Grigory Sverdlin says he has seen this story before. A Russian activist now living in exile in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Sverdlin has watched over the past month as thousands of Georgian ...
Russian Activist in Georgia Warns 'Foreign Agent' Law Will Kick-Start Crackdown on Dissent By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) - Grigory Sverdlin says he has seen this story before. A Russian ...
A Russian activist ... says the law - which cleared parliament on Tuesday and now heads to Georgia's president for review - is needed to ensure transparency in the foreign financing of non-profit ...
A Russian activist ... says the law – which cleared parliament on Tuesday and now heads to Georgia’s president for review – is needed to ensure transparency in the foreign financing of ...
The Russian activist ... "the Russian law" and say it copies legislation Russia wields to target critics of President Vladimir Putin. Sverdlin himself was branded a "foreign agent" by the Russian ...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, on May 11, to protest a Russian-style ... contentious draft law to crack down on “foreign agents ...
Georgia's parliament ... step toward the kind of draconian laws that have quashed political dissent in neighboring Russia. In backing the so-called "foreign agent" law, Georgia's parliamentarians ...
Western countries and Georgia's opposition have denounced the legislation as authoritarian and Russian-inspired. Critics liken it to Russia's 2012 "foreign agent" law, which has been used to hound ...