It's Russia versus the West again, this time playing out in tiny Georgia
A tug of war between Moscow and the West is playing out in Georgia — not the U.S. state, but the small Black Sea nation tucked into the Caucasus mountain region. And the political stakes just rose dramatically.
Georgia's parliament on Tuesday overrode a presidential veto of a measure that critics have dubbed the "Russian law" — dealing a crippling setback to hopes by pro-democracy forces that the former Soviet republic will be able to one day join the European Union.
Opponents consider the bill a heavy-handed attempt to stifle media freedom and to try to block the measure. Now, barring some last-minute reversal, the parliamentary speaker is set to sign it into law within five days if the president refuses to do so.
