Explainer: Georgian Protests And The Fate Of The Controversial 'Foreign Agents' Law
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- RFE/RL Georgian Service reporter Sophie Datishvili explains the background to Georgia's controversial "foreign agents" law and explains why following two days of violent protests, it's now being withdrawn.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/...
Well done! Freedom is priceless! 🇬🇪🇺🇸
Yankies go home, take your US bases and your open societies and terrorists and go home
@MCat A lol let me guess, you support Putin and Lukashenko.
This warms my heart. And well done for staying there until it's done!
Why does it warm your heart? Can you describe it?
@@mcata3625 People saw that their government was taking a step back from the freedoms most of them want - and they didn't let it happen. Mind you, if you don't understand why that would warm somebody's heart, it's not worth explaining
@1midnightfish why wouldn't you want to k ow who is paying who?
@@user-uy8iy5nh1j All the transparency touted by the government - as previously by the rf - in relation to this law is just a smokescreen: once a government has a mechanism (and a rhetoric) for designating an organisation a "foreign agent", the only step left is to penalise, discredit or outlaw "foreign agents" to disempower anyone posing a challenge to the status quo.
Organisations pushing for progressive change are forced to seek and accept foreign funding in countries whose government isn't interested in progressive change. This law is something that putin is demanding from countries in its orbit, to keep them down and to check how much sway he still holds in the various former (and soon to be again) colonies.
Ukrainians support our freedom-loving brothers🇺🇦❤️🇬🇪
Go home yUkky
Yeah, and Georgia end up like your nazi state;]US is using U as a proxy.Georgia is next.
Well done! Freedom for Georgia!
Freedom? You mean destruction
Good job Georgians!! Make sure to watch them closely until they officially vote down and eliminate that law and any likeness to that law in the future. Power to the people of Georgia!
Which law? Describe it in your own words
@@mcata3625 I see you are working hard for pootler.
Бля, этот закон действует так же в сша, почему Грузия не должна принимать этот закон?!
Ты придурковатая
@@akasa000 who's pootler? Your mother?
@@mcata3625 your father
Very courageous protesters there. Good for them. The answer to the danger of being (unfortunately) a neighbor of Russia is not to copy them but to make alliances with more democratic countries.
А почему демократическая страна США, напала на Ирак? Нападение на государство, находящиеся на другом континенте представляло угрозу для США? Сша спонсировала террористов в Сирии, Ливии - это демократические поступки от США?
The US already has this law in effect!
загугли FARA
Someone throws molotov cocktail exactly in the moment she says "peaceful" demonstrators.
The peaceful fires of CIA color revolutions.
They aren't Showing how they Attacked Georgia Police Unprovoked when they Attacked the Parliament Building
doesn't fit the narrative
Georgia is not rusZia …. Kick those in charge before is too late. I’m with Georgia 🇬🇪 ✊
They should go for their Maidan revolution. Russia's in no position to deploy military assets given their situation in Ukraine. If they did it, Georgia could be steps away from reclaiming Abkhazia and S. Ossetia.
That’s the idea .. to open a new front to trouble Russia …
Did you ask Abhaz people
Viva la libertà ❤🇬🇪♥️🇮🇹
Sottoscrivo!!!
Lui e tutta la combriccola. Ma vista la provenienza e la quarantina di "suicidi" avvenuti in Russia solo nel 2022, non sarebbe il caso di avvicinarlo a Stalin, oltre che a Putin? Oppure i Comunisti ne fanno solo una questione ideologica, con buona pace dell'onestà intellettuale? Sostituiamo il fascismo di destra con quello di sinistra?
@@paolopetrozzi2213 Certo certo. Sempre criminale rimane , cambia niente per me
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@@ResistenzaEuroAsiatica
Ed io ti ho già risposto che è un criminale insieme a tutta la sua combriccola. Il resto fai finta di ignorarlo?
Glory to the independent people of Georgia! You’re making the free world proud!
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Don't back down....Go and claim your freedoms and cause some change! Peace!
Well done, although your idea of peaceful protesters seems a bit strange, what with the petrol bombs being thrown at the security services. I'm not saying it's right or wrong just not my idea of peaceful.
These are foreign sponsored actors who want to destroy Georgia and use it as NATO a$$ wipe to open up a new war front against Russia, Georgia will be destroyed, why are all these commenters here wanting to destroy beautiful Georgia!? Why???
@@mcata3625 I think that you have a very strange, warped view of the world. I don't think the Georgians are working for anyone, they are just exercising their rights to bring their government to task for trying introduce a law that would align them closer to a police state like Russia. The Georgian people have not forgiven Russia for its invasion and now they no longer fear Russia because they are doing so badly against Ukraine. What Putin has managed to do is to have destroyed the myth that the russian military is mighty and to be feared. They are in fact rubbish.
I would like to hear an explanation of the differences between this so called "direct translation" law and the law of the USA
The difference is that any legal system write specific laws that work in cunjunction with it's existing legal basis. "translating" a law in a totally different country would enable a lot of loopholes or even complete disfiguration of the intent of the law, just because it's not stepped on existing precedent.
USA doesn't slaughter civilians u Bot
Bots never reply
@@sirzebra any country can disfigure its laws. The USA is one that has
@@marcob1729 - "any country can disfigure its laws."
How does that piece of information helps Georgians in regard to this unwanted law? how?
- "The USA is one that has..."
A false equivalency doesn't help Georgians.
Fight for your rights while you still can 💪
Notice she said peaceful protesters just as a molotov cocktail was thrown at the Police. Things that make you go hmmm
peaceful protestors
*a random protestor throws a peaceful molotov on the standing still police*
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
~Thomas Paine
That's a petty serendiptious number too, 76? Maybe just a coincidence of party lines but still weird
Please, what is the significance of the number 76?
@@-xirx- They state there are 150 seats, half of 150 is 75. Again could just be party lines that they have exactly 1 more seat to have a majority, but without knowing details from outside perspective, just hearing 76 votes is odd
@@doifhg thankyou for the explanation
Well it is good to know Molotov cocktails are considered peaceful protesting now. I don't generally have an issue with people protesting, though non-violent means are always better at winning the support of the wider world. But when you're fed up, you're fed up. It's not my place to say what is considered going too far in this case, I don't come from Georgia.
Maybe your reporting should match the visuals though. It's ok to say that violence broke out against the police. We're grown up enough to understand that the people of Georgia don't want this law and are willing to fight for their liberty, even if the protesters started the escalation of violence.
Truthfulness is always more important than optics if you wish to be taken seriously. Just an observation, most of the time you do a good job reporting on important issues and events. Just stick the landing.
it started as a peacful prostest. the molotovs came after the police released the tear gas and the water
Sad day
Please provide a reference to the source for this Act
Umm why wouldnt you want to knw who is paying who?
Thats how you do it.
@2:14 motolovs dont look that peaceful
After the government sents robocops yeah
Chapeau Georgia! ❤
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wouldn't this "russian law" work against russian influencers in georgia in the first place?
This isn’t explained well.
I think you're the only commenter with any brain cells
Top quality commentary @2:03, the "mostly peacefull protesters" just happened to throw a few Molotov cocktails to the police.
Georgians who aren’t Orc lovers need to take this opportunity to have a revolution. There won’t be a better chance…
Why? Who are you and why do you want to destroy Georgia?
@@mcata3625 Being Putler's bish will destroy Georgia, not freedom. If Belarus has a revolution a few years ago the country could have modernized, instead of falling further down the shi- hole of being an ally of Ruzzia...
Someone explain what is this foreign agent law pls
It's to keep foreigners from interfering in elections, but the CIA wants to interfere so this happens
@@GScully42that’s a lie.
It forbids you to get funds from foreign countries. Basically shuts you down
@@Qartlos explain
The West has similar laws preventing foreigners from interfering in elections, the CIA doesn't want that to happen.
The law is modelled on FARA the USAs foreign agent law. Manountries have the same to protect their countries against foreign influence and manipulation. Do your homework, stop talking nonsense and misinforming people, and stop being a traitor to Georgia.
Exactly.
freedom ain't cheap or free. you got to earn it. if you want don't want to live under putin type regimes, then you must fight for your freedom.
What is this freedom you speak of?
@@GScully42 something the commies will not understand.
This time Georgia can have western support.
But it will take some time to arrive...
So, be patient and resilient as the Ukrainians.
Yankies go home
It seems that hundreds of thousands of Russians are there (fleeing from conscription) !!!
So. Are the Russians who must go home !
@@joaomaxado65 well there's hundreds of thousands of Georgians living happily in Russia LOL!
Way to go Georgia from America!
Why this law is controversial? This law is also in US and EU.
The name of the law maybe, or even its announced "purpose". But you have to read it to know what is written in it.
Moreover: "The difference is that any legal system write specific laws that work in cunjunction with it's existing legal basis. "translating" a law in a totally different country would enable a lot of loopholes or even complete disfiguration of the intent of the law, just because it's not stepped on existing precedent."
And in Russia this law has already "applied" to eliminate every non-Kremlin connected media and even blogger for the last 10 years
@@paolopetrozzi2213 sounds like some bs to me.
@@GScully42
What, exactly?
The US wanting to open another front.. poor Georgians so naive are likely to become another Ukraine.
Aww. Orc troll so upset and paranoid. Cope more Orc…
@@stevemcgowen upset ? I don’t give a f about Russians, nor Ukrainians and certainly not for Georgians and neither do our western governments. Go back ti watching cnn and have your dose of western propaganda
Have a vodka enema and chill out.
Ehi, axx. Hole, have you not been drafted yet?
Ha ha ha. Blame everyone but yourself hey orc face.
She was so unfull of info.
There's over 624k Russian casualties/156.1k KIAs and over 468.3k wounded... There were at least 590 KIAs last night... And also over 1.3k total casualties last night.
Keep up that bodycount, don't stop, UA. Your people are counting on you..... .. .
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