Mikheil Kavelashvili

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Journalists in a press room watch Mikheil Kavelashvili, Georgia's newly elected president and leader of the Georgian Dream party, take the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony at the parliament building in Tbilisi, on December 29, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Shlamov)

Georgia media face fewer ‘ways to survive’ amid foreign funding crackdown

New York, May 30, 2025—A punishing spate of laws targeting foreign-funded media will dramatically curb Georgia’s independent voices and force many news outlets to shutter or shift their business operations, say Georgian journalists and press freedom advocates. Georgia’s populist ruling Georgian Dream party has pushed through its new Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)—called an “exact copy” of the U.S. Foreign…

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