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A law that has sparked mass protests in Georgia faces its final reading before parliament on Monday as part of a government effort to curb foreign influence on the country. The third and final reading of what critics have dubbed the “Russian law” will begin on Monday in Tbilisi, before a vote in the plenary scheduled for Tuesday, parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said. The governing majority of the Georgian Dream party say they wish to create more transparency in the foreign funding of non-governmental organizations (NGO). However tens of thousands in the former Soviet state have joined…

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