Organizations that get more than 20% of their financing from outside would have to register as agents of foreign influence under the “foreign agents” bill.
Critics in Georgia claim the bill is modeled after Russian laws that repress dissent.
Many residents have opposed it since they don’t like Russia after Vladimir Putin’s 2008 brief war on their nation.
In spite of this, on Wednesday afternoon, the Georgian parliament approved the bill for a second reading.
For the past month, there have been increasingly frequent protests in the streets of Tbilisi. On Wednesday night, a packed assembly of tens of thousands of people.
