There were gripping scenes inside and outside the Georgian parliament—including the sight of Georgian opposition lawmaker Aleko Elisashvili punching the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Mamuka Mdinaradze, in the head—on April 15 as a controversial “foreign agents” bill passed a committee-stage vote. Mdinaradze was physically attacked by Elisashvili as he attempted to introduce the bill, which has caused a lot of division in Georgia because of its similarity to Russian legislation used by the Kremlin to silence critics and severely limit the work of non-profit groups and media that re…