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America’s New Cold War: Europe Faces a Stark Choice – COMMENTARY
15 April 2025
The worrying developments in Georgia have revealed that although Russia is losing its military battlefront against Ukraine, it is winning its grey-zone operations against Georgia.
Protests have erupted in Georgia. Despite repeated warnings from democracy watchdogs, international partners and Georgian citizens, Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party passed a Kremlin-style “foreign agents” bill in its first reading on 7 March. The bill requires any organisation receiving more than 20 per cent of its funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence.”
First tested in Putin’s Russia in 2012, the law aims to silence, intimidate and surpass civil society. Immediately after the plenary session on the draft law began, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets of Tbilisi. Although protesters waving EU and Georgia flags were met with water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas, Georgians are not planning to stop protesting and demonstrating, as they always have, that “Georgia’s place is in Europe.”
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