US FARA vs. Georgian Foreign Agents Law: Three Major Differences
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civil.ge ^
| 4/11/2024 | Ted Jonas
Who is Your Enemy? One of the most fundamental differences between the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the proposed Georgian foreign agents law is the historical context in which the two laws originated, and who they were directed against. The
US Congress adopted FARA in 1938 specifically to target lobbying and consulting firms acting on behalf of the Nazi German government. Concern about Soviet Communist agents also motivated the law. Of course, by 1938, the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt was already well aware that Nazi Germany presented a direct military and security threat to the country....
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Georgian parliament committee rejects presidential veto of the divisive 'foreign agents' legislation
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Le Monde ^
| 5/27/24 | AP
A Georgian parliament committee on Monday, May 27, rejected the president’s veto of the "foreign agents" legislation that has sparked massive protests for weeks. The
move by the parliament’s judiciary committee sets up the possibility of a vote of the full legislature on Tuesday to override President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the measure, which she and other critics say will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union.
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Georgian President Vetoes Foreign Agents Bill
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Sputnik News ^
| 5/18/24
TBILISI (Sputnik) - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said on Saturday that she vetoed the controversial foreign agents bill passed by the country's parliament earlier in May. On Tuesday, the Georgian parliament adopted a bill on foreign agents by a majority vote in the third and final reading at a plenary meeting. The
bill, if adopted, would require organizations to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they get over 20% of their funding from abroad. "I have vetoed the 'Russian' law. This law ... represents an obstacle on the European path. The veto is legally enforceable and...
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Georgian parliament approves controversial 'foreign agents' bill
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Arutz Sheva ^
| 15/5/24
The Georgian parliament on Tuesday approved in the third and final reading the so-called “foreign agents bill”, which requires media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Mass
protests against the law have swept the country...
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We don’t want to join Russia, breakaway Georgian region warns
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Politico ^
| 25th August 2023 | Gabriel Gavin
Georgia’s separatist-held region of Abkhazia has firmly rejected suggestions it could be annexed by Russia, insisting that its autonomy from Moscow is not up for discussion. In
a statement issued by the unrecognized South Caucasus state’s foreign ministry on Thursday, officials said that while it is “a steadfast ally of the Russian Federation,” its self-proclaimed statehood “is not a subject for debate.” The comments come shortly after the deputy chairman of the Kremlin’s Security Council, former president Dmitry Medvedev, hinted that Moscow could seek to absorb the two Russian-backed breakaway regions of neighboring Georgia — Abkhazia and South Ossetia. the...
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Georgian townhouse in Bath where Jane Austen's Persuasion was filmed for the BBC is on the market for £4.5 million - boasting 11 bedrooms, a ballroom and a library
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UK Daily Mail ^
| November 11, 2022 | Elmira Tanatavora
A stunning Georgian townhouse, once used to film a 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, is now on the market for £4.5 million. The
Grade II listed property in Bath was used in the 1995 BBC recreation of the infamous period author's novel, starring Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. It flaunts its own ballroom, library and ornate dining room, perfect for entertaining guests with Regency-era grandeur.
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Russia sends troops to Georgian border to 'set up checkpoint' as Kremlin denies plan to impose martial law and stop people from leaving after 260,000 fled Putin's draft in five days
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Daily Mail ^
| 9/26/2022 | Chris Pleasance
Russian troops have been deployed near the border with Georgia today even as the Kremlin tries to stamp out rumours that Putin is about to introduce martial law and ban people from leaving in order to avoid being conscripted into the army. Footage
geolocated to the small town of Chmi, on the main highway from Russia into Georgia's South Ossetia region, shows at least six soldiers sitting on top of an armoured vehicle passing a queue of cars in the direction of the crossing. Troops arrived to set up a checkpoint, sources told the Russia's RBC network, with the FSB...
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Russia sends troops to Georgian border to 'set up checkpoint' as Kremlin denies plan to impose martial law
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FOR MAILONLINE ^
| 26 September 2022 | By CHRIS PLEASANCE
Russia sends troops to Georgian border to 'set up checkpoint' as Kremlin denies plan to impose martial law and stop people from leaving after 260,000 fled Putin's draft in five days Russian troops were filmed arriving at border with Georgia Monday afternoon FSB said they were there to stop men storming the
crossing amid huge queue But it comes amid rumours Putin is preparing to declare martial law and ban fighting-age men from leaving after 260,000 fled in just five days Kremlin denied that any conversations about closing border had taken place Russian troops have been deployed near the border...
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Georgian MAGA voters ought to consider a full forensic audit of GOP results for governor
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realclearpolitics ^
| Kirk and Scottie
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Georgian President Blames Church for Low Vaccination Rates
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Pravoslavie ^
| 11/5/21
The Georgian Orthodox Church is among those to blame for the low COVID vaccination numbers among the population, the Georgian president believes. According
to Reuters’ COVID-19 Tracker, enough vaccine doses have been administered in Georgia to cover about 27% of the population, assuming every person needs 2 doses. President Salome Zourabichvili believes that the reluctance of many citizens is due to the fact that the Patriarchate of Georgia has not officially supported vaccination, reports Interfax-Religion. In February, the Holy Synod of the Georgian Church decided that it “will not be able to take responsibility for the promotion of vaccination, as...
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Georgian [Orthodox] Church Holding Prayerful Protest Against U.S. and European-Backed LGBT Propaganda Events
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Pravoslavie ^
| 7/5/21
On June 29, the Georgian Orthodox Church issued a statement strongly opposing the LGBTQ events that are currently being held in Tbilisi, warning against attempts to normalize sin against the wishes of the population. Seeing
that its plea was ignored, the Church issued another statement on Saturday, denouncing Western governments’ interference in the public and spiritual life of Georgia, and announcing a prayer service to be held this evening to “show the world that we are defending our dignity and that any attempt to degenerate our people is utterly unacceptable to us.” The statement reads in full: In the statement...
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A miracle in Georgia: We did not have an epidemic although churches never closed, says Georgian hierarch
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Orthodox Christianity ^
| 6 July A.D. 2020 | Staff
A nation that is faithful to God and its fatherland will be miraculously blessed by God, His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel of Chiatura and Sachkhere of the Georgian Orthodox Church said during his Sunday sermon at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. A miracle was seen in Georgia, where there was no eruption of the
coronavirus epidemic despite the fact that the churches were never closed, as in many other countries, Met. Daniel emphasized, reports 1tv.ge. “The Georgian ethos is one of the first,” Met. Daniel said. “Someone may ask how it survived. It survived for two reasons: it was dedicated to the...
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VIDEO: 39-year old Georgian COVID-19 survivor shares his story (another Hydroxychloroquine anecdotal success story)
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95.5 WSB Atlanta's News & Talk Radio ^
| 05/02/2020 | Jesse Brooks
When you think of the average critical COVID-19 patient, someone like Ben King may not come to mind. King
is a 39-year old former professional athlete, healthy, with no pre-existing conditions. But after returning from a family cruise in early March, Ben King began to experience many of the symptoms of the coronavirus. In a video shared with 95.5 WSB, King and his wife, nurse Kristen, shared his experience. “My husband woke up and was running a 102.9 temperature, he was coughing his head off. He was really, really sick,” Kristen explained. “We work out, we run. We’re in pretty...
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All Georgian Churches Will be Open for Pascha Despite Quarantine
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Pravoslavie ^
| 4/3/20
All parishes and monasteries in Georgia will remain open for Palm Sunday and Pascha, His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II wrote in an address published on the official site of the Georgian Patriarchate on Wednesday. “Any person, at the time of a trial, seeks for deliverance and consolation,” His Holiness said. “Today,
when a new infection that has spread throughout the world threatens the life of the population, it is natural that parishioners would place special hopes in the Lord and be drawn to church.” “For believers, spiritual food is just as important and necessary as physical food; therefore, it is...
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Georgian Church Responds to Attacks: Closing Churches is “Unjustified Offense Against God”
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Pravoslavie ^
| 3/26/20
The Georgian Patriarchate issued a strong statement yesterday, both reiterating its call for the faithful to follow necessary sanitary guidelines and responding to those who are attacking the Church’s ancient practices. In
many places where services have continued and the faithful have continued to partake of Holy Communion, those who are ill-disposed to the holy Orthodox faith, including amongst media representatives, are loudly attacking the Church and its hierarchs, accusing them of putting people in danger, such as in Serbia and Ukraine, as OrthoChristian reported yesterday. The same is happening in Romania, and in Georgia as well, as testified to...
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Georgian, Ukrainian Clergy Blessing Streets with Holy Water, Wonderworking Icons During Epidemic
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Pravoslavie ^
| 3/17/20
The Orthodox faithful throughout the world have been encouraged to increase their prayers and their focus on the spiritual life as the coronavirus continues to spread, while, of course, maintaining increased standards of hygiene. “If
we pray, entreat God, and repent of our sins, then we will destroy this sickness,” His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine preached on Sunday. “Therefore, the most important thing in this is not so much sanitary standards as it is prayer and repentance.” And a recent statement from the Georgian Patriarchate called on the faithful to read special prayers every day, while...
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Georgian [Orthodox] Church Calls Clergy, Faithful to Refrain From Aggressive Anti-LGBT Statements
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Pravoslavie ^
| 6/20/19
The Georgian Patriarchate issued another statement concerning the current LGBT events in Tbilisi today, calling for Christians to show restraint and discernment in how they speak about the hot-button issue. The
short statement reads in full: Recent events, connected with the so-called LGBT Pride, have tremendously aggravated the situation in the country.The Patriarchate of Georgia has also recorded its extremely negative attitude towards this.We understand that the emotional background has intensified, but we consider completely unacceptable and we disassociate ourselves from aggressive statements coming both from clergy and parishioners.First of all, we call upon the clergy to refrain from unauthorized...
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Georgian Businessman Releases Texts With Cohen That Were Left Out Of Mueller Report
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Daily Caller ^
| 04/24/2019 | Chuck Ross
A Georgian-American businessman is calling for a retraction of a footnote in the special counsel’s report that refers to a text message exchange with Michael Cohen about a rumored Trump sex tape. Giorgi
Rtskhiladze’s lawyer sent a letter to the attorney general claiming that the Mueller report has “glaring inaccuracies.” The report quoted a text message in which Rtskhiladze told Cohen he was “stopping the flow” of tapes of Trump. But in a text message left out of Mueller’s report, Rtskhiladze suggested he did not believe the rumor. .... "We Strongly demand that a full and immediate retraction of these...
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MEET THE MILLENNIAL GEORGIAN INSPIRING ASIAN-AMERICAN VOTERS
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OZY ^
| June 2018 | Nick Fouriezos
Sam Park picks at his lunch at El Torero, a Mexican restaurant in Duluth, a northeastern suburb of Atlanta. It’s a somewhat ironic choice, given that the 32-year-old politician could have picked from dozens of nearby places to emphasize his Korean heritage in a neighborhood where Eastern churches and Asian grocery stores
abound. This is home, though. And so the fact that Park knows his tacos as well as his Korean BBQ is kind of the point. Increasingly, the area will be known less as the “Seoul of the South,” than simply the modern iteration of “the South.” Gwinnett County,...
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Georgian Orthodox Church Will Wed 400 Straight Couples On International Day Against Homophobia
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NewKnowNext ^
| 05-14-2018 | Jeff Taylor
The Georgian Orthodox Church is protesting International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) by holding a mass wedding of 400 heterosexual couples. The
church, a vehemently ant-gay denomination with 3.5 million members worldwide, previously declared May 17 “Family Purity Day.” Organized by the reactionary group Patriarchate’s Chokhosnebi, the mass wedding is just the latest assault on the annual remembrance: In 2012, Orthodox priests led an attack against the first IDAHOT demonstration in Tbilisi. A small group of pro-LGBT activists, several of whom were injured, had to be led away by police in a bus. An IDAHOT rally the following year...
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