Saturday, July 4, 2026

Georgia begins pilot project for e-government

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili emphasized the importance of strengthening local governments and proposed building more public service centers. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is starting a pilot project to introduce electronic government, or e-government.

Representatives of the Justice Ministry on Monday presented an action plan for 2014-2018 named ‘digital Georgia’ which has 11 priority areas.

The goal is

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Georgia may revise taxation on some imported goods

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Gogi Topadze, one of the parliamentarians who authored the bill. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia may change the rules for VAT taxation and abolish advantages for importers of certain categories of goods.

Parliament has started reviewing the draft, but the National Movement criticizes it and says they believe members of the ruling

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Negotiations in Kazreti, the Georgian village on strike

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The strike began February 14 and is to demand better work conditions and rehiring workers who were fired. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Negotiations have started in a Georgian village where the population has been on strike to protest the treatment of workers in the gold mines.

A mediator appointed by the Ministry of Health held a first round of negotiations in Kazreti in the southern

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Obama to meet Georgian PM at Hague summit

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President Obama and Gharibashvili when they met last month at the White House. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Barack Obama writes in a letter that he hopes to meet Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili at the third Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague 23-25 March.

The US president’s letter to Gharibashvili, published on Monday,

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Georgian opposition parties call ruling coalition undemocratic

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Nino Burjanadze, leader of Democratic Movement, is one of the signatories of the statement. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Political parties not represented in parliament accuse the government of making one-sided decisions in relation to the Election Code.

The opposition parties accuse the governing Georgian Dream coalition of anti-democratic actions when it last week

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Riot interrupts football match in Georgia

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Fans of Kutaisi’s football club FC Torpedo ran onto the field and attacked the visiting players. (Photo published by Dinamo Tbilisi.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A match of Georgia’s National Football Championship in Kutaisi between old rivals, local FC Torpedo and Dinamo Tbilisi, was interrupted by the riot of Torpedo fans who flooded the field and attacked Dinamo players and their fans.

The score was 2-0 in

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Police beat villagers for Norwegian hydro power in Georgia

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Seven hundred villagers clashed with two hundred police in Ghurta. (Video still from Adjara TV’s report.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday broke up a protest in a village where a Norwegian company wants to build a hydro power plant.

About two hundred policemen were mobilized to break through a road block put up by villagers in Ghurta, in the south western Adjara

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Budget gridlock finally solved in Tbilisi

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Irakli Shikhiashvili, head of Tbilisi City Council. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Council decided to write the 2014 budget themselves, after refusing twice to pass drafts proposed by City Hall.

The capital’s executive government is staffed by people from Saakashvili’s National Movement, but the city council is dominated

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