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

Salome Zurabishvili says protests in Tbilisi prove Georgians ‘will never return to Russian pressure’

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Georgia is “returning to the past” through the new foreign agents law, the president of the former Soviet state has said, as EU ministers urged 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.