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By Nino Bakradze www.ifact.ge In 2011, a company formed by the brother-in law of former Georgia Minister of Defense David Kezarashvili to operate the country’s national lottery system gave 70 percent of that company’s shares to the Ministry of Economics free of charge. Leaked documents found in the Panama Papers offer a possible explanation for … Read more
by Dave Bloss, Miranda Patrucic, Khadija Ismayilova and OCCRP Azerbaijan
06 June 2016
The First Family of Azerbaijan and a close business partner made a series of financial transactions in the days and weeks before a crippling 2015 devaluation of the national currency that eventually earned them at least 100 million manat (US$ 64 million) in just two deals while additionally protecting their banks and companies.
TBILISI, DFWatch–On December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the Public Defender as usual published a brief report about the situation in Georgia in terms of human rights.
DF Watch compiled an overview of the most important issues discussed in the report.
Widespread electoral fraud allegations and the growing gap between the political élites and the society confirm worrying trends in Armenia’s democratic development.
On Sunday, 6 December a nationwide constitutional referendum was held in Armenia.
Children jump over puddles on the pock-marked street outside the mosque in Duisi, a small village situated in Georgia’s scenic Pankisi Valley. Inhabited by 8,000 ethnic Kists, a minority group related to the Chechens of the North Caucasus, Pankisi is also home to refugees from Chechnya
South Ossetia’s declaration of holding a referendum on joining Russia seems to have more to do with local power dynamics than regional geopolitics.
The recent South Ossetian announcement of its intentions to hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation came about suddenly.
While announcing his decision,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Constitutional Court in Georgia has decided that a controversial provision barring former senior Soviet officials and Communist Party members from holding post in state institutions is unconstitutional.
The court on Tuesday announced the ruling,
A major ‘family values’ conference will be held in Tbilisi on the 17 May amidst fears that it might be yet another attempt at silencing LGBT rights activism
Georgia was chosen as the site for the tenth World Congress of Families, Christian News Wire reported.
Mestia, DFWatch – Svan language activists explain why it’s necessary to stop the decline of the language amidst reluctance on behalf of the authorities and the Church.
‘A language is a dialect with an army and navy’,
The postponement of the full implementation of the treaty on ‘Alliance and Strategic Partnership’, cabinet reshuffles, and demonstrations of opposition parties hint at Abkhazia’s increasingly knotty relation with Russia.