The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) is another major German foundation, after the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), to announce an exit from Georgia amid funding restrictions introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party as part of its crackdown on media and civil society. FNF said in its October 2 statement that it ceased operations in Georgia and closed its Tbilisi office, saying restrictions under Georgia’s Law on Grants had ma…
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