The Georgian people have been clear: their future is with the Euro-Atlantic community.

By overriding President Salome Zourabichvili's veto to adopt the law on foreign influence, the Georgian Government has stepped away from these aspirations.

The UK stands with the Georgian people.

Georgian Civil Society organizations just announced that they will appeal the Russian foreign agents law to the Constitutional Court of Georgia. If the court delays or fails to act within constitutional framework, they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. ECHR CEDH

🇱🇹On May 29, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the Georgian Ambassador after the Georgian Dream overrode the presidential veto, and finally adopted #ForeignAgentsLaw , the Lithuanian MFA said in its statement.
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there is a pattern of the Georgian Dream leadership going after ambassadors (and trying to damage their careers) if they don't *totally* submit to the Otsneba line.

It's important this is thoroughly understood in all capitals also.

🇬🇪 As Georgia’s disputed foreign agent law progressed through parliament amid mass protests, phones kept ringing.

Journalists & civil society advocates received threatening calls, but Caller ID Spoofing hid callers' identities, a state agency says: occrp.org/en/blog/18761-…

Two years, still not understood

'Because of the adoption of the law on foreign agents, the proposal for the free dental clinic project for children was withdrawn in Oni municipality.'

Georgian Dream knows very well the damage they are causing to the Georgian people, including those very vulnerable.

Georgië 🇬🇪 Meer weten over de Russische connecties van oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili? Interessante draad :

Georgia has announced that a Chinese consortium submitted the sole bid to build a sprawling deep-sea port in Anaklia, ending a multiyear political saga over the megaproject that puts Tbilisi's growing ties with Beijing in the spotlight.rferl.org/a/anaklia-geor…

David Katsarava, my best friend, who was peacefully participating in a protest in Tbilisi, was tortured by officers of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which could not have happened without direct orders from top officials. Since the authorities continue to write texts

🧵You have all been asking about oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili: Who is he? Is he pro-Russian? What are his connections to Russia? How can a pro-European people have a pro-Russian government?

Our latest study explains the Russian nature of the state capture by the oligarch.

What’s next for the foreign agent law?

While vilifying the West at the cost of Georgian democracy and European future, he owns millions of worth high-end real estate in the US and France, as well as art collection worth up to USD 1 billion in the West.

Transparency Int'l GE/ Ivanishvili's profile: transparency.ge/en/post/oligar…

Ivanishvili utilizes a complex network of offshore entities and trusts to manage his assets across various jurisdictions. We uncovered more than 20 offshore companies controlled by the Ivanishvili family, extending to real estate holdings and over 100 companies in Georgia.

In 2022 the EC requested deoligarchization as one of the prerequisites for Georgia’s integration with the EU, Georgian Dream initiated legislation that would identify specific oligarchs in the country, but made sure Ivanishvili would not fall under the definition of oligarch.