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Police in Georgia fired tear gas and water cannon into crowds protesting against a bill seen by the opposition as targeting media freedoms.
Thousands waving Georgian and European Union flags gathered outside parliament to protest what they see as a Russian-inspired law.
Under the bill – dubbed the “foreign agent” law- independent media that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign donors would have to register as organisations “bearing the interests of a foreign power”.
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@rhondaborders5603
That is wrong, it’s a better way. TURN THE TVS Off. Sounds crazy, but think about the financial impact.
@Ben83597
Now Biden's America won't be able to export its Rainbow, LGBTQ, and 51+ gender ideology.
@Trueaboveall
Criminal West trying block a law which wouldn't allow them support the national puppets that allows them to rule from outside. No country has the right to interfere in another country's decision to dictate their internal legal order. As for the protester or they are the recipient of that money or just functional social entities whose brain is intoxicated by their ignorance. They only have to try to finance political agendas in the hegemon boss. Infantile people.
@eltudobem7539
Do actual Georgians (outside of the young fashion crowd in Tbilisi) who have family that for generations have fought and died against foreign influence and invasion for centuries and centuries to protect Georgian integrity, culture, the Church (the Orthodox Truth) etc. really think that this law, as the U.S. has in place (subject to jail time), per Hillary Clinton's playbook, dubbed it "Russian-style" (retarded), is actually going to help their country remain truly Georgian that represents their Holy and honorable past? Laughable that NATO, EU and the U.S. (utter flaming hypocrites of an unknown level) would threaten real Georgians for wanting transparency as to who is influencing their beautiful country, which mind you is very small in size and seemingly weak recently when threatened by pitchforks and torches at parliament (punches and yelling). Do the actual Georgian people NOT want to know who is influencing their country in disguise? HA. IF they are really that dumb, and see no reason to understand who is influencing their most wonderful God-given country to pull them into a western, Russian buffer-zone scheme (Ukraine), then all the heroes and Saints of Georgia are simply betrayed by present Georgians that will go down as those that initiated the rot of the country forever. Vakhtang Gorgasali is looking down on all of you Georgians to protect this Orthodox country, given to you by God – to not give it away to the Godless!!! Simply let this law go into place, and hopefully you Georgian people will see that many western-influenced NGO operations in Georgia that are there are there with a goal to primarily keep you hating Russians and your other (naughty) neighbors, to further your people's division and conquering of one of the greatest Orthodox countries in the world!
@olgaltey3278
Wonderful!
Next step is to get Ukrainian Saachwilly from the looney bin and install him to be a President again
@unai_asecas9070
Transparency, lets see WHO is trying to manipulate georgias popular opinion. Lets expose USA and the west.
@unai_asecas9070
1:40 The "free media" is the one financed by western powers. The law fortunately is going forwards and georgia will NOT become the next UA.
@kylemfwelch
I understand the law is similar to The Foreign Agents Registration Act, (FARA) of the US Code
@whartanto2
Everytime I read this headline I always confuse Georgia the country near Russia with Georgia the state near Florida.
@artdavida4197
How can foreign money serve the interest of Georgians?
@nonamamaladze3782
Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺❤️❤️❤️
@anjafark
Brave people of Georgia 🙏
@vizned
America is on other continent , EU is far away and your neighbours are beside you.Georgia be clever, be smart save your future.🕊️🤝♥️
@livefastdieyoung8703
Where is Victoria Nuland ?? She loves protest doesn't she ?? She needs to be there handing out cookies to the old flocks and kids …..
@ChuckPalomo
This is baffling. Usually, protests are over better living conditions, or unjust prosecution, or against corruption. Never have I seen protests from people wanting foreign institutions to have less transparency and greater political power. It's like I'm living in opposite world.
@ჯულფრიდკინოები
What did Russia do to us?
(incomplete list):
1770 – betrayal in the Aspindze War
1795 – betrayal in the Krtsanis war
1801 – annexation of Georgia
1801 – Migration of the Georgian royal family
1804 – Suppression of Mtiuleti rebellion
1810 – Abolition of the Kingdom of Imereti.
1811 – abolition of autocephaly
1812 – suppression of the Kakheti rebellion
1819 – suppression of the Imereti rebellion
1841 – suppression of the Guria rebellion
1856 – Suppression of Samegrelo rebellion
1887 – Dimitri Kifiani's murder.
Robbery-kidnapping of gilded icons
▪ Churches are whitewashed with whitewash by a "unanimous" elder "brother".
▪ Expulsion of Georgian language in schools, churches, judicial system and legalization of Russian
1920 – annexation of Sochi
1921 – annexation of the state of Georgia
1921 – Gifting of Hereti (Saingilo) and Lore, a large part of Tao-Klarjeti (by the Treaty of Kars)
1922 – suppression of the Svaneti rebellion
1923 – shooting of Kote Abkhaz
1923 – shooting of Levan Razikashvili
1923 – Exhumation of the bodies of Davit and Konstantine Mkheidze and street sweeping
1924 – Revolt suppressed with unprecedented brutality, 12,000 killed
1924 – shooting of Valiko Jugeli
1925 – the murder of Mikha Khelashvili
1937 – shooting of Mikheil Javakhishvili
1937 – shooting of Sandro Akhmeteli
1937 – shooting of Giorgi Mazniashvili, the man whose merit was captured is part of Georgia
1937 – Titian Tabidze was shot
1937 – Yevgeni Mikeladze was shot
1937 – Dimitri Shevardnadze was shot
1937 – shooting of Vakhtang Kotetishvili
1937 – shooting of Nikolo Mitsishvili
1937 – Giorgi Eliava was shot
1937 – shooting of Besarion Chichinadze (designer of Zahesi and Rionhesi)
1937 – unprecedented terror, mass shootings
1942 – shooting of 17 members of the patriotic student organization "Saman"
1956 – March 9 tragedy
1978 – attempt to cancel the state language
1989 – April 9 tragedy
1989 – Murder of Merab Kostava (death in a suspicious accident, together with Zurab Chavchavadze)
1991 – organization and financing of the putsch
1992-1993 Abkhazia war, 25,000 dead, 300,000 internally displaced
1993-murder of Gamsakhurdia (death of the president under suspicious circumstances)
2004 – Clashes in Samachablo
2008 – war against Georgia
2008-2020 creeping occupation, kidnapping, terror.
@jhhhjgfds
LOL, George Jologua has been involved with multiple NGOs since 2012, receiving funding from various EU and US organizations and corporations. Over the past decade, he has overseen projects supported by UNDP, UNFPA, OSGF, and others. Essentially, he acts as a foreign agent, representing foreign countries and international corporations in industries like oil, arms, mining, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and more, all aiming to promote their own agendas.
@vangroover1903
Georgia has come such a long way since the old Jim Crow days, when even the best Georgians like Martin Luther King and Julian Bond were subject to oppression by the state.
@Clock_Man_2763
It’s unfortunate that lot of people claim that this law is also in US too, but it’s more similar to the law passed in Russia in 2012, passing it would sabotage Georgia’s opportunity to join EU and will just leave it in darkness, even Russian propagandists themselves praised the law 🥲🇬🇪
@Jesus-Histler
Same law in USA fools
@qetiq8261
I am Georgian. 🇬🇪In my country, journalists spit on the government 24/7. I don't turn on the TV. It's all agitated by the members of the previous government. There is no free media in our country. We think that most of them are paid.
In your country, when the police are spat on, physically and verbally insulted, what does the police do? Are there journalists in your country who insult people in the street because of their different opinion?
What you see is violence and vandalism organized by "sponsored" leaders from outside of the country.
@M_Rich11
Russia working hard to control the narrative… as usual.
@docastrov9013
This news reader cannot read.
@mak712.
არა რუსულ მთავრობას საქართველოში !
@mbronzeinfo7950
LONG LIVE GEORGIA FREE GEORGIANS 🙏 💙 ❤️
@IvaTaiwan
🇬🇪Georgia is part of 🇷🇺Russia
@IvaTaiwan
Puppet crying 😁😁
@davidcritchley3509
The CIA is behind many of these NGOs. That's no secret. That's why they don't want people to know where their money comes from. Russia chased most of them away when the law was changed there. These people are lying about helping Georgia. They are helping America in its continued war against Russia.
@simulationsrealconflicts1586
Hypocritically in the USA there is a foreign agent law!
@tomrabe8037
"The national Strife and Hatred among each other is fueled by very specific Elements who don't want them to Calm down. They are those who live in London, New York and Tel Aviv Today. Tomorrow in Warsaw, Prague or Berlin. Because they can do their Business from anywhere." Toosely based on our Führer..
@abiyyupanggalih854
riots everywhere
@yasararif8292
3000 years ago My caste Gurjar came from Georgia and settled in India. Now known as the Gujjar Caste.
We want to go back and claim that land by force like Israel, please help me as well.
@MamukaSarishvili-se9bd
არა რუსეთს, კი გამჭირვალობის კანონს, უცხო ქვეყნის აგენტებმა რომ არ არიონ.
@JohnCSmith-lp1qr
Hows controversial to register as a foreighn agent if you are one ? We have the same law here in the states
@catzov
No to press freedom & transparency! No to new law! 😂🇬🇪
@johnd6913
Probably looking to their neighbours in Ukraine and Armenia and worked out that being western puppets isnt in their interests despite what is said here
@enta2
For those people who don't understand why we don't want this law, it's all the same anyway. I lived in Europe for 7 years and I could not make anyone understand that I am Georgian and not Russian. So watch our events and just shut up
@mrdarbab
I hope this don’t spill over into Alabama. Praise the lord.
@boris8787
I wish Georgia was exactly like my town.
@thewonderingwolf6509
If the Georgian people are not happy about this new law then they know who to vote for in this year's election…Not the Dream Party!!!
@Awibrahor
Authoritarian regimes like to call any dissenting voice a foreign agent. This law is designed to muzzle anyone on this pretext, following Putin the Puny’s playbook.
@Awibrahor
Glory to the people of Georgia!
@tomwalters2529
The nefarious EU is probably assisting these riots. They have many ways (using member states funds) to promote unrest in order to acheive their goals.
@jwc380
This doesn’t look like agency intervention at all. BBC Propaganda piece, surely not 😱
@PurpleChamelion-iy2xe
Wait, is this why they are protesting?
Seriously
@danchokonstantinov6735
Georgia was at crossroads in 2008, and had a bloody nose . Georgians forgot their forefathers invited the Russian Emporor for protection from Ottoman despotism . The present day Ottoman inspired Turkish President Erdogan is at the doorsteps of Georgia and Armenia . Paris and London will always be faraway, their own armies too small to fight against modern day Tudkish army and their ally – Azerbaidjan ! But UK / Fra do not care about locals .