Crackdown on pro-EU protests against 'foreign agents' bill in Georgia | DW News 

If you ever stop fighting for your freedom, chances are you're going to loose it. 🇩🇰❤🇬🇪

❤All power to the people of Georgia❤

Save Georgia from Russia 😢

Sakartvelo 🇬🇪

Change can only come from within, but I hope you will be able join EU soon. But that requires a win in political elections.

ruzzian botz will work overtime on this one...

This is how Russia gets its foot in the door.

Georgia has been struggling against Russia for the last 300 years. Our national identity historically has always been European and currently by all relevant polls over 85% of Georgians want the country to strive for EU and NATO membership. Only thing preventing and slowing down the process is the current government elected in 2012, which outwardly also plays a game of being pro EU, but with time, especially in the last 4-6 years has slowly shifted to autocracy and tried to move the country closer to Russia inch by inch. They have employed every play in the KGB playbook to deceive their own people into submission. Despite this, we are still candidates for EU membership. Solely due to Georgian people, we are still outperforming ourselves in all the major metrics required for ascension to the EU. Whatever happens, we will never look towards north with anything but contempt and resolve to return our occupied lands. Georgian people will not stand for it ! We will do everything in our power to consolidate this movement and say no to pro-Russian government in the upcoming October elections. Until then, we hope for all the support we can get from our closest European friends and strategic partner the US. This is a part of larger strife by Russia to extend its spheres of influence into Caucasus or post soviet countries in general and if there is a lesson to be learned from the last 20 years of European politics, especially the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 after which Russia cemented its occupation of 20% of our country, occupation of Crimea in 2014 or current murderous war in our brotherly Ukraine, is that Russia should be stopped by any means possible !

Unfortunately the same BS is happening in Slovakia 😢😢😢

Hypocritically in the USA there is a foreign agent law!

America Georgia is on your side

We see Putin’s evil hand

Brave students fighting against the authoritarian regimes!

Fight for your FREEDOM!

Way more benefits to joins EU than your bully.

Endlose Gedanken, Traurigkeit, Freude - Georgia ❤

Sterkte / Hold on!

The population of Georgia is divided into two groups, both are pro Europeans, Here, protesters are protesting a law that requires financial transparency from the NGO sector. The NGO sector presents the situation as if someone in Georgia was against Europe

I like how Z bots are being like “do you want Maidan in Gerogia”. So few people watching this vid even know what that is… unlike ruzzians 🤣🤣

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Russia has lost all of militarily allies in Europe part after Soviet Union collapsed except Belarus.Vladimir Putin should be reviewing the shortcomings of Russia diplomatic policies and relative strategic mistakes.

Yes things here are not great.

God bless Georgia, fight for freedom✊🏻✌🏻

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Makes a lot of sense. If some foreign agency is funding your media, there is some agenda. Can you fund any EU/US media without the govt. knowing?

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Georgian Maidan?

Спасибо за видео! Thank you for the video!

but EU has similar "forein agents" laws...

If they can't find a way to deal with Bidzina Ivanishvili, they will never free themselves from Russian servitude.

Democracy will prevail. Be safe, be very careful. Fight the evil that is fascism. With respect and concern for you all 🇦🇺

these videos look like war on softcore mode

This law is so that the citizens of Georgia can see which foreign organizations finance their politics. Not only Russian but also from Western countries. NATO countries have laws like this, you only need to look at the USA, which has had the FARA law approved since 1938. Why do Western countries welcome these demonstrations against this law when they themselves have one that protects their interests from foreign organizations?

let everyone be honest. we all know how ended up pro-EU protest in Ukraine in 2014

The Researcher made a good video about the Russia Foreign Agents law, where he lists the differences between America’s FARA and Russia’s law.

Germany's tax laws limit a tax-exempt NPO's engagement in political activities. A tax- exempt NPO must not spend any of its assets to directly or indirectly benefit political parties, such as through campaigning (Fiscal Code §55(1)).

Fair enough in my mind we would not like foreigners interfering in our democracy.

If you don't like this law, then go and protest against its counterpart in your countries, there is an analogue of such a law everywhere!

this seems very similar to the maidan revolution in Ukraine. We all know what happened next...

Let's intend that the political leaders who are puppets of Putin in Georgia are held accountable, one way or another.

Ivasvilli?? That sounds incredibly similar to Djhugashvilli- as in, Ioseb Djhugashvilli, also known as Joseph Stalin- who was born in gori, Georgia. WHAT CENTURY IS THIS 😭

Why don’t you say how much people attended? I'm not seeing much people from your report despite it is obvious this protest is funded by EU.That 20% bill also including Russia isn’t it?Than why your country is against it?Try to give a clear picture. And don’t serve US interests by saying morality. Serve your country.

ნათია ქათამაძე, დიდი მადლობა ამ რეპორტაჟისთვის. ერთი თხოვნა მექნება: "სამხრეთ ოსეთი" არის კომუნისტების ტერმინი, საქართველოს ოკუპაციამდე ესეთი მხარე საქართველოში არ არსებობდა. "სამხრეთ ოსეთი" ისტორიული სამაჩაბლოა. ის ფაქტი, რომ ჩრდილოეთ ოსეთი რუსეთშია, ბევრ საქმეში ჩაუხედავს შეუქმნის შთაბეჭდილებას, რომ სეპარატისტები, რომლებმაც ისტორიული კუთხე მოწყვიტეს საქართველოს, თავისი სამშობლოს გაერთიანებისთვის იბრძვიან, რაც რა თქმა უნდა, არ შეესაბამება სიმართლეს და რაც, რა თქმა უნდა, საქართველოს მტრების ინტერესებში შედის.

Georgia is not Europe. Look at its neighbor countries. If Georgia becomes Europe, all the people will just emigrate out of it asap.

That is a lot of riot police

CIA needs to figure how to smuggle tens of thousands of automatic weapons into the country.

A new “euro Maidan”

Georgia. Europe appreciates you. This is a difficult one because of Russia but let's work together

Europe loves you .

The problem is if they threaten Georgia with that they can’t join EU if the do not also enter NATO.

Maybe someone from EU will find a time and will visit a candidate state? The Russia is giving the back to the pro Russian government and what we see from EU no actions as always

If organisations are partly being foreign funded, then why is that wrong to make them register as agents. US has the FARA law which is exactly the same.

DW is slowly fixing things. First host still needs to be removed but the second one is good

Does Germany have a Foreign Agents Act?

Well, you are clowns. What does Russia have to do with it? There is such a law in America, in Europe too, maybe then Georgia is heading west?

free sakaashvili!!

Why are everyday people who can barely pay their rent, protesting over the facts that organisations who receive a large donation of money need to be honest about the funds? Money is lobbying and when you are given money you become an agent for the people who are sponsoring you. Mate if I ran an organisation (especially one that could get into local authorities, communities and Gov't), and China gave me 20+% of my funds, I would be more than happy to admit I am working in China's interest and inform my country about it, it might also help me from being corrupted too.

I don't understand, why is it a bad thing to know if outsiders are influencing a nation?

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America has a foreign agents law by the way as do many EU countries.

Can't go to Russia, but can go to china. Can go to germany.

In the UK we see what leaving the EU was done for. Our rights are slowly being removed as the government becomes more authoritarian.

Maybe Georgia is craving for FAB therapy.

No analysis from journalists side they don’t understand the essence and what they are talking about. Why not provide analysis about the negative aspects of the law, lack of knowledge just throwing some words here and there leave a lot of space for speculations.

So they want to be like the US, eh? In 1938, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (22 U.S.C. §§611-621; FARA) was enacted to require individuals doing political or advocacy work on behalf of foreign entities in the United States to register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and to disclose their relationship, activities, receipts, and disbursements in support of their activities. FARA does not prohibit any specific activities; rather it seeks to require registration and disclosure of them. According to the most recently available data (December 2021), more than 450 active registrants represent about 750 foreign principals.

Who voted for them? If people are so easily manipulated... Why try to help them?

Slava Ukraine Georgia Moldavie.....

Do they want to end up like Ukraine?

Can they get a justice until the next week? 🤔🤔🤫🤝💰💸💥💥🤤🤒🤒👨🏼‍💻🙏🏻 ,

In the US we have a foreign agent bill more stringent than this one. Sir are you advocating against our own governments FARA law? Or are you being hypocritical?💁

Who provides the EU flags that just appeared in the protests? Same source as the ukrainian flags that just appeared in the US congress the other day? The rules that has been proposed are very similar as the ones that exist i the US… 🤔

Georgia, my country of the the United States of America has had the Foreign Agents Registration Act since the 1930s and it's accepted as a practical and democratic measure to ensure transparency.

They copied this law from US one . Why it is said to agaisnt EU?

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Maidan 3.0 in the making, once more.

Les Georgiens pro euro.. ils recoivent de l argent de qui?? Faudrait peut etre se poser la question. Par la meme occasion, faudrait penser aussi a arreter de tenter cette destabilisation russe qui ne mene nulle part..

Does Germany has such a low?What about USA,Great Britain, France?

Test

crackdown also happened at USA university

C.I.A

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Another Ukraine in waiting 😂

The law sounds very reasonable… and I am sure is common in many countries

Are the anti-foreign agents" bill directed at the US? And the EU Commission and Council? If not, why fund and fan the protests?

What people want in Georgia? Those 20% law also applicable for Russia.And western goverments was not happy with it.That means this protest also funded by EU and also can be US.What Georgian peoples are interested in actually in which situation they will accept like Ukraine 2014/Syria /Libya /French Afria.That's the actual news.They should start to think about it.

Financial transparency use to be part of all democracy's. USA, France and Germany among many others with a similar law. Georgians must be the thickest people in Europe. Well suited to the EU.

Why are we against Georgia being transparent about foreign funding of political groups? People should have the right to know who's pocket their politicians are in, by it Russian or Western.

EU was working excellent without Este block...

I hope we don't turn into Ukraine 2.0 :(( Things are getting tense over here.

What do you care about this law?

Voting age around the world should be raised to 25yrs...these children are too easily manipulated

So the parliament should give in to the parliament of the streets? Is that democracy? Ironically, USA has had such a law since 1938.

It's every governments responsibility to protect their citizens from these NGOs. Countries around the world are being targeted particular here in Sth East Asia. The leader of the pack (NED)..."National Endowment for Democracy". They, in conjuction with CIA and MI-5 Orchestrate all the others which funded by America. I mean all of them with the exception of UNESCO. All your favorites Greenpeace, doctors without bordes, nurses for democracy all of them bought and paid for by the US. They are very very effective in what they do because they have millions of dollars and target the media, minority groups, and young people. Their aim is to destable governments leading to a colour revolution. They are like a cancer on the world. "THEY LIVE OF BRIBERY"

Now russia will invade gerogia😂😂

The protesters too are possibly being paid. Eg. Stone pelters in Kashmir

Which developed nation does not have some form of FARA?

The Georgian foreign agent law is pretty much a copy of the US one. And well,there were demonstrations for the law aswell.

Georgia needs this foreign agents' bill to protect its sovereignty from Brussels once it is part if the EU.... smart move by the Georgian govt...

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Ah yes, the famous Blue-Red-White "popular" revolutions.