Unrest in Georgia Over The “Foreign Influence Transparency Law”: “Whichever Way We Go Is a Step Back”

There is a massive problem at the heart of Georgia’s peculiar political economy. It goes back a quarter of a century, predating the 2003 Rose Revolution. The late president Edvard Shevardnadze had given foreign aid agencies great leeway, so towards the end of his feckless and corrupt rule, NGOs were already a vocal presence in [...]