In an interview with CNN, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili again criticized the bill “on foreign agents” and noted that it is a copy of Putin’s law. She said she would veto the decision.

The ruling party of Georgia and its allies in parliament approved in the first reading the bill “On Transparency of Foreign Influence,” known as the “foreign agents” law. It obliges foreign-funded non-governmental organizations and media to register in a special register and fill out annual declarations.

The Kremlin confirmed the withdrawal of the Russian military contingent from Nagorno-Karabakh, which was there on a peacekeeping mission by agreement between Baku, Yerevan and Moscow. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

Azerbaijan's actions and official statements towards France have always been only a response to its destructive activities. Despite Paris's smear campaign against Azerbaijan, the country has always kept the doors of dialogue open. This is how the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry commented on France’s decision to recall its ambassador from Baku.

After a criminal case was opened for “justifying terrorism,” KBR native Zalina Marshenkulova was put on the federal wanted list. According to investigators, she posted publications in the public channel of the Telegram messenger that justified the murder of the Russian “military correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky.

The Circassian people survived the most brutal genocide by the Russian Empire, which continues to this day. Its representatives support the people of Ukraine and call on their fellow countrymen not to participate in the war on the side of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the appeal of the leaders of a number of organizations of the Circassian diaspora abroad.

In Tbilisi, another protest took place near the parliament building against the law on foreign agents being discussed by the ruling Georgian Dream party. If it is adopted, media and non-profit organizations will lose their rights and freedoms, opponents of the law say.

If the bill on foreign agents is adopted in Georgia, it will negatively affect the work of the media and NGOs, including those working in the field of human rights and democracy. This was stated in a letter from Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O'Flaherty addressed to the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili.

Russian writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili), born in Georgia and living abroad, commented on the plans of the authorities of his homeland to approve the law on “foreign agents”.

The Belogorsky District Court in Crimea agreed with the decision of the lower court and decided to fine human rights activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov 40 thousand rubles for “abuse of freedom of mass information” and “disagreement with the actions of the RF Armed Forces.”