The restaurant business, more than any other, has its ups and downs. One day can see the place packed with paying punters and another brings empty tables and idle staff that still need paying. Over the financial year, though, one would hope that one

The U.S. State Department has released its latest 2009 Human Rights Report on Georgia in which Transparency International Georgia is mentioned several times. The report largely refers to Transparency International Georgia's report on media ownership

Since the New Year, TI Georgia has heard a number of reports from civil society and media organizations claiming that IDPs in the new cottage settlements were unfairly required to pay large electricity and gas bills in January, and that many had lost

Several Georgian media outlets have turned the fact that a Spanish journalist had his bag stolen in a Sokhumi coffee shop into an anti-Russian/anti-Abkhaz propaganda exercise. Imedi TV, the Georgian Public Broadcaster and other TV channels reported t

In late January, the Georgian Government hired the American lobbying firm Gephardt Group Government Affairs, founded by the former Democratic House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, to promote Georgia's interests. The one-year con