Georgia’s Law on Foreign Agents, Protests and AftermathA conversation with Johnny G. Melikian<ul><li>On March 7, the Georgian parliament voted into law a bill that would require political actors to clarify their foreign funding sources and their activities to lobby lawmakers with such funding. This ignited large protests in Tbilisi, and on March 9 the parliament agreed to rescind the law and to release arrested opposition members. We analyze the events and the outcome.</li></ul> Guest:<ul><li>Johnny G. Melikian is a senior research fellow at the Orbeli Center for analysis, and the head of the Center for Political and Legal Studies. He has worked as a consultant for the International Crisis Group, and was a visiting fellow at Georgia’s Ilia State University</li></ul> Hosts:<ul><li>Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevan</li><li>Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq</li></ul> Episode 238 | Recorded: March 15, 2023 Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: <a href='https://linktr.ee/groong'>linktr.ee/groong</a>

Georgia’s Law on Foreign Agents, Protests and Aftermath A conversation with Johnny G. MelikianOn March 7, the Georgian parliament voted into law a bill that would require political actors to clarify their foreign funding sources and their activities to lobby lawmakers with such funding. This ignited large protests in Tbilisi, and on March 9 the parliament agreed to rescind the law and to release arrested opposition members. We analyze the events and the outcome. Guest:Johnny G. Melikian is a senior research fellow at the Orbeli Center for analysis, and the head of the Center for Political and Legal Studies. He has worked as a consultant for the International Crisis Group, and was a visiting fellow at Georgia’s Ilia State University Hosts:Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevanAsbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq Episode 238 | Recorded: March 15, 2023 Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Georgia’s Law on Foreign Agents, Protests and AftermathA conversation with Johnny G. Melikian<ul><li>On March 7, the Georgian parliament voted into law a bill that would require political actors to clarify their foreign funding sources and their activities to lobby lawmakers with such funding. This ignited large protests in Tbilisi, and on March 9 the parliament agreed to rescind the law and to release arrested opposition members. We analyze the events and the outcome.</li></ul> Guest:<ul><li>Johnny G. Melikian is a senior research fellow at the Orbeli Center for analysis, and the head of the Center for Political and Legal Studies. He has worked as a consultant for the International Crisis Group, and was a visiting fellow at Georgia’s Ilia State University</li></ul> Hosts:<ul><li>Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevan</li><li>Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq</li></ul> Episode 238 | Recorded: March 15, 2023 Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: <a href="https://linktr.ee/groong" rel="noopener noreferrer">linktr.ee/groong</a>

Johnny Melikian | Georgia Foreign Agent Law, Protests and Aftermath | Ep. 238 - Mar 15, 2023

Weekly review of Armenian News from https://groong.org. Keeping up with news related to Armenia and Armenians can be challenging; the sheer volume of news in the past few years has increased greatly, and the rise of the “Fake News” phenomenon contributing to the erosion of trust in the news media. The diversity of languages used by the worldwide Armenian community also poses a challenge for Armenian news; there is a significant portion of news that originates in Armenian, sometimes in Russian, and does not get adequately translated into English, or Western Armenian, for those in the Diaspora who are not proficient in Eastern Armenian. Finally, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the political turbulence in countries where significant communities of the Armenian Diaspora reside, be it Syria, Lebanon, the United States, etc., many of our friends and colleagues indicate that they’re simply overloaded with information and lack the time and energy to separate the good from the bad. So we’re creating this weekly digest of news and analysis that we find relevant to share with our friends and the wider ANN/Groong audience. Our goal is to provide a brief overview of the main headlines of the past week, and then cover a smaller set of the more important developments, curated by ANN/Groong editors and contributors who spend an inordinate amount of time daily to process Armenian news. We hope that over time this podcast will help our listeners in becoming more astute consumers of Armenian news. We will strive to provide a rich set of notes with each installation, with links to the most relevant articles and information as a starting point for your further investigation.

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