If the bill passes, it may create a barrier to Georgia’s EU and NATO aspirations, according to Dekanoidze. “Georgian citizens, especially the younger generation, call this bill ‘Russian’ because Russia had the same [passed] one in 2012,” she said. “They recognized as foreign agents such people as [Alexei] Navalny, [Ivan] Zhdanov, who were then either killed by [Russian dictator Vladimir] Putin, or they left Russia. Therefore, I think that what awaits Georgia [if the bill is passed] is becoming another Belarus, where people realize that no democracy can take root.” If the parliament supports th…