The acting head of the Ozurgeti municipality (Guria region), Ilia Vashakmadze, has ordered his staff to sign up friends and relatives as supporters of the ruling United National Movement party, TV9 reported on May 24th (full version of audio recordin

In recent months, a new hospital has been opened by President Mikheil Saakashvili and respective Ministers of Labor, Health and Social Affairs almost every week, extensively covered by national TV. These newly built hospitals

An initiative of the ruling United National Movement party aims at revising the Constitution of Georgia, lowering the age at which one can stand for a parliamentary seat from 25 to 21 years. The public discussion period for draft amendments has concl

Tamaz Gvelukashvili, a member of Rustavi City Council from United National Movement, has sent sheep and wine to several city districts for Easter, which from the legal point of view can be considered as bribing of voters. This fact was confirmed

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