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Investor or Ecologically Clean Environment
A new set legal ammendments exempts investors from any legal responsibiilty for negative impacts on the environment, such as pollution and contamination, that their project has caused.
“Pre-election” Student Employment
The amount of large-scale, one-time budgetary programs implemented by the government usually increases with the forthcoming of elections. Most recently such kind of a novelty appeared in a form of so called “Summer Job”, a new student summer employment program initiated by the President, which raises a lot of questions.
Political Parties’ Millions of Uncertain Origin
The origins are unknown for the 38% (2 278 442 GEL) of the United National Movement’s total income and for the 6% (53 289 GEL) of the Christian-Democratic Movement’s income.
TV stations air coordinated news coverage of Kimeridze death case
When the national television outlets - Imedi TV, Rustavi 2 and the Georgian Public Broadcaster’s Channel 1 - reported about the tragic death of 46-year old Solomon Kimeridze in a police station in the town of Khashuri, one fact was striking: Not only were the images used to cover the case largely identical, but the wording used by news anchors to report the case was almost word by word the same
Georgian Budget Code Encouraging Lack of Transparency
This is the second in a two-part series of blog posts on changes to Georgia's Budget Code. Read the first post here.
Government Subsidy for Small Ads Puts Newspapers at Disadvantage
If you want to sell your apartment, your car or an old television set, you probably think about placing a small advertisement in a newspaper or online to find an interested buyer. A project by the Georgian Public Registry encourages citizens to call or send the details of such private ads to them.
Send the Georgian government your suggestions
If you wanted to provide a suggestion to your government, or express a concern, do you think they would listen? Would you even know where to send your feedback? For people around the world, the answer to both of these questions is often “No.”
“Philanthropic” National Movement
“United National Movement - free soup-kitchen for the financially disadvantaged”. This sign was hanging on the soup kitchen’s door in Ozurgeti up until 15:10p.m on 17th of February, 2012. A similar signboard was found in Zugdidi and Dusheti at the entrance of free dining-halls. These facts constitute the direct violation of several laws.
