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Georgia’s President Salome Zurabishvili has launched a constitutional challenge against a controversial ‘transparency of foreign influence’ law introduced by the country’s Georgian Dream government. Passed in May, the law mandates stringent regulations on foreign-funded media and NGOs. It has sparked massive street protests and strained Georgia’s relations with Western allies. The legislation is said to ape the Russian “foreign agents” law, heightening fears that its introduction means Tbilisi is moving ever closer to Kremlin-style suffocation of liberal democracy. Presidential parliamentary s…

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