On 3 September, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia refused to register Salome Zourabichvili as a candidate for the 2013 presidential elections. Zourabichvili holds both Georgian and French citizenship. The CEC cited Article 29(1¹) of th

Georgia has a new government authority that is tasked with protecting people’s right to privacy. Its powers however may not be sufficient to stop the Ministry of Interior’s unchecked systematic surveillance of electronic communication. We currently

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is shutting down TV9, a channel owned by his family, by September 1 unless a buyer emerges in the coming days. Although the Prime Minister stated that has been trying to sell the channel for some 10 month, employees

For three days in July this year, lawyers from the Batumi office of Transparency International (TI) Georgia visited 12 villages in Upper Adjara to provide free legal consultation for the local population.  The Adjaristskali River hydroelectric

The village of Taia in Chkhorotsku Municipality lies in a highly mountainous zone. As well as the other problems caused by its inaccessible location, one of the most serious is the grave situation of its local, municipal kindergarten. Due to lack of

The level of independence of the Georgian judiciary system has been questioned for several years. After the October 2012 elections, the new government drafted amendments to the Law on Common Courts. These amendments were adopted on May 21st, 2013. Th

Giorgi Margvelashvili claimed that he has resigned from his post of a Minister of Education and Science of Georgia to take a step towards setting the “new political standard”.  Since the law did not oblige him to do so, we may evaluate his move

© Rustavi 2   Rustavi 2 has been at the center of Georgian politics and shaping public perceptions for more than a decade. Today, the ownership of the country’s largest private media outlet – last year, it reported revenues of GEL 30.7 million

The Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia is in need of various reforms. For years, the main aim of its statutes was to increase the rights of the investigative bodies and the current version of the law does not ensure equal procedure rights to the part

Public and media attention in recent days was drawn to a planned restaurant construction in one Tbilisi's protected territories, located on the road leading to Turtle Lake. Tbilisi residents often come here to relax, exercise and take a walk with chi