Georgia has been rocked by large anti-government protests. The country is experiencing a democratic decline, says a political scientist | World

Two democratic prizes in the post-Soviet space, now a country that is struggling to move on and join the European Union. Georgia now looks like it’s on the verge of a revolution. The government and the opposition with the support of Obansk society and the law that the Georgian regime wants to add to non-governmental organizations less than half a year before the elections.

The Act on the Transparency of Foreign Influence is intended to make financial associations and copper companies more transparent. In reality, however, it is only a slightly modified version of the norm on so-called foreign agents, which was approved by the opposition in the run-up last year. Thus, the approved law does not include the designated foreign agent, for organizations financed from abroad, the government invented the term foreign agent. Discriminant means new norms, creating the same.

Following Putin’s example

It is noteworthy that a fifth of the annual budget of media and non-governmental organizations is financed from abroad. What does it mean that the implementers of foreign messages will become a part of Georgian non-governmental organizations and online means of communication, which operate in the country thanks to foreign grants. That is, especially those who criticize the current authoritarian regime in Tbilisi.