Analysis
Why is Georgian Dream reviving the foreign agent law?
Georgia’s ruling party has promised to pass a controversial ‘foreign agents’ law a year after it was withdrawn following mass street protests. Coming just six months before parliamentary elections, why is the ruling party making such a risky move? On the morning of 3 April, Georgian Dream’s parliamentary leader Mamuka Mdinaradze announced that the government would be bringing back the law — dubbed the ‘Russian law’ by critics — that would target civil society organisations and the media and li
