{"id":3416,"date":"2024-05-14T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/georgia-passes-controversial-foreign-agents-bill-despite-widespread-opposition\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:24:05","slug":"georgia-passes-controversial-foreign-agents-bill-despite-widespread-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/georgia-passes-controversial-foreign-agents-bill-despite-widespread-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia passes controversial \u2018foreign agents\u2019 bill despite widespread opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clw6386xy000mrsqihhx89uze@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Georgia\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial \u201cforeign agents\u201d bill despite widespread domestic opposition and warnings from the European Union that its enactment would imperil the country\u2019s chances of joining the bloc.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clw63iult00083b6k7rr1mefg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The new law will require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as \u201cagents of foreign influence\u201d or face crippling fines. Opponents say that the legislation was modeled after similar laws in Russia that the Kremlin has used to increasingly snuff out opposition and civil society.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clw64s5va000a3b6kbt683i0c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Many Georgians fear their foreign agents bill will be used the same way in their country. Nightly protests have shut down Tbilisi, the capital, for about a month.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clw63qozi000a3b6k4kde4zka@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Georgian Dream, the ruling party that pushed through the legislation, has hit back at criticism, saying the move will promote transparency and national sovereignty.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clw63tz3f000e3b6ko5jjuvh3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <em>This is a developing story. More details to come.<\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial \u201cforeign agents\u201d bill despite widespread domestic opposition and warnings&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}