brainrein, Can anybody explain the difference to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in the USA and why one (America’s of course) is within Western democratic values and the other is not?
I think it’s a quite valuable information which countries are taking part in the opinion forming in my country and on who’s side of the political spectrum in my country they’re acting on.
I just read a lot of articles about the Russian Law in Western media and not one mentions its similarities to the American law.
I know that Russia puts a lot of effort into supporting rightwing and leftwing organizations in the Western world. Although it’s disgusting I understand that it’s in their interest. They are definitely not the good ones and it’s our task to stop that influence.
I am sure that we are doing the same all over the world but nobody’s talking about except Russia. We are not the good ones, too.
HowRu68, (edited ) Just found this interesting background explainer article about the Bill: “In Georgia, Russian émigrés see familiar Kremlin tactics” france24 art
" This law is reminiscent of legislation that came into force in Russia about ten years ago which initially targeted human rights NGOs financed by Western countries and gradually turned into a powerful tool of political repression."
FreudianCafe, The bill, passed Tuesday, requires media, nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofit groups to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
Wow i wonder why western MIM cares so much about it
pimento64, Fuck off Ivan
Bartsbigbugbag,
Cuntessera, It’s great that she’s gonna veto a bad bill, but isn’t it counterproductive to democracy if a president can just veto what the parliament does? Like one person holding the power of a whole parliament?
ThunderclapSasquatch, Once vetoed the bill goes back to the legislative branch, where they can overrule a veto if it reaches a certain supermajority. Or they could change it and send it back up the line as a new bill
meldrik, A veto will only postpone the bill.
Cuntessera, Could you please explain how this works? What’s the point of the veto then?
SubArcticTundra, (edited ) I think it’s supposed to act as a soft power veto by sending the bill back for one more reading. Unfortunately soft power is not a thing in ex-Eastern bloc countries
Cuntessera, Ok, that makes sense in principle, although, as you said, it leaves much room for abuse. Thanks for explaining it!
Vincent, I think usually something like that is intended to as a counterweight, to prevent power from centralising.
However, to prevent the scales from tipping too badly, a sufficient majority in parliament can override the veto, and I believe the party that’s pushing this (Georgian Dream) has enough seats to be able to do this.
(Caveat: I’m not Georgian, so this is just based on somewhat above average interest in politics and in the country, following my local news.)
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