Trialeti TV, based in Gori, alleges that the Georgian National Communications Commission is granting special treatment to a local competitor. In recent months, Dia, another local TV station in the Shida Kartli region, has become more visible.
Social health insurance is one of the means to create more accessible health care, which is one of the main priorities of Georgia’s National Health Care Strategy 2011-2015, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs. As a result of t
Update 10.05.2012: The City Hall has said that will cancel the contracts signed with Greenservice and will send the case to the law enforcement agencies for further examination. Residents of Tbilisi have probably noticed that cypress trees have been
Updated 16 May, 2012 There are cases in Georgia when government assets are privatized via a “direct sale” method: the property is sold to a specific buyer, for a symbolic sum (often just GEL 1), in return for commitments by the purchaser to carry ou
On April 10, 2012 the Georgian Parliament discussed the draft law “On Free Trade and Competition” in the third hearing. Transparency International Georgia published comments and suggestions concerning the draft earlier. Now we will focus on the subst
Last week we visited the newly build hospital in Chiatura, one of the many hospitals in Georgia built under the new hospital plan. President Mikheil Saakashvili opened this new multilevel hospital that provides all basic hospital services in Dec
Ahead of the Parliamentary elections in fall, developments in the Georgian media landscape largely reflect the polarized and tense political environment. Revaz Sakevarishvili, a prominent Georgian journalist, resigned from his post of editor-in-chie
A new set legal ammendments exempts investors from any legal responsibiilty for negative impacts on the environment, such as pollution and contamination, that their project has caused. On 20 March 2012 the Parliament of Georgia adopted amendments to
The amount of large-scale, one-time budgetary programs implemented by the government usually increases with the forthcoming of elections. Most recently such kind of a novelty appeared in a form of so called “Summer Job”, a new student summer employme
The origins are unknown for the 38% (2 278 442 GEL) of the United National Movement’s total income and for the 6% (53 289 GEL) of the Christian-Democratic Movement’s income. Such kind of conclusion stems from analysis of the financial declarations su