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Georgian PM visits site of new air, sea and land transit hub

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia on Wednesday confirmed plans for a new airport in conjunction with a port in Anaklia, a small settlement on the Black Sea coast, on the border with Abkhazia.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, who visited Anaklia with Infrastructure

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"Facebook City" to be written into Georgia's constitution

Saakashvili's new Utopian commercial center on the Black Sea is just an idea for the time being, as it has no official budget yet, but at least it has its own Facebook page. (Official photo from Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A hypothetical city of half a million which still only exists as a Facebook page will be written into the constitution of Georgia.

The initiative comes from president Mikheil Saakashvili, who in a televised speech December 4, 2011 said the new city

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Lazika: Democratic Deficit in Public Decision Making Process

Tamar Iakobidze is an analyst intern at the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information.

On December 4, 2011, the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili announced an initiative to build a new city called “Lazika” in the West of Georgia, between Anaklia and Kulevi. The new city is supposed to be the largest after the capital, Tbilisi, and reach a population of about

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