✊🏻
Take care guys!
What part of this law was problematic? Can't u people ask goverment to use the equivalent of UK or USA law for registration of foriegn agents? It does remind me of 2104 Ukraine, but there USA was very active and even among protesters 😅
Perfect time to do it! Fight! And stay strong!
I wouldn’t suggest opening fire on South Ossetia again.
@@rouz0 The draft law was designed to fight the NGO-s. The hidden objective was not to fight foreign adversaries but to weaken whole civil institutions, minimize “problems” in upcoming 2024 parliamentary elections and potentially rig it. As for your question, no, we can’t as nobody listens what we need. It is not Great Britain or the USA :)
The Brutal Agressive Force Of Russia, Has To Be Stopped. It Takes Courage To Hold On To Democracy And Freedom. Blessings To The Georgian People. 🇬🇧
Even in the USA there is a law on foreign agents so that no one from the outside influences the minds of Americans, but in Georgia the law did not pass - it was possible to influence Georgia. It turns out that Georgia is a free country (without personal opinion), but there is no freedom in America?
@@Dirtmiy You will not hear this in the mainstream media.
@@Dirtmiy Ok bot. Time to unplug your cable.
@@Dirtmiy the proposed Georgian law is not the same as the one in the US. The Russian Internet Army purposefully conflates the two.
I had a cringe induced stroke reading this
Always very amazed when grassroots grow. It lights the fire in my heart, when people do not always bear everything. In my own country the people had been conditioned so well, that nobody goes on the streets for things that would be important. People would have a bad conscience and be ashamed. By our public protesters are also more seen as asocial, not normal, enemies of the society and get treated like that from others who would even benefit. This is really bad. I try to believe that in the end the good will always have the upper hand over the evil. Also in Georgia
This definitely has Putin’s stamp on this. They are wise to stay vigilant because to say that leaving it on the agenda to get voted down is the same as dropping it. That is a lie straight from the Kremlins play book. Thank God the Russians are busy with their military in Ukraine but they are still stirring up trouble in Moldova also and have plans for Belarus. Putin has to be stopped and now having a Warrant for his arrest by the ICC for war crimes will isolate him further and maybe give hope of the Russian military overthrowing him. He needs to be weakened because XI Jinping is coming to Russia for an official visit and now is a good time for China to coordinate an attack on the US prior to attacking Taiwan. Russia already feels that the war in Ukraine is an attack by the US. Unfortunately the arming of Ukraine is probably a attack by Nato because it’s clear to them if not stopped, Russia is going to continue “annexing” European countries next to it for “security” reasons.
this is not going to stop with dropping the bill, MAIDAN REVOLUTION IN GEORGIA From Vancouver Canada we are with a democratic Pro EU and NATO Georgia.
Isn't your prime minister getting wedgies from Xi? Don't bother. Canada is an embarrassment. Just call yourself American, all the funny people from Canada that I would care about is in America anyway.
Hooray for the Georgian citizens! I'd be holding up that sign, "Never Back to the USSR" too if I were Georgian! Enough with these hard line authoritarian governments, we need freedom, democracy, rights, and fair elections everywhere.
The true representation of people is inside the parliament not on the streets ...historically most of the protests have been proved to be politically motivated and staged by vested interests or political opponents.
Do you think USA has all the basic rights, free elections and democracy the very things you are talking about.
@@aban2423 Not exactly, but we're a work in progress as well. We do have good election processes, but often tainted officials running for office due to the influence of money. But we are working on campaign finance reform, we need to limit lobbying and influence peddling, and end the quid pro quo. We do have freedom of speech and of expression, but a press that's largely owned by a few owners, with one that's a particularly odious character. But you can speak freely, vote, presidents have term limits, and no former president is in prison being fed gruel. We here too need improvements in our rights, that goes without saying, but Georgians are trying to right a ship that is listing heavily, they're in a fight to save their democracy, or resurrect it.
@@chuckkottke But let me first ask you
Why do you and other people out there always think that we need to speak freely. First of all why do you always need to think like that? You do not always need to speak up. There are certain countries I know of in middle East where people spoke up to an extent that they destroyed their own nation.
@@aban2423 are you serious
It's Now or Never, for yourself and future generations. Never give up the fight!
God Bless from the United States. 🇺🇲
Isnt that a good thing to increase transparency? They need to declare who is their financial donators?
That is not “russian law” that is american law
Not to the thousands of paid actors the us and allies has in Georgia. Do you never read the CIAS coup papers?
Why wouldn't you want to know where money is coming from. Particularly if it can influence a country or government
Is the re something wrong with being open and transparent
It is not only about that.
If I am a establish a organisation observing election fraud or corruption.
They could just Arrest me and call me a spy
@@sH-ed5yf It is not a *job* of 'established' Foreign entity to look over a nation's election
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Where does it say that is what they want to do.
Its about registering , if more than a certain % of your money comes from outside of the country. Stop lying.
@@markharcourt2214 I agree with you
I am responding to @s H
He is claiming it might hinder US/EU sponsored entity to report 'biased' election
@@markharcourt2214 I'm assuming that you are not a Russian troll, so let me try to explain the context. If my assumption is right, then I'll also assume that since you commented under this video, you probably at least know that Russia has occupied 20% of Georgia and is opposing its sovereignty and freedom to choose its political course. This draft law, which fortunately failed, had nothing to do with openness and transparency, and it was completely irrelevant to initiate it in the current political situation. NGOs in Georgia are very transparent about where their funding is coming from, and this information is open to all. Many of them are funded by US and European donors. Moreover, government agencies receive funding from these same donors to implement different projects. Integration into EU and NATO, which is a choice of 80% of Georgian citizens, is a goal that is enshrined in the Constitution of Georgia, and so is the Government's obligation to do everything possible to achieve this goal. The Government is harshly criticized by pro-western Georgian NGOs and media because of insufficient effort for Euro-integration, advocating the interests of one oligarch rather than that of the people, and many other reasons. The point of this draft law was to exert control by the Government over these organizations and to try to discredit them by labeling them as "agents of foreign influence". Also, there is a parallel with what ultimately happened in Russia after the same law was adopted. The EU officials have sent a clear message that this law would not contribute to Georgia's Euro-integration. The Government would not heed and continued to sabotage the country's pro-western course, and only backed down because of massive street protests. The disappointment of the Georgians' resistance against this draft law expressed by Russian officials and media already says a lot. On the other hand, there are not so transparent organizations and political entities operating in Georgia spreading the pro-Kremlin narrative, and it would indeed be interesting to know where their money is coming from. But the Geo government does not seem to be too much concerned about them. Just on the contrary, it uses these radical groups to oppose pro-western organizations.
Another memory recall for me in this democratic movement, people born to be free. Support from a Hongkonger, even we got silence in the public. Fight for freedom.
Yes history has not been kind to the Hong Kong people. I'm British and just wish there was another way to have kept you all away from the CCCP safely.
@@Scaleyback317 CCP influences have already spread around the world, and their economic success didn't grow together with human rights or any making political changes. Technology advances help the totalitarian regime rule people, it is hard to imagine a free, vibrant, and trendy city turning like that. Honestly, Hong Kong is no longer Hong Kong, and it is turning into another China city. It is a wake-up call for all democratic countries. Freedom is not free.
@@ericyuen5946 Thank you for your candid reply. I am so sorry we had no other choice but to leave Hong Kong to its inevitable and foreseeable fate. It is not shame I feel - we had no other choice, it is just a deep sorrow and a sense of loss. I cannot begin to imagine how many Hong Kong folk feel about it. I wish you well because I have nothing else to offer you.
@@Scaleyback317 It is totally not your fault, and don't feel sorry about that. The fate of Hong Kong was determined by the former politicians, including the older generation in Hong Kong, they are the ones who enjoyed the success of the golden era of British Hong Kong, but did not treasure it. That’s why Ukrainians and Georgians are fighting for a better future for their future generations.
Another riot coup, CIA and NED works.
Can someone explain how denying foreign agent's influence mainly from US/EU are authoritarian?
EU money is tied to rule of law, so it reduces the authoritarian influence and increases democracy
I don't think there is much influence from US/EU....
And young Georgians hate Russia (because Russia is occupieing a part of Georgia) and those people felt that the law is too similar to the law Russia introduced a year ago
Freedom for Georgian from Vietnam 🇻🇳🤝🇬🇬🤝🇺🇦🧚♂️💪
Good job Georgia 🇬🇪
Seems rolling back the law and listening to the people speaks louder than the idea being proposed.
The protestors are doing a good job and it appears their government is listening.
That's how it's supposed to work.
Love from Dallas, Texas 💙
They'll continue to try and roll this through on the QT.
Fair play to the protesters though, they know what's at stake.
This will turn to second Ukraine
But it is very ironic coming from a Texan. You don't have this much amount of freedom in the US. If you were not happy with Joe Biden even if you protested there nothing would make him resign
@@jevgenijs39 Georgia has already been invaded and suffers occupation.
This is a good time for them to set themselves right for the coming generations.
@@EdjieboaNova how do they suffer?
People have the power 👏
Chinese people?
Georgian law on foreign agents is equal to the US law FARA
@Mariami Dani In America, the law is worse. they put them in jail for 5 years.
The struggle that Georgia is going through now, and the fight that they have to win the second time is a result of western society's inability to protect Georgia from 2008 Russian aggression, and in fact denial and impotence against the threats Russia held against a new born democracies. This forced the current governing party to take a very careful, defensive and sometimes, "favoring Russia" stance in order to survive in this harsh environment. This of course can not be used as an excuse for the government but as for people, the western society is clearly to be blamed on the struggles of what the Georgian society is going through now. Closing eyes on Russia invading Georgia is exactly what motivated Putin to do the same in Ukraine. Impotence and delayed support is exactly the fuel Putin runs on. Georgia and Ukraine must be accepted in EU ASAP.
Ha.Ha.Ha. Georgia is a failed state. You can't even rule yourselves without the USSR, EU or US.
Good point! Western governments are famous at dithering on issues that are arbitrary to them until it hits close to home. We seem to be perfectly capable of inflicting harm on various countries around the world, but I'm not detracting from your point. I only wish we were involved in pro-democratic actions like these rather than the imperialistic garbage we get so often wrapped up in in the Middle East and Latin America. It makes us hypocrites.
Ukraine's acceptance into the EU would result in a direct military conflict with NATO and by default the United States. While acceptance would be great for Ukraine, it would be very antagonizing for Russia, they would have NATO forces at their front door.
The United States objected to the same tactic when the former USSR tried to use Cuba as a missile base. While I myself am a US citizen, I can certainly understand Russia's concern. The alarming lack of diplomacy all around is reminiscent of the two great conflicts o the previous century.
@@dim2389 Technically it's in Europe at least partly. Europe is divided from Asia (Iran) by the Caucasus Mountains.
Proud of you guys.
Interesting, thanks.
Wish we’d see more Russians do this
Do what? Protest in favor of joining snobbish white privilege club called the EU?
They're way too apathetic
Pretty tough to do when you can catch a 10+ year bid for simply for voicing that you disagree with the "SMO".
The people still in Russia who know what's up aren't political and know that they are fine so long as they keep ignoring the situation.
So long as Muscovites can go to work, provide for their family and switch off the TV, they'll sleep fine - just like we did when we went to war in Iraq over some phony baloney.
Never. They're slaves.
what do you mean by more Russians? Georgians are not Russians and you should phrase your sentences more carefully
Stay strong Georgians. Unity is a very powerful thing. It was definitely a huge mistake to ignore Georgia in 2008.
Short memory 2003-2008
Well done to all clever and brave heart ❤Georgians for speaking out for the sake of peace for today and tomorrow 🙏🙏🙏❤️Communities with freedom and liberty has happy people who are free to experience and celebrate life within his/her country and abroad 🇬🇧🇵🇭
I remember when Georgia started the war back in 08 opening with a massive rocket artillery barrage on the ethnic Russian civilian residents of Tskinvali ruthlessly destroying the main town of South Ossetia slaughtering hundreds of innocent people. Then it was like seeing angels coming from heaven when Russian federation armed forces went through the Roki tunnel and smashed the Georgian troops chasing them out. They were infact too lenient, they should have taken the tiny remaining trip to Tbilisi and ended the mad dog tie-eating Shakashvili once and for all.
I am against the civilians targets but their military operation was justified!!! Their land inside Georgian international recognized borders! And Russian military operation is inside Ukraine's borders. Learn the difference. But you're probably Russian.
@@javanava8925I'm not Russian. Georgia lost the right to rule South Ossetia the moment it began a genocide on its own citizens. Russia has an obligation to protect ethnic Russians in neighbouring countries.
This just says how georgians dislike Russian. People of Russia should think why their country being dislike by their neighnors.
Glory to Georgia!
So people voted in party who said that it is pro-EU in words but turned not that it is not pro-EU in works?
Yes
It's when I see what happens, in this authoritarian countries, that I really see how lucky I am, to be born in Germany and now live in France, where we have democracy !😱
Btw Bonjour de France les amis and take care of you guys ✌😉👍🇫🇷
Does the US law allowed political parties sponsored by foreign agents?
The US is doing the same to Georgia just like it did Ukraine in 2014, Georgia may have similar fate to Ukraine, think about it
I think this is a good law. All it does it alert people to who is funding news agencies
It is already known. This law targets civil society and government can use it against whom they want, when they want. There is no protection for many organizations without democratic institutions.
@@geoguy29 Hahaha no most countries and all Western countires have these laws. Its about reducing foreign interference as much as you can, tacking where money is coming from and too. The NGOs dont like these laws for a reason ha
@@yagsipcc287 obviously you didn’t read this law. It’s the Russian version of the law. If you don’t see the difference, then you must be supporting Russia.
@@geoguy29 haha clearly you don't know anything about foreign agent laws also "Russia's version" is the same as the US version and very similar to most if not all European countries 🤣🤣 maybe learn about the same subject. The whole thing here about the "protests" were very inorganic done by NGOs very common (in my country we might have the most NGOs per population % to almost everywhere else) the "Protests" also does off very fast common with NGO set ups. EU and US didn't like these laws as they have alot of their guys in there set up as NGOs and other groups. Same bs different day.
@@yagsipcc287 sorry, I think you don’t make any sense.
Get that party out of power!
@vix altaris monumentum monstrantum that's what I said bub.
the disrupter ME.. IM BACK
This is no accident. How many coups did the CIA organize? The last one was in Ukraine, we can see the result now. Oliver Stone, The Oscar winner, "Ukraine on fire" recommanded!
The US is not interested in Georgia
The last CIA coup, was not in Ukraine, that coup was 9 years ago.
Maidan II
So let me get this straight: the EU is against a bill that would oblige parties to disclose if they are foreign funded?
You still aren't getting it straight. Maybe you should just give up and play in your own league.
Please show me the proof that the EU said that
Looks like EU "NGOs" were working fulltime
I also hope it cuts unregulated secretive funding of EU or Russia.
EU funding is tied to the rule of law and is strictly for infrastructure. The Russian money goes directly to the politicians pockets
So please tell me the names of EU NGOs working in Georgia.....
Never back to THE KGB URSS
It has been such a long and truly sad time the last hundred years where Russia is to blame for a lot of horrific behaviors. The leaders of the free western world clearly hasn't done enough, just like some odd 80 years ago. I'm kind of amazed though how ignorant the Russians are of the their past and even today. How can they be so confused about why the world seems to be againts them.
What it have to do with Russia?
@@aresnir2725 There you go, You're a prime example.
@@sergueivergounov1961 Nop
@@matsfrommusic example of what? I'm just commenting on UA-cam.
What are u talking about Mr. agent? 😂The law literally exist in most EU countries and USA. If they don't like it and think it is Russian , they can just pass the full USA version of it 😅 it is important that a transparency law exist. They can even get help from EU to adopt law of one of those countries
this same kind of protest happened in ukraine a few years ago, and see what state the country is in now.
Ukraine is 302% larger than Georgia and has 34 Million More inhabitants.
Russia is already occupying a part of Georgia.
Again I'm totally confused... wouldn't this law require all Russian sponsored media to register as foreign agents as well as all the western media? Isn't this more government transparency and not less? There is a lot not being explained here.
Russian money often isn’t registered anywhere and goes directly to politicians pockets, so it won’t be registered. In practice only the EU will have to register
@@fjuvo Well... I'm sure a lot of Russian money is shady. The entire eastern bloc is badly corrupt and Russia might be the worst of them. That being said, western countries sure know how to sneak money around as well. Honestly, this seems like the west is meddling in Georgia's politics and the Russian leaning people don't like it. Sucks for both sides really... they are living in no man's land.
I think it mainly reminded Georgians too much of the Russian law.
It's the exact copy of the USA law. Hong Kong riots. These rioters will destroy Georgia.
You are on a pro us probaganda channel. They lie, people die.
It’s been dropped so the EU had a warning but should remain open-minded to Georgia.
No understanding of the EU membership pathway or the EU. Georgian politicians playing these games will lead to Georgia not joining the EU… and that is the intention. Joining the EU is a process of cooperation and negotiations - working together … and not pretending or actually playing games. If a country behaves like this during the process, other EU vote against them joining. However, that is probably the intention of these pro-Russian politicians (bought by a single oligarch)…
Georgians are far from being Europeans. They are still very religious and bigoted.
How come Georgia's law against foreign interference is a problem? In the US they have similar laws.
It seems that more than 60 NGO's in Georgia have said that they will not respect a law against foreign interference through NGO-channels. That could indicate that many of them have more than 20% of their funding coming from abroad. Not exactly 'democracy' built by the people it self.
They don't have similar laws in the US
@@20quid FARA(Foreign Agents Registration Act) made in US
What has the US got to do with this? It's about Europe and Georgia.
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 If you think FARA is in any way similar, you need to learn how to read and not just listen to trolls. FARA is for lobbyists that act on BEHALF of a foreign government.
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 - "ARA(Foreign Agents Registration Act) made in US"
If you actually read the US law, you see that it's clearly different.
Georgians dont mind foreign interference as long as its US and Europe doing it
Well after what Russia did to them in 2008 maybe yes
Don't understand. If most of the Georgian people are pro EU then why don't they vote in representatives that are pro EU?
The US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities. Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. The FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of FARA.
Funny how the USA has the exact same law
I lose my faith in democracy day by day considering the stupidity of our population.
I don't see what would be wrong by only tracking foreign interest groups and influences in your country.
The US has a similar law since 1938 no one talks there about authoritarianism.
No.....please do not mix the Georgian Government up with the people of Georgia......surely you watched the protests......this is the Tblisi Spring.......and it WILL be the end of the Russian rule in Georgia.........It does not mean Georgia cannot have relations with Russia but there is no reason for them to not have relations with EU as well. Let Georgians decide on all that.
End Corruption in Georgia 🇬🇪 and
Ukraine 🇺🇦 Power-to-the-People 👏👏👏
Well glory to George all ❤
How many times do we have to go through this before those in charge realize they are only there because the people tolerate them being there - that's how true democracies struggle to be born. Russia is the exception to this and just about any other norm set by society - they have no grasp of the notion of democracy unless it can be enforced by a couple of dozen T72's of course. I hope democracy prevails and those at the head of the Georgian government (no matter how temporarily) do not lead this down the authoritarian path - it has never ended well.
When every norm set by these ,,civilised" societies is bullsh*t ofcourse the russian will not act according to said norms
With Poland and especially Hungary going autocratic , the last thing EU needs is another money pit with dubious political insights..
The ruling party had almost the same ideals as Poland and Hungary: anti-LGBT and exploit EU for what’s worth, while the electorate is broadly pro-EU. Hopefully in the next election in 2024 things will change
Poland is the most pro-EU society in Europe with over 80% supporting EU. the government ‘s actions do not reflect the society. Many youngsters in Poland did not vote in the last elections which resulted in a right wing party getting into power. Hopefully this will be a lesson for next elections.
@@northern_soul hopefully ... but strong stance on UA will probably lift their "strong leadership" standing ?
@Val Perry Coniservative ? I am no leftie but gay free regions? Really? You may be conservative, but you get autocratic when you start fiddling with media and justice.. Hungary is even further down that road..
@Val Perry you can know if you want to know..
The Georgian people deserve fairer representation - representation of the people by the people!
America has laws like that too
Nope
You go to jail if you violate Fara in USA and the Patriot act is the most constricting on the planet. I know because I live here.
Anyone who thinks it's undemocratic please see this and give your thoughts...The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) (22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.) is a United States law that imposes public disclosure obligations on persons representing foreign interests. It requires "foreign agents"-defined as individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign governments, organizations, or persons ("foreign principals")-to register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and disclose their relationship, activities, and related financial compensation.
I thought they ALREADY received official candidate status for the EU?
Their status was rejected. Giving the candidate status without any will to change from the ruling party sets a wrong precedent. Georgia will receive candidate status after necessary reforms (which the ruling party don’t want to do). After the next election in 2024 things might change.
Well then Wikipedia needs to be fixed!!
What EU? Better leave the Titanic before it hits the iceberg. Many will drown.
No, the draft does not imitate a Russian law. It imitates an American law, but nearly all countries have similar laws, where foreign entities contributing to NGO's must declare their contributions. Nothing particularly Russian about that idea.
And exactly the same law in the United States, from which Georgia copied everything, damages relations between the EU and the United States?
Long live to Sakartvelo!!!!!
That`s how democracy is made.
No
Foreign agent bill clearly stop unregulated funding for unidentified group(NGO) by Foreign Nations
Washington did not allow Georgia to become sovereign.
The theory of American exceptionalism is that only the United States has the right to make independent decisions, and all others should exist according to the rules dictated by Washington.
WW1 and WW2 the same starts at EU... Thats history.
Fingerprint of Russian evil everywhere.
格鲁吉亚距离德国有三千多公里
Hahahaha. It was such a dumb proposal. This is not going to harm Tbilisi's efforts to work with the EU. If it had passed and gone into effect and the people were protesting it then maybe. But the protests happened before it was voted on, and the govt recognized the will of the people.
Slava Georgia
We will vote the government out of the parliament soon forever! We have many difficulties and long way to go but the will of Georgian people will win unlike Russia.
Compare that to the apathy in Russia
Ruski fails again 😂
genuinely curious, but what is the bill and what were the consequences of it being passed? i don't feel like they really talked about what the bill was trying to pass and its effects
did you watch the video?
The bill would help government officials silence NGOs and news agencies who depended on foreign investments. The bill would not be controversial if it also included politicians who receive foreign backing but it didn't.
@@khoivo7947 Thats good. What self-respectful country allows foreign funding in media and NGO without declaring them to the regulators? That seems like a recipe for disaster.
@@khoivo7947 why do you want foreign influence in your media & elections?
No hidden funding from anyone be it US/EU or Russia.
@@tony16991 its only allowed for superpowers to do that. not tiny countries.
If Georgian Dream is not georgian's dream, then why are they the ruling party?
Power to the people 🕊️🕊️🕊️
cookies from nuland
Will be shadhlik instead
Do people not realize that if you are supporting these protests, you are not supporting freedom...but you are supporting certain foreign groups around the world to sponsor and fund all types of activities that can destablize the country, economy, and government. And this law first started under the US in 1938, not Russia. By right if anyone supports Georgia's freedom, they should support this law because this law will show all foreign agents who will try to spark any destabilization attempts in Georgia. This just confirms that anyone who supports these protests is obviously a complete wackjob who thinks he knows everything but does not.
Comment 75: Difference of 3:33.
6:35 pm CST
March 9, 2023
Charity Colleen Crouse
Based Georgians!
Why was the label as ‘foreign agent’ a bad thing? Did it also remove some rights ? I mean a 20% founding from a foreign power is potentially bad thing, that’s a lot of control or influence of your party/company. Wish the UK made it clear who was getting such funding.
That working in russia another way boy. I can send you a 1 dollar from abroad and u are "foreign agent" so shut a f up, u dont even know what are u talking about
Yo put it simply, the "peaceful" protestors are the foreign agents.
It’s because it prevents other nations from delivering economic sponsorship to pro-Western NGOs.
Russia is right next door, so regardless of what the law says or doesn’t say, Russian money will pour into he country.
If this law had been passed, then it would have been easy for Russia to take control of nearly all of Georgia’s economy and influence crackdowns on what conservatives there consider “immoral” organizations-like LGBT rights groups.
Georgia will join the EU 🇬🇪🇪🇺
And Putin is a fool.
You don't understand you must go away and study it
It is the law that Putin passed to suppress his people.
So for people who ask "So, it's a good thing if foreign agents have to register in the US, but it's a bad thing if other countries want to do the same thing?" answer: US is different kind of a country. Our country is different. every law should be designed specifically for society and country. laws that work for USA, don't work or aren't needed in other countries. Especially when country's government can't or won't execute it right. we have seen this same law working in Russia, and it resulted in shut down of free media and basically tyranny there. we know that this law won't be executed right here. It's very hard to explain fully what's going on in our country and sadly my English isn't very good to do so, but to be put in easy words: our government, opposition, and basically every politician are very bad people and done very bad things, right now we have Bidzina Ivanishvili ruling the country like it's his own land, he's an oligarch who got his money from Russia, Our third president, Mikheil Saakashvili who was in power before him was also tyrannical, he put people in prision for opposing and tortured them, and before that in 90's we had Eduard Shevardnadze who before that was soviet union's Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his time Georgia was at it's worst, we call it dark 90's, with no electricity, no roads, no nothing actually. the three of them put on a show to put each other in power, fooled Georgian citizens and promised to make Georgia a better country but obviously lied. Now every politician make sure that new political power won't rise here, corruption is at It's best and people are very poor, we have been very divided as a society. people got tired of poverty, of wars, of politicians lying over and over, we don't know who to trust anymore. people have been beaten up for protesting over and over, it's been "divide and rule" basically. What happened couple of days ago is actually a first win against them in a long time, they didn't think we wouldn't get afraid, that we would fight and be as one, because they didn't see it coming from young people who are 13-22 years old and when it comes to their children adults will fight too, even if they're afraid. so that's what happened. government didn't think that we would not leave even if they did their best, and they did their best, if they used more force, they realized that people would get angrier and overthrow them and Europe and US would put sanctions against them so they stopped. Occupation of Abkhazia in 1992-1993 and Samachablo in 2008 by Russia to make sure that we would not be able to join NATO (they did same thing to Ukraine) also has to be mentioned here, and before that soviet union and Russian empire and all that history. which is so long i can't write it here. So this law was something that would make us closer to Russia and far from Europe, and we can't let that happen.
Almost half Georgia is already occupied by Russia they don’t want belong to Russia let them decide don’t interfere…
Wait! The ruling party os not part of the presidency?
No
would be great if the spirit of freedom sweeps down into the russian steppe tbh
Keep going Georgia people. The USA will support you.
Everyone who you support have a war after
US is not interested in Georgia
@@sollte1239 how do you know?
Please to anyone saying America has the same exact law, then what about the same law in Russia that took a turn for worse? The name may be the same however there are key differences in how someone is accused of being foreign agent. While American law is detailed and shows the goal that it's for security measures, there is no exact goal for the Georgian draft while also having definition of the 'foreign agent' blurry to the point that anyone can be accused of being an agent. It's clearly not for transparency measures. If it were so, then our first goal should have been limiting Russia's influence, which is far from what we see...
Yeah 'security' measures Okay
US law is as blurry as this one.
Because it's a Ctrl C + Ctrl V
It's quiet evident which foreign bodies are more angry about the law.
愛子 hates Georgia
Georgia going down the EU path of having less transparency in NGO's in the country.
What they need is a new party not just a massive protest.
New party= NATO=war
The US has the same type of bill what's the problem the people need to know where the money comes from
We do know where the money comes from, everything is already transparent and there is no need of extra laws for that.
Also it doesn’t really matter what US has while the entire system of the US is completely different. In the US precedent refers to a court decision that is considered as authority for deciding subsequent cases. Neither Georgia nor any other European country works like this, here court just follows the law however it already is defined.
@@TemoMachitidze you lie about my country have you ever been tried in USA under Fara or put in gitmo under the Patriot act. You know fairytale Hollywood USA not what is real as a USA citizen.
You get a membership in the EU! And you get a membership in the EU! Everyone get the membership in the EU!
Bravo Democratic Georgians....
The fkn question mark.
Good now those Georgians will never know if Russia is pouring money in Georgian parliament and NGOs.
This "Russian law" is similar to the Foreign Agency Registration Act of my country of the United States of America. A lot of nations around the world have laws similar as well. It's pretty much transparency as it tells the citizens where the funding of NGOs, universities, news outlets and means of information come from. An example of the US is that news correspondents are based in the US from the Russian news outlet, RT had to register as "foreign agents" and the same applied to the Chinese media outlets.
Thank u for clarifying this 😅 apearently sombody has told people it prevent them from entering EU 😂
Nice try 🤡 now go to your owner mr.kgb vodka! 💩
The US is a mature democracy with all checks and balances, this law in these countries can be used for everything. And I doubt it's the same law as the one in the US, you are just parroting the russian trolls.
@@TheTomexification I didn't say it's the same thing. I said it's similar. But you're right, all laws can be used for other means and this isn't exclusive to Russia, Georgia or any other "Bad Guy" country. The US does it with the Espionage Act as it goes after journalists instead of people working for other countries, i.e spying.
@@TheTomexification they should have a law for transparency. Maybe EU should help them to adopt a law simmillar to UK or one of the European countries regarding foriegn agents and funding
Next. Moscow , Spring 2023.
The Russian World will not give up it's former colonies.
Everything coming back to normals. Sakashvili in prison. Georgia back to Russia. Soon Ukraine to follow.