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In 2023, from March 7 to March 9, mass protests erupted in Tbilisi against the Georgian analogue of the Russian “foreign agents” law. It proposed a registry for media and NGOs which receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad. Officially it targets the disclosure of money flows from abroad, but critics fear it could become an instrument for repression of the opposition. Police violently dispersed the protesters. But first the president, Salome Zurabishvili, took their side, and on March 9 the country's ruling party, Georgian Dream, promised to drop the law in the second hearing.