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NGO coalition in Georgia proposes new procedure for selecting chief prosecutor

DFWatch Editor-in-Chief Lasha Tughushi is one of the authors of the bill. Behind him, co-author Natia Kuprashvili.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s largest NGO coalition proposes an overhaul of the existing system for selecting a chief prosecutor in order to minimize the risk that one party takes the decision unilaterally.

The proposed bill comes in the wake of a two-week-long series of rallies in Tbilisi

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Freezing the Kremlin's policy

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Lasha Tughushi is founder of DFWatch, PhD and chair of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum – Georgian National Platform.

How Europe should respond to Putin at the Riga Summit

Against the backdrop of a rain of bullets, and the rumble of tanks and cannons, Europe is preparing for the Riga Summit in May. Expectations are already low, but one likely positive decision is visa liberalization

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Surveillance bill review postponed

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Secret surveillance is to be regulated better in Georgia with a new legislative package. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia Friday postponed the review of a much-debated bill proposed by civil rights groups aimed at preventing illegal surveillance, a practice still rife in the country.

The review was postponed because parliament was unable to reach a quorum.

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Georgia to keep archive obtained by illegal political surveillance

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Lasha Tughushi, one of the members of the commission, says the interior ministry has kept about 28 000 files, or 789 hours, of a surveillance archive, mostly of a political content. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Interior Ministry still stocks about 28 000 computer files with recordings that were part of a system of political surveillance obtained through illegal means.

Only a few of the files will be destroyed – those which contain material of an intimate nature.

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Georgian NGOs express concern about events in Ukraine

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“The responsibility for this whole tension is the Ukrainian government’s,” says Lasha Tughushi, head of the National Platform. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–An umbrella organization uniting more than a hundred non-governmental organizations in Georgia on Saturday issued a statement expressing concern about events in Ukraine.

The statement, which is signed by more than 60 groups that are members

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