Friday, December 5, 2025

Lawmakers discussed how to destroy 'dirty archive'

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Deputy Chief Prosecutor Shota Rekhviashvili said the Prosecutor’s Office in 2012 asked the court 1 063 times for permission to conduct phone surveillance and as far as he remembers, in all cases the request was granted. (Ministry of Justice.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to partially destroy illegally recorded secret surveillance material in one week.

Deputy Interior Minister Levan Izoria said on Monday that this process will be conducted with the participation of society.

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Religious Radicals – the Biggest Threat to Georgia's Democracy

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Tornike Sharashenidze is professor and head of MA Program of International Affairs at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

These shameful events posed new questions (or rather question marks) for the Georgian democracy. The country has achieved a lot since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has effectively fought crime and corruption; it has managed to change its government through peaceful

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Being homeless

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Nona Kurdovanidze Project Coordinator at the Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association.

There are no accurate statistics about the number of homeless families living in Georgia.

The homeless people have been particularly active in reminding the state of their existence following the October 2012 elections, when they occupied a number of buildings in Tbilisi, staged

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Amnesty International says Georgian police failed on May 17

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Police in Georgia failed to protect gay rights activists, according to Amnesty International. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Amnesty International says the police in Georgia failed to protect demonstrators from aggression on May 17.

The human rights group which has more than 3 million supporters worldwide believes that the police failed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual,

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Georgian Church mobilized thousands against LGBT event

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The Georgian Orthodox Church mobilized thousands of people in Tbilisi to prevent activists for the rights of sexual minorities to peacefully mark the International Day Against Homophobia. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Thousands of parishioners and clerics from the Georgian Orthodox Church May 17 prevented LGBT rights activists from carrying through a peaceful rally against homophobia in downtown Tbilisi.

According to the health minister, the day ended with 28

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Understanding Georgia’s Foreign Direct Investment Trends

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Irina Guruli is Program Manager at the Economic Policy Research Center.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows to Georgia fell significantly from the second quarter of 2012, closing the year 23% down from 2011. After several years of steady recovery, this is a serious concern for policy makers. Georgia’s domestic capital market is

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TI: Georgian state stole over 111 million USD under Saakashvili

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Dark shiny SUVs were among the valuable items “given” to the state by individuals and businesses under President Saakashvili’s governments. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Transparency International suspects that gifts worth more than USD 111 million that were received by the Georgian government during the last 8 years may actually have been robbery conducted by the state.

This is the conclusion Transparency

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