The President and the government have agreed on three candidates for a vacant seat in the 5-member leadership of the Georgian National Communication Commission (GNCC), the telecom and broadcasting regulator. The position has been vacant since former

Background to the Ban In Spring 2013, two Members of Parliament, Gigla Agulashvili, Chair of the Agricultural Issues Committee and Zurab Tkemaladze, Chair of the Sector Economy and Economic Policy Committee drafted a ban on all non-Georgian cit

In June 2013, the Parliament passed a temporary legal ban restricting non-Georgian citizens (including Georgian entities with a foreign minority shareholders – “foreigners”) from purchasing or inheriting agricultural land until December 2014— this ba

For three months now Tbilisi’s residents have been waiting in vain for Tbilisi Council to approve the city’s most important financial document - the 2014 budget. Amidst endless discussions, political debates and accusations, impeding the

A recent article on our blog reviewed inaccuracies that we had discovered in the asset declarations of Georgian Parliament members. Specifically, we highlighted the cases where Parliament members had failed to indicate their connections with private