Monday, June 15, 2026

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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Young lawyers claim police used disproportionate force May 1

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Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association writes that the police used disproportionate force as it dispersed a May Day rally in Tbilisi. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association (GYLA) claims that the police used disproportionate force against participants of a peaceful demonstration on May 1.

The demonstration, organized by the youth group Laboratoria 1918 to mark the

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