The US is trying to overthrow the current gov’t in the nation of Georgia with mass protests opposing the foreign agents law.
The proposed law is just like the one we have here in the USA.
You aren’t allowed to interfere in the USA but the USA can interfere in other countries.
“The proposed law is just like the one we have here in the USA.”
No, it’s not. Our law (FARA) applies to those who actually represent a foreign government’s interests in the US, especially as lobbyists. Such representation or lobbying are not illegal; FARA just requires that the representative or lobbyist register with the US government.
Russia’s law — expanded by your hero Vladimir Putin — now includes any private individual or group who receives any amount of foreign funding, whether from foreign governments, organizations or even citizens, and publishes ‘printed, audio, audio visual or other reports and materials.’” In Russia, the “foreign agents” law is one of the government’s major tools to suppress and punish dissent.
Under Russia’s law, anyone receiving funds from abroad can be designated a “foreign agent,” even if they are not acting at the direction of a foreign entity.
Under Russia’s law, if some babushka gets a Happy Birthday $10 merchandise card from her grandson in Tel Aviv, and she later writes a letter to the editor of her local newspaper complaining about a bad experience she had on a train trip she made from Moscow to the Urals, she is a foreign agent.