Explainer: Georgian Protests And The Fate Of The Controversial 'Foreign Agents' Law

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to Georgia's controversial "foreign agents" law and explains why following two days of violent protests, it's now being withdrawn.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/a/explainer-geo...

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  • @demetr285
    @demetr285 Жыл бұрын

    Ukrainians support our freedom-loving brothers🇺🇦❤️🇬🇪

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Go home yUkky

  • @tommy19745

    @tommy19745

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, and Georgia end up like your nazi state;]US is using U as a proxy.Georgia is next.

  • @andrzej6286
    @andrzej6286 Жыл бұрын

    Well done! Freedom is priceless! 🇬🇪🇺🇸

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Yankies go home, take your US bases and your open societies and terrorists and go home

  • @andrzej6286

    @andrzej6286

    Жыл бұрын

    @MCat A lol let me guess, you support Putin and Lukashenko.

  • @1midnightfish
    @1midnightfish Жыл бұрын

    This warms my heart. And well done for staying there until it's done!

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Why does it warm your heart? Can you describe it?

  • @1midnightfish

    @1midnightfish

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @user-uy8iy5nh1j

    @user-uy8iy5nh1j

    Ай бұрын

    ​@1midnightfish why wouldn't you want to k ow who is paying who?

  • @1midnightfish

    @1midnightfish

    Ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Saukko31
    @Saukko31 Жыл бұрын

    Well done! Freedom for Georgia!

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Freedom? You mean destruction

  • @akasa000
    @akasa000 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Which law? Describe it in your own words

  • @akasa000

    @akasa000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mcata3625 I see you are working hard for pootler.

  • @pumpdump8809

    @pumpdump8809

    Жыл бұрын

    Бля, этот закон действует так же в сша, почему Грузия не должна принимать этот закон?! Ты придурковатая

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    @@akasa000 who's pootler? Your mother?

  • @akasa000

    @akasa000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mcata3625 your father

  • @peterzeman2749
    @peterzeman27498 ай бұрын

    Someone throws molotov cocktail exactly in the moment she says "peaceful" demonstrators.

  • @patricknorton5788
    @patricknorton5788 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @pumpdump8809

    @pumpdump8809

    Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    The US already has this law in effect!

  • @neko22822

    @neko22822

    Ай бұрын

    загугли FARA

  • @TruthingMMA
    @TruthingMMA Жыл бұрын

    They aren't Showing how they Attacked Georgia Police Unprovoked when they Attacked the Parliament Building

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    doesn't fit the narrative

  • @ResistenzaEuroAsiatica
    @ResistenzaEuroAsiatica Жыл бұрын

    Viva la libertà ❤🇬🇪♥️🇮🇹

  • @lecolonnedellavanti2955

    @lecolonnedellavanti2955

    Жыл бұрын

    Sottoscrivo!!!

  • @paolopetrozzi2213

    @paolopetrozzi2213

    Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @ResistenzaEuroAsiatica

    @ResistenzaEuroAsiatica

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paolopetrozzi2213 Certo certo. Sempre criminale rimane , cambia niente per me

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    🤡

  • @paolopetrozzi2213

    @paolopetrozzi2213

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ResistenzaEuroAsiatica Ed io ti ho già risposto che è un criminale insieme a tutta la sua combriccola. Il resto fai finta di ignorarlo?

  • @marcob1729
    @marcob1729 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to hear an explanation of the differences between this so called "direct translation" law and the law of the USA

  • @sirzebra

    @sirzebra

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @cg9952

    @cg9952

    Жыл бұрын

    USA doesn't slaughter civilians u Bot

  • @cg9952

    @cg9952

    Жыл бұрын

    Bots never reply

  • @marcob1729

    @marcob1729

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sirzebra any country can disfigure its laws. The USA is one that has

  • @adoatero5129

    @adoatero5129

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @leg414
    @leg414 Жыл бұрын

    Don't back down....Go and claim your freedoms and cause some change! Peace!

  • @tombakknd5300
    @tombakknd5300 Жыл бұрын

    Please provide a reference to the source for this Act

  • @cheebacheeobusiness3893
    @cheebacheeobusiness3893 Жыл бұрын

    Fight for your rights while you still can 💪

  • @krish_4872
    @krish_4872 Жыл бұрын

    Glory to the independent people of Georgia! You’re making the free world proud!

  • @pumpdump8809

    @pumpdump8809

    Жыл бұрын

    🤧🤧🤧🤣🤣🤣

  • @logicalsgt8829
    @logicalsgt8829 Жыл бұрын

    Georgia is not rusZia …. Kick those in charge before is too late. I’m with Georgia 🇬🇪 ✊

  • @Ed_Stuckey
    @Ed_Stuckey Жыл бұрын

    Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ~Thomas Paine

  • @pablodelsegundo9502
    @pablodelsegundo9502 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @pensatoreseneca

    @pensatoreseneca

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s the idea .. to open a new front to trouble Russia …

  • @josephstalin9357

    @josephstalin9357

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you ask Abhaz people

  • @brianwalker5843
    @brianwalker5843 Жыл бұрын

    Notice she said peaceful protesters just as a molotov cocktail was thrown at the Police. Things that make you go hmmm

  • @doifhg
    @doifhg Жыл бұрын

    That's a petty serendiptious number too, 76? Maybe just a coincidence of party lines but still weird

  • @-xirx-

    @-xirx-

    Жыл бұрын

    Please, what is the significance of the number 76?

  • @doifhg

    @doifhg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@-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

  • @-xirx-

    @-xirx-

    Жыл бұрын

    @@doifhg thankyou for the explanation

  • @user-uy8iy5nh1j
    @user-uy8iy5nh1jАй бұрын

    Umm why wouldnt you want to knw who is paying who?

  • @nickmail7604
    @nickmail7604 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    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???

  • @nickmail7604

    @nickmail7604

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Lirin
    @Lirin Жыл бұрын

    Sad day

  • @Nurse_Diesel
    @Nurse_Diesel Жыл бұрын

    Thats how you do it.

  • @alextrebek5237
    @alextrebek523710 ай бұрын

    @2:14 motolovs dont look that peaceful

  • @Thegreenatheo

    @Thegreenatheo

    Ай бұрын

    After the government sents robocops yeah

  • @darthvader4678
    @darthvader4678Ай бұрын

    Top quality commentary @2:03, the "mostly peacefull protesters" just happened to throw a few Molotov cocktails to the police.

  • @nikzombi
    @nikzombi Жыл бұрын

    peaceful protestors *a random protestor throws a peaceful molotov on the standing still police*

  • @querty985
    @querty9857 ай бұрын

    Someone explain what is this foreign agent law pls

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    It's to keep foreigners from interfering in elections, but the CIA wants to interfere so this happens

  • @Qartlos

    @Qartlos

    2 ай бұрын

    @@GScully42that’s a lie.

  • @Qartlos

    @Qartlos

    2 ай бұрын

    It forbids you to get funds from foreign countries. Basically shuts you down

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Qartlos explain

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    The West has similar laws preventing foreigners from interfering in elections, the CIA doesn't want that to happen.

  • @chellybub
    @chellybub Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @martlakokaia

    @martlakokaia

    Жыл бұрын

    it started as a peacful prostest. the molotovs came after the police released the tear gas and the water

  • @marcocasamassima389
    @marcocasamassima389 Жыл бұрын

    Chapeau Georgia! ❤

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    🤡

  • @Ac22768
    @Ac22768 Жыл бұрын

    This isn’t explained well.

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you're the only commenter with any brain cells

  • @stevemcgowen
    @stevemcgowen Жыл бұрын

    Georgians who aren’t Orc lovers need to take this opportunity to have a revolution. There won’t be a better chance…

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? Who are you and why do you want to destroy Georgia?

  • @stevemcgowen

    @stevemcgowen

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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...

  • @ALM-yy3cf
    @ALM-yy3cfАй бұрын

    wouldn't this "russian law" work against russian influencers in georgia in the first place?

  • @hareshlv
    @hareshlv Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    What is this freedom you speak of?

  • @hareshlv

    @hareshlv

    2 ай бұрын

    @@GScully42 something the commies will not understand.

  • @kosh2001
    @kosh2001 Жыл бұрын

    Way to go Georgia from America!

  • @virgiliustancu9293
    @virgiliustancu9293 Жыл бұрын

    Why this law is controversial? This law is also in US and EU.

  • @paolopetrozzi2213

    @paolopetrozzi2213

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @GScully42

    @GScully42

    2 ай бұрын

    @@paolopetrozzi2213 sounds like some bs to me.

  • @paolopetrozzi2213

    @paolopetrozzi2213

    2 ай бұрын

    @@GScully42 What, exactly?

  • @joaomaxado65
    @joaomaxado65 Жыл бұрын

    This time Georgia can have western support. But it will take some time to arrive... So, be patient and resilient as the Ukrainians.

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    Yankies go home

  • @joaomaxado65

    @joaomaxado65

    Жыл бұрын

    It seems that hundreds of thousands of Russians are there (fleeing from conscription) !!! So. Are the Russians who must go home !

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joaomaxado65 well there's hundreds of thousands of Georgians living happily in Russia LOL!

  • @mcata3625
    @mcata3625 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Zockopa

    @Zockopa

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly.

  • @pensatoreseneca
    @pensatoreseneca Жыл бұрын

    The US wanting to open another front.. poor Georgians so naive are likely to become another Ukraine.

  • @stevemcgowen

    @stevemcgowen

    Жыл бұрын

    Aww. Orc troll so upset and paranoid. Cope more Orc…

  • @pensatoreseneca

    @pensatoreseneca

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @lecolonnedellavanti2955

    @lecolonnedellavanti2955

    Жыл бұрын

    Have a vodka enema and chill out.

  • @paolopetrozzi2213

    @paolopetrozzi2213

    Жыл бұрын

    Ehi, axx. Hole, have you not been drafted yet?

  • @TheCroupier74

    @TheCroupier74

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha ha ha. Blame everyone but yourself hey orc face.

  • @v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096
    @v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096 Жыл бұрын

    She was so unfull of info.

  • @asanitationstompout8473
    @asanitationstompout8473 Жыл бұрын

    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..... .. . 👉🏿ukrinform|minusrus

  • @mcata3625

    @mcata3625

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣

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