Georgia’s parliament has voted to drop a controversial bill that would have required some media outlets and civil society groups to register as “agents of foreign influence” if they received funding from abroad.
The bill, which was proposed by a faction of lawmakers who left the ruling Georgian Dream party but remained in the parliamentary majority, sparked massive protests in the capital Tbilisi and criticism from international organizations and Georgia’s Western allies.
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