According to the logic of the so-called People's Power bill, Papuashvili was an agent of foreign influence, because he did not work anywhere else except GIZ, Kobakhidze also turns out to be an agent of foreign influence, because he was a hired expert of USAID, Strategy Builder MP Paata Manjgaladze said.

According to him, declaring a person and organization as agents of foreign influence based only on the source of funding is the Russian model.

"The so-called People's Power project is a direct copy of the Russian law. As for the American law, it is almost 100 years old and was adopted as a curb for the propaganda of Nazi Germany, and many changes have been made to this law since then. In 2012, a law was adopted in Russia and all organizations and legal persons who are financed by the West were declared agents and they were restricted from conducting lectures, television broadcasting, journalists were restricted from carrying out their activities. Belarus, China and Venezuela also adopted such a law. Georgian Dream repeats their path one by one," Manjgaladze said.

For information, according to the draft law submitted to the Parliament by People's Power deputies, "in order to ensure the transparency of foreign influence", a register of agents of foreign influence will be created, where all those non-profit legal entities and media outlets will be registered, whose incomes are financed by foreign forces for more than 20%. Let us also remind you that according to the spokesman of the US State Department, Ned Price, the draft law on non-governmental and media organizations, which involves the creation of a "register of agents of foreign influence", could potentially undermine Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration. According to Ned Price, "this draft legislation appears to be based on similar Russian and Hungarian legislation, not on FARA or any other American legislation".

source: IPN