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Live interviews of 27 candidates for Public Broadcaster board

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Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The 27 candidates for the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) will be interviewed live on GPB’s Channel 2 Wednesday and Thursday.

After going through a round of interviews, a shortlist of 15 candidates will be sent to parliament,

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Parliament again fails to fill Public Broadcaster board

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Georgian Public Broadcaster is still without a functioning supervisory board. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia has again failed to approve new board members for the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). Groups claim this shows there is a lack of will to free the broadcaster from political influence.

January 23, parliament approved only one

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Two talk show hosts dismissed from the Public Broadcaster

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Eka Kvesitadze and Davit Paichadze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Public Broadcaster has dismissed Channel 1 talk show hosts Eka Kvesitadze and Davit Paichadze.

The two journalists claimed at a press conference on Wednesday that their dismissal, which they learned about the day before, was politically

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Saakashvili again exercises his veto powers

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President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has vetoed the amendment of three more laws in a package passed by parliament. This time it was about the law on broadcasting, the election code and the law about the public defender.

The president’s spokesperson

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Georgian Public Broadcaster gets new director

Giorgi Baratashvili has been appointed as new director of Georgian Public Broadcaster for the next six years. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The supervisory board of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster Wednesday elected a new director as replacement for Giorgi Chanturia, who unexpectedly resigned almost two weeks ago.

The board chose Giorgi Baratashvili, who has a background from different

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Georgian Public Broadcaster director leaves

Gia Chanturia Friday resigned as director of Georgian Public Broadcaster. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — General Director of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) Gia Chanturia has resigned. He handed in his resignation letter to the GPB’s supervisory board, which approved it today at a special session.

Late Thursday night, there were unconfirmed

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