According to the World Bank’s 2012 Ease of Doing Business Ranking, Georgia has moved forward and got the 9th place. Needless to say putting in place appropriate and progressive legislation is very good. Indeed throughout the years many positive refor
A secretly recorded conversation between Irakli Chikovani, the head of the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) and a representative of the Caucasus Online (CO) was aired by Maestro TV on November 6, once more raising questions about a
According to information obtained by Transparency International Georgia, government representatives pressured land owners in Anaklia into giving up their lands during the period 2009-2010. While this information was previously known to the public, no
A wave of protests took place at hospitals in the regions and in Tbilisi last week. The protests were organized by the medical personnel who where dissatisfied with their overdue and decreasing salary, and the way the hospitals have been managed by t
As we wrote last year, the Property Management Agency of the Tbilisi Mayor’s Office rejected TI Georgia’s request to provide a copy of the contract that had been signed between the Tbilisi Mayor’s Office and the Geo Gold company and whereby the latte
In cooperation with the Parliament of Georgia Apparatus and within the framework of our parliamentary monitoring project, in 2012 TI Georgia started collecting procedural information about initiated draft laws and observing existing lawmaking practic
Two weeks after the October 1 parliamentary election, changes in the political landscape are already reflected by structural changes in Georgia’s highly politicized television landscape. Recent changes in ownership of several TV stations indicate tha
Like almost everyone in Georgia, we have a lot of questions about what will happen over the next few months as power transfers to the Georgian Dream. We can’t predict the future, of course, but we decided to do some research to answer some of our own
Watch this page for the latest updates from our mission observing Georgia's 2012 Parliamentary Elections. We'll post the latest updates at the top of this page. Oct 2, 16:00: President Mikheil Saakahsvili has conceded the defeat of this ruling Unite
On August 20, 2012, the founder of the NGO Georgia Not for Sale, Giga Nasaridze, announced on behalf of the organization that they would produce election-themed videos for any party who shares their political views. Nasaridze also stated that the Uni