The Georgian Government undertook to fund the municipality of Tbilisi’s social security and medical insurance programmes by decrees #432, #433, #434 on October 19, 2012. These were signed into law  by the then acting prime minister Vano Me

New facts have surfaced concerning the infringement of local residents’ property rights in Mestia. Nearly 40 residents have complained that their properties rights have been infringed and their land illegally trespassed upon during the expansion of t

Technical equipment placed inside mobile telecommunications companies has allowed the authorities systematically monitor citizens’ mobile communications. Parliament should move to establish sufficient oversight over law-enforcement and security servi

Transparency International Georgia publishes second blog referring how representatives of local Prosecutor’s Office pressured Sairme population during 2009-2010 in order to concede their land properties to the state. In 2010, approximately 20 local

Transparency International Georgia publishes the third blog about pressure on landowner in Gonio from Mr. Davit Charbadze the prosecutor of the Adjarian Autonomous Republic’s Prosecutor’s Office in 2011. The victim, Khatuna Kakhidze said that she an

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