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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Tbilisi

Georgia ‘returning to the past’ with foreign agents law, says president

Demonstrators, one holding a Georgian flag, approach a line of riot police
Law enforcement officers stand guard near parliament in Tbilisi on Tuesday as demonstrators hold a rally to protest against the foreign agents bill. Photograph: Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters

Georgia is “returning to the past” through the new foreign agents law, the president of the former Soviet state has said, as EU ministers urge the government to “take a way out”.

Speaking at a press conference with the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Iceland, Salome Zurabishvili said the governing Georgian Dream party had diverted the country down a “very serious” road.

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