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December 09, 2025

TI-Georgia: Georgia Has Become Captured, Kleptocratic State

On International Anti-Corruption Day, December 9, Transparency International (TI) Georgia, the local leading corruption watchdog, said Georgia has become a "captured, kleptocratic state," warning that corruption is likely to deepen under the current system of the ruling Georgian Dream government

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September 25, 2025

GD Foreign Minister Botchorishvili Meets Belarusian Counterpart in New York

Georgian Dream Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili met with her Belarusian counterpart, Maxim Ryzhenkov, in New York, where she is attending the UN General Assembly, “to discuss ways to further step up cooperation between the two countries,” Belarus’ Belta agency reported first on September 25, citing the Belarusian Foreign Ministry

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September 10, 2025

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July 31, 2025

Georgia’s GDP Up by 6.3% in June 2025

Georgia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 6

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April 30, 2025

SSSG 2024 Report Takes Aim at Western “Disinformation,” “Discreditation”, Broaches Planned “Liquidation” of GD Leadership

The State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) published its annual report for 2024, according to which the elections held in several dozen countries in 2024 have "changed the global geopolitical agenda" and "significantly facilitated the implementation of national policies for those countries that are committed to the protection of traditional values and values"

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March 19, 2025

Kavelashvili Replaces Zurabishvili’s Appointee to the High Council of Justice

Georgian Dream-elected President Mikheil Kavelashvili has appointed Manuchar Kakochashvili as a non-judge member of the High Council of Justice, the body responsible for overseeing the judiciary, for a four-year term

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March 19, 2025

GYLA: Fines Imposed on Protesters – Severe Violation of Freedom of Assembly

The Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), a local human rights watchdog, said the fines imposed on protesters by authorities violate their rights to freedom of assembly and expression

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January 16, 2025

Survey: Economists Predict Sharp Slowdown in 2025 Growth Amid Political Instability

According to the latest Economic Climate survey published on January 16 by Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG) Research, Georgian economists forecast a significant slowdown in economic growth for 2025

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May 30, 2024

CoE GRECO Report: Low Level of Implementation of Anti-Corruption Recommendations

On May 30, the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published Georgia's results of the Fourth evaluation round: non-compliance procedure for its low level of implementation of GRECO's recommendations for preventing corruption in respect of MPs, judges and prosecutors

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April 26, 2024

TI-Georgia’s Claim that Government Refuses to Publish GRECO Corruption Report Denied by Authorities

The Georgian government has refused to publish the report of the fifth assessment round of the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Transparency International - Georgia said on April 26, calling on the Anti-Corruption Bureau to release the report to the public

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February 10, 2024

The Daily Beat: 9 February

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the Georgian State Security Service’s statement over the alleged transfer of explosives from Ukraine to Russia via Georgia

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January 24, 2024

Watchdog: Government Conceals Information on Decrees, Including on Transfer of State Property

On January 24, Transparency International-Georgia, a local watchdog that investigates corruption in the country, revealed that none of at least 531 draft decrees, almost a quarter of which (122 decrees) concerned the transfer of state property to specific entities, considered by the Georgian government in 2023, have been made public

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December 06, 2023

Chiatura Miners Reach Agreement with Georgian Manganese

After a five-day strike, Chaitura miners have reached an agreement with Georgian Manganese

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April 28, 2022

Kazakh Industry Minister Visits Tbilisi

Kazakh Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Kairbek Uskenbayev, visiting Tbilisi, has met with Georgian Vice Prime Minister / Minister of Economy Levan Davitashvili, the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development said today

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January 25, 2022

Georgia’s Score Declines in 2021 Corruption Perception Index

Georgia’s standing in the Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index declined by one point, as the watchdog said the ruling Georgian Dream party has "in recent years solidified its grasp on the judiciary and law enforcement bodies, effectively killing the political momentum needed to fight corruption

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October 17, 2020

Backgrounder: the “Cartographers’ Case”

What's happening: The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia opened a probe against two civil servants working at the Foreign Ministry and the Border Police, accusing them of conspiring to cede lands to Azerbaijan while being the members of the state commission on the delimitation of borders

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June 12, 2020

The Daily Dispatch – June 11

The Daily Dispatch is our editorial take on the past day’s news

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June 06, 2020

The Daily Dispatch – June 5

The Daily Dispatch is our editorial take on the past day’s news

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May 29, 2020

The Daily Dispatch – 28 May

Doctors to the rescue --- Minimum wage blues --- PM extends a helping hand to developers --- Money for the coffers YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Silver-haired Head of NCDC Amiran Gamkrelidze fired back at the Russian insistence to visit "everything" in Georgia's Lugar Center

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May 26, 2020

The Daily Dispatch 25-26 May

INDEPENDENCE DAY THEN AND NOW Exactly 100 years ago, thousands gathered on Tbilisi Stadium (most of you would recognize it as Tbilisi hippodrome) to watch the festivities led by youths of the gymnastic society "Shevardeni", listen to the band music and partake in a fair