Transparency Law, and the content of this law has nothing to do with the content of the Russian law about NGOs, its only about transparency, said the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, in an interview with Euronews.

“Euronews: Looking in, it seems that you’re matching certain Kremlin narratives in terms of some of the policies and laws that are being introduced here, such as the “foreign agents” and LGBTQ+ laws. Is that something that you would say is following in their footsteps?

Kobakhidze: These are the decisions made by the Georgian government. And these decisions have nothing to do with the decisions made by the Russian government.

We have introduced the Transparency Law, and the content of this law has nothing to do with the content of the Russian law about NGOs, its only about transparency.

The other thing which is envisaged by this law is to ensure that the NGOs are publicising their annual financial declarations to the Minister of Justice, and that’s it.

There are no restrictions. That’s why this messaging about the Russian law was completely fake. And the laws about LGBTI, that’s also our national decision”.