In 2022, the campaign to villify civil society intensified. The Georgian Dream fake news machine went into overdrive. False claims about NGO finance and the personal wealth and beliefs of senior leaders appeared on an almost daily basis. Posters appeared identifying those running some of the country's most high-profile NGOs, and questioning their commitment to Georgia. These very public attacks were followed by threats and physical violence, as the target audience for this propaganda took the law into their own hands.

In 2023, Georgian Dream attempted to introduce the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, aka The Foreign Agents Law or simply the 'Russia Law' due to its striking resemblance to a 2012 Russian Federation Law which sought to choke opposition in that country.

In this episode, we hear from two women who targeted by Georgian Dream - Nino Dolidze, who was at the time Executive Director of ISFED, the independent election observer, and Eka Gigauri, Executive Director of Transparency International Georgia, which focuses on exposing corruption. The journalist Anna Gvarishvili, Democracy Defenders co-founder Gvantsa Samkharadze and Droa Party politician Marika Mikiashvili help to explain the Russia Law and its implications.

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