Georgian protesters celebrate big win
A young woman holds a Georgian national flag and an EU flag during a rally against a draft law aimed at curbing the influence of “foreign agents” near the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Following days of massive protests, Georgia’s governing party said Thursday it would withdraw draft legislation that opponents warned would stifle dissent and curtail media freedoms, ushering in Russian-style repression.
Lawmakers in Georgia say they’re now scrapping plans to introduce a measure that would have required media organizations and NGOs getting more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence.” And, amid Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, many of the country’s top athletes returned back to their rigorous training routines. This fencer and wrestler are both focused on gold at next summer’s Olympics in Paris. Also, the self-described global artist Yun-Fei Ji grew up during China’s chaotic Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s. He landed in New York City in the 1990s, where he expanded his art practice by living in two worlds. Plus, remembering Chaim Topol, who played Tevye in the acclaimed “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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