Ivanishvili-linked MPs that claim to be a separate party but have not even formally left the parliamentary majority have now come up with an initiative to curtail work of Georgia’s civil society with a Kremlin-style piece of legislation.
Calling NGOs part of “foreign espionage” and “threat to Georgian sovereignty,” the Power of the People, self-style group of MPs said the state should constrain the NGOs ability to receive foreign funding, citing a 1938 US Foreign Agent Registration Act.
The same American law was cited by the Russian government when it imposed severe restrictions on foreign funding for NGOs in Russia, declaring them “foreign agents.”
“I don't know Russian legislation at all, I only overheard it. This [law] they took from America,” Sozar Subari, a hardliner in the Ivanishvili group of MPs said. “The double standard, that yes, I want this law for me, but not for you, because I want to rule you through my agents, is an absolutely unacceptable and insulting approach to an independent state," he added.
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