From the nation that launched the so-called colored revolutions comes another showdown…
Georgia’s parliament shrugging off some of the biggest protests in its post-Soviet history and approving a foreign agents bill that mirrors legislation in neighboring Russia, a way argues the opposition to curb media freedom and dissent in a South Caucuses country that only recently graduated to EU candidate status.
Is Tbilisi now returning to Russia’s orbit… or did that already happen when the Georgia Dream party of billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili won a supermajority in 2020? That supermajority slated to override a presidential veto on what the opposition calls the Russian Law. Then what?
Ahead of elections in the fall, we’ll ask what lessons for other former Soviet states like Armenia, Kazakhstan and of course Ukraine – which just ten years ago was still evenly split between pro-Moscow and pro-E-U citizens.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Guillaume Gougeon and Imen Mellaz.
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