"Why can the U.S. have this law and we can't? We have simply taken what has existed in the USA since 1938"

That's how folks usually justify the Russian law on foreign agents. I honestly didn't know the difference myself. But with the recent Georgian protests, the message "it's just a copycat of the US one" has entered Russian information field.

So, the question arose: Maybe the laws are really the same?

All the differences I've found are in this video.

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Sources – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f...

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Navigation:
0:00 – Intro
1:19 – The Key Difference in laws
8:28 – How the US law changed
15:16 – Transition to lobbying
19:09 – Sugar quotas mess
23:05 – Dumb requirement about labelling
28:06 – Summarization

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