Nadia Beard writes about national elections in the republic of Georgia, which will be held in October and may determine whether the opposition can stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism.
The new law, which was first proposed as the “foreign agent” law and is still often referred to that way, requires organizations that receive more than twenty per cent of their funding from foreign sources to register on a government database. It has also been dubbed “the Russia n law” because it resembles one that Vladimir Putin first passed in Russia in 2012, which was then used to target N.G.O.s and media organizations.
“Georgia is experiencing state capture,” Kornely Kakachia, the director of the independent Georgian Institute of Politics think tank, told me. “Georgian Dream, like previous governments, has monopolized power and they use administrative resources during elections.” Their approach has depended on a fractured opposition and what analysts call “strategic ambiguity”—ostensibly courting the West while appeasing Russia.
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