As Georgia presses on with 'Russia-style' laws, its citizens...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Support for EU membership was already high, but after the invasion, polls showed about 74% of Georgians were in favor.
54% : It also vowed to pursue EU membership and ties with the U.S., reassuring those Georgians who looked to the West to protect them from their overbearing northern neighbor.
48% : (Georgian Parliament via AP, File)FILE Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the created by him the Georgian Dream party greets demonstrators during a rally in support of "Russian law" in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 29, 2024, a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
43% : Georgia´s pro-EU President Salome Zourabichvili used her veto, but parliament overrode her with a simple majority, and the bill became law.
42% : In a speech on April 29 that baffled Tbilisi´s EU partners, Ivanishvili charged that a "global party of war" is secretly channeling funds into Georgia through nonprofits, to topple the government and turn Georgians into "cannon fodder" in a war with Russia.

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