- label
- Georgian Dream foreign agent and grants criminalization arc (2024-2026)
- country
- Georgia
- authorization actor
- Bidzina Ivanishvili (Georgian Dream founder)
- created at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- end date text
- Ongoing
- id
- GEO-CAMP-001
- incident count
- 24
- incident ids
- institutional consequence
- Full civil society financing criminalized without government approval; bank account freezes on 7+ organizations; criminal summons issued to directors; ECHR case filed by 120+ NGOs and 16 media outlets; EU accession suspended; USAID suspended
- needs review
- false
- notes
- THIRD-COUNTRY EXPANSION — anchor campaign for Georgia. ACCELERATION METRIC: Georgia completed "Russian trajectory" (registration → criminalization) in under 12 months; Russia took 7 years. Analytically significant for comparative work. KEY STRUCTURAL DISTINCTION from Western Balkans: no ethnic/sovereignty framing — Georgian Dream uses "Global War Party" (NF-06) and "NGO Clan" (NF-02) frames. No "colonial governor" equivalent. REGIONAL COORDINATION SIGNAL: April 3 2024 — RS (BiH) published revised foreign agent draft SAME DAY as Georgian Parliament introduced law. Kyrgyzstan April 2. Sources: civil.ge (primary archive); transparency.ge; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; OCCRP; Social Justice Center Georgia.
- phase pattern
- Authorization (Ivanishvili Apr 2024) → Legislative execution (May 2024 foreign influence law) → Administrative operationalization (ACB/Anti-Corruption Bureau Aug 2024+) → Escalation (Grants Law Apr 2025) → Criminalization (March 4 2026)
- start date text
- 11/12/2020
- trigger event
- October 2024 parliamentary elections — Ivanishvili April 29 2024 speech explicitly links law to pre-election exhaustion of opposition and CSOs
- trigger type
- TR-04: Electoral Event
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