Georgia's law on Broadcasting gives the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) the power to allocate television and radio broadcast licenses. Rather than allowing the market to govern the decision, the law unusually tasks the commission w

Update: 27.04.2011 For media inquiries regarding the report referenced in this post, please contact Global Financial Integrity, +1 202 293 0740, Washington, DC. gfip@gfip.org Georgia has seen an outflow of illicit money of USD 4.1 to 4.3 billion in t

Georgia has excellent freedom of information (FOI) legislation, but public officials do not seem to be fully aware and may thus hamper public’s exercise of rights. Georgian legislation commands that public information be released immediately upon req

GeoStat, the Georgian Government’s agency that is in charge of statistical information, has started to charge for many of the useful data it collects from January 1, 2011 on. The Board of the National Statistics Office approved the collection of fees