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Georgia’s parliament voted on May 28 to overrule President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the controversial foreign agents law, moving the legislation closer to its likely enactment. The bill requires organizations that receive foreign funding to be labeled as “foreign agents” and mirrors repressive Russian legislation used to crack down on Kremlin regime critics. Zourabichvili vetoed the law on May 18, but Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili announced two days later that the ruling Georgian Dream party planned to overrule her vote. The legislation will now be sent back to Zourabichvili, who…

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