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By Tornike Mandaria in Tbilisi Tensions are reaching a boiling point in Tbilisi as protests mount against the bill ‘Transparency of Foreign Influence’, which has sparked anger across Georgia and concerns in the West. On Tuesday, Riot police moved into the crowd of demonstrators, clearing them from around part of the country’s parliament, as inside the building lawmakers debated the bill that is widely denounced as authoritarian. It mandates organisations such as media or NGOS that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as being influenced by foreign powers. The bill has…

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