Batumi City Hall is planning to demolish five 12-storey buildings near Shota Rustaveli Dramatic Theatre, on Sandro Akhmeteli street (Nos.1, 3, 5, 7 and 9). In an unofficial conversation with the inhabitants, the representatives from the Batumi Munici

In 2010, the Georgian Government drafted the Comprehensive Strategy in Competition Policy because competition is one of the priority areas for the commencement of the multilateral negotiations regarding the free trade agreement between Georgia and th

The Georgian government has recently carried out a de-facto re-nationalization of the lottery monopoly. In a move that received little media coverage, 70% of ownership rights on the Georgian Lottery Company were taken over by the Ministry of Economy

Over the past months there has been discussion and speculation with regards to the reorganization of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources. One of the main questions that has been raised is related to forest management in Geo

When privatizing prestigious real estate property or state-owned companies, the Georgian government has often designed specific conditions that the successful bidder had to comply with. These conditions go beyond the requirement for a one-time payme

As of today, the registration of land plots in Mestia presents a considerable challenge. Land plots have in fact never been legally registered in the high mountainous regions of Georgia, such as Svaneti. Traditionally, the local population has owned

The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development has disclosed that the company Golden Com is the winning bidder for the 4-year management rights of Alpha-Com, the state-owned entity that manages all of Georgia's broadcasting stations that transmi

This post was updated on August 1, 2011 The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development is auctioning off the management rights of LLC Alfa-Com for the next four years. Alfa-Com is a fully state owned entity with about 330 employees that operates

In a new wave of evictions, internally displaced persons (IDPs) were forced to vacate four temporary shelters in Tbilisi on July 18, following previous rounds of evictions in August 2010 and January 2011. A majority of these IDPs were old caseload f

In an earlier blog post, we raised concerns about the systematic practice of 'ghost voting' within the Georgian Parliament. Our report quickly caught the media’s attention and prompted several TV reports and news articles, in one of which an MP who w