Daily Archives: April 18, 2013

TI criticizes absence of GNCC chairman

By | April 18th, 2013|Categories: NGO news|Tags: |

The office of Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) in Tbilisi. (DFWatch photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Transparency International Georgia (TIG) says the head of the commission that oversees and regulates the telecommunication and broadcasting sectors is not tending to his duties. TIG now calls on parliament to investigate if Irakli Chikovani […]

Another store of unused emergency supplies found in Georgia

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The emergency aid found in Gori last month. (Ministry of Refugees.) TBILISI, DFWatch–For the third time the Refugee Ministry has discovered a warehouse where there has been kept products and household items meant to be distributed to the refugees from the Russia-Georgia war in 2008, but instead has been locked away all this time. […]

Saakashvili and Ivanishvili exchanging corruption accusations

By | April 18th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

President Mikheil Saakashvili (right) during a visit by Russian journalist Ksenia Sokolova (left) in October, 2010. The president’s protection service, the SSPS, covered her stay with USD 6 000 and in addition paid for a USD 1 800 necklace for her. TBILISI, DFWatch–Two days before a planned rally by President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement, the ruling Georgian Dream coalition accuses it of embezzlement of state money. But the UNM claims the government is presenting […]

Saakashvili’s allies take leave from parliament

By | April 18th, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party have taken the last two days off from work in parliament in order to prepare for a big rally on April 19. One of the party’s leaders, Davit Bakradze, on Wednesday explained that for two […]

NDI’s Luis Navarro about the latest survey

By | April 18th, 2013|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Luis Navarro, the National Democratic Institute’s Country Director for Georgia. (DFWatch photo.) DFWatch: What was the methodology of your latest survey? Were there any changes compared to the previous surveys that you’ve done in the past year? Luis Navarro: The methodology that we use is consistent. We use random route sampling; we use a Kish table […]