Article 6MQWA About 50,000 protest in Tbilisi against Georgia ‘foreign agents’ bill

About 50,000 protest in Tbilisi against Georgia ‘foreign agents’ bill

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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels
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US says parliamentarians must choose between Kremlin-style laws or Euro-Atlantic democratic path

An estimated 50,000 people marched peacefully in heavy rain in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Saturday night after the US said parliamentarians had to choose between Kremlin-style laws or the Euro-Atlantic democratic path they had embarked upon.

The march was the latest in a series of public protests against a foreign agents" bill that would require media and commercial organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from outside the country to register as agents of foreign influence".

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