From January 1 to October 25, 2021, 25 political parties received donations totaling GEL 23,227,322, of which 71% - GEL 16,585,660 went to the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party, Lelo for Georgia was second with GEL 2,330,556, and

 Transparency International Georgia, based on open data and public information, has collected large infrastructure projects to be implemented in Kutaisi as promised by politicians. These projects had been announced for years and public presentat

 Transparency International Georgia has twice evaluated the performance of the 2017 convocation of city councils in Batumi, Zugdidi, Poti, Kutaisi and Akhaltsikhe. These studies have shown that the problems identified in all the aforementioned C

 I. Key findings and recommendationsIn January-June, the 2021 state budget received more Receipts than planned. The plan was fulfilled by 103.5%. The increase in the Receipts was due to higher-than-expected economic growth;The 6-month privatizat

 Note: This article was written by Transparency International Georgia and published on June 21 as part of a project titled Eastern Partnership Plus implemented by the German think tank Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod). The original publication

 I.Main findingsOn June 28, 2021 Parliament of Georgia with the third hearing adopted amendments to the Election Code aimed at improving electoral legislation. The working process lasted for a few months and the final version of the amendments a

 Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) continues a systematised process of collecting information about cases of alleged high-level corruption in Georgia, which have been revealed in recent years and have not been investigated. Our goa

 On 10 June 2021, JSC Georgian Railway announced a tender worth GEL 52.8m to procure mainline rails and requested that the suppliers provide certificates established by the Eurasian Customs Union founded by Russia. The deadline for tender submis