Summary
- Georgia’s ruling party created a hostile environment for foreign-funded NGOs before the passage of the “Russian law”
- The Foreign Influence Law forces NGOs receiving substantial support from abroad to register as “foreign-funded organisations”
- ISFED, an election monitoring NGO funded partly by the EU and US, will have to register and faces threats and smear campaigns
- The director of ISFED states they will have to close due to the stigmatization of being labeled as a “foreign agent”
