Russian money is funneled differently, mostly directly through politicians or satellite businesses, not through ngo’s. And that money is for different purposes, it’s not aid for cultural exchange or human rights or marginalized groups or independent media organizations so the system does not apply. This bill is specifically to harass ngo’s and independent or opposition media. Even the host on main propaganda channel slipped up and straight up admitted that it’s to protect from “foreign influence” other than Russia.
Another important point for context is that majority (if not all) of independent observers on elections are (obviously) members of ngo’s. Georgian Dream must fear that their usual election fraud of 5-7% along with their abuse systems for forcing govmt employees’ and parole citizens’ votes (also somewhere in that range) is no longer enough to get the majority, and to commit even larger fraud, they need to have a reason for disqualifying all the independent observers.