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Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

  • Written by Maxim Krupskiy, Visiting scholar, Russia and Eurasia Program, Tufts University
Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracyGeorgians protest a foreign agent bill that mirrored a Russian law used to crack down on dissent.Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images

After several days of mass protests and clashes between protesters and police in early March, the ruling party of Georgia, a former Soviet state located in the Caucasus, succumbed to pressure and abandoned its proposed...

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