Georgia | The president vetoes the criticized law on “foreign influence”

(Tbilisi) Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili announced on Saturday that she had vetoed the controversial law on “foreign influence”, which sparked mass protests in this Caucasian country.


“Today, I veto […] on the law which is Russian in its essence and which contradicts our Constitution,” declared Mr.me Zourabichvili, while the text adopted this week by Parliament is denounced by its detractors as aiming to divert Georgia from Europe and drag it towards Russia.


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