A parade of foreign influence laws
The number of countries that have passed laws on foreign agents, transparency and countering foreign influence is growing worldwide. The geography of such legislation has never fit into ideological divides such as West-East, North-South or “democracies vs. autocracies.” This is not even about the ...
... extermination against them. The UNM and Zourabichvili were acting as Western proxies in this war, and they were the ones who had to be defeated to fulfill the second Georgian dream: Ivanishvili’s team believed that purging Georgia’s government agencies of foreign agents would prevent the West from pushing harmful policies in the country and force it to rebuild relations with Tbilisi on an equitable basis.
This approach to fighting for the sovereignty of foreign policy, of course, continued to reflect the ...