Kobakhidze Expects State Grant Agency, Created Amid NGO Crackdown, to Shut Down Soon

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said the State Grant Management Agency, created last year as part of the civil society crackdown, is “phasing out” and will close by the end of the year, in media remarks where he also described NGOs as an “artificial phenomenon” created as a foreign meddling tool. “The [State] Grant …