Hungary’s sovereignty chief referred to the American FARA, but the government’s proposed foreign agent law follows a very different logic


Before Tamás Lánczi, the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Russia tried to justify their own foreign agent laws by using the American example. With no good reason. The US FARA law does not threaten independent NGOs and media with closure, but it does require Russian and Chinese state media to register.

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