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2012-02-28
Georgia’s Transformation
In my recent post about The World Bank’s new report on corruption reform in Georgia I challenged some of the bank’s rosy conclusions, starting with the notion that “public services are corruption free” today thanks to Mikheil Saakashvili’s Wyatt Earp-style war on public misconduct since winning the presidency in a landslide after the 2003 Rose Revolution. I also faulted the report, which relies heavily on interviews with government officials, for not paying sufficient attention to the citizenry. How do Georgians see the government’s anti-corruption efforts? I asked.
2012-02-10
Tbilisi’s corruption busters
ARE corrupt officials disproportionately fat? George Orwell thought so: the pigs that ran Animal Farm were “porkers” who gorged themselves on milk and apples. Perhaps the World Bank agrees. In a report released last week, “Fighting Corruption in Public Services: Chronicling Georgia’s Reforms”, the authors note that the country’s notoriously bent traffic police of early 2000s were “mostly corpulent”.
2012-02-07
Mr. Saakashvili’s choice
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT Mikheil Saakashvili indignantly protests there is no comparison to be drawn between him and his nemesis, Russian Prime Minister Vladi¬mir Putin.
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Very low turnout during the second tour of the 2020 Parliamentary Elections
Human Rights Center observed the Court Proceedings over some Activists of Shame Movement
Human Rights Center is monitoring the trial of protesters detained during the rallies in Tbilisi
Elections without Guns!
PEC members and chairperson allegedly drank alcohol in the polling station
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They wait for me in Abkhazia
Last time, I visited Abkhazia five years ago. Since then, not a day goes by without thinking about it, without missing the AbkhazianDetailed...
Another proposal on agreement
Women – victims of violence
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Forgotten by government veterans
Every year, fewer and fewer veterans of the World War II meet the Victory Day. The society receives information about them only onDetailed...
Villages of the Hopeless
What happened to Dream of Justice Revival?
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