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Its terms would oblige top American officials to brief Congress on “nodes of improper political influence, kleptocracy, and elite corruption in Georgia,” as well as on suspected Russian and Chinese intelligence assets operating in the South Caucasus country.

Authorities have responded to tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to demonstrate by deploying tear gas and water cannon, and beating and detaining activists and opposition politicians.

The foreign agent bill passed its third reading in the Georgian parliament last week, but will require a majority of MPs to vote it through for a final time in the coming days after the country’s independent president exercised her symbolic veto power.

Analysts and opposition politicians lay the blame for Georgia’s increasingly anti-Western stance at the door of Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister and founder of Georgian Dream who amassed his vast fortune in Russia.

At a rally in defense of the foreign agent law last month, he accused the country’s NGOs of doing the bidding of a shadowy “global war party” that was responsible for creating conflict with Russia, in an echo of Kremlin-style propaganda.

Tina Bokuchava, the leader of the largest opposition bloc in the Georgian parliament, the United National Movement, told POLITICO she hoped American lawmakers would support the U.S. legislation.

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