REPORTING – In the hands of an oligarch enriched in Russia, the Georgian Dream party, in power in Tbilisi, is doing everything to undermine relations with the West. But many NGOs refuse to comply with its ukases.
Tbilisi
It was a summer that felt like a wake for battle, both for the government and for the active fringe of Georgian civil society. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reject the resolutely pro-Russian shift taken by the ruling Georgian Dream party of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, and apprehend the parliamentary elections of October 26 as the last chance to avoid a return to Moscow’s orbit. Thirty-three years after a painfully won independence, the climate is heavy on the foothills of the Greater Caucasus.
It has been four months since the so-called law was adopted “on foreign agents “, text also called ” Russian law ” by its opponents during the two months of daily demonstrations that it sparked in the spring. At the beginning of August, this device on ” transparency of foreign influence “, as the regime officially called it, came into effect. From then on, the country’s more than 25,000 NGOs (which have a status…
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