Dr Kenneth Walker hero of US Georgia relations died, South Ossetian authorities kill Georgian Archil Tatunashvili lie about death keep body, PM wants Russian reset, Otsneba Tbilisi Sakrebulo tried for bribe, UN says don’t extradite Turk, Serbia visa free, Margvel in Brussels DC, Visa waver chat with Germany, PM in Baku and Yerevan, Dane FM in Tbilisi, Kobakhidze to Jordan, Kelly to head to Georgetown, Margvel says Kremlin hacked US elections, Vasiko manipulates GPB board against Kaladze faction, new judges some bad eggs, TI says make courts trustworthy, R2 says Tsulukiani next pres candidate from Otsneba, labor rights bill, Gigi to try to be Vain Khoni MP, women quote in parliament talk, Ugulava sentence and others, Georgian March goons, 14 year old killed by bad construction, Georgian language in street ads, suburban nightlife plan, trans rights protest, Borjomi gamgeoba donnybrook, Catholic books and icons torched in Vale, Russian plastic factory taken in Abkhazia, marshutkas v horses on Enguri bridge, Zambakhidze to head Radio Tavisupleba, FDI up, Ryanair says no Georgia any time soon, ISIS guys not returning, 5 women who signed 1918 constitution, the horrible mountain road plan
Tag Archives: Transparency International Georgia
TBLPOD21dec2017
More Misha drama in Kiev, maybe extradition maybe to the Netherlands, Orbeliani win, Nine MEPs call for Vano’s release, Kobakhidze in Warsaw, Head of State Security in Minks, Deal with Swiss co that will watch Ossetian Roki tunnel, Dane heads EUMM, Marvel declares year of freedom, VAT to change, budget has more revenue, more constitution changes, PM questions on Isani operation, more Otsneba factions, Public Broadcaster to become even more corrupt, Vani Khoni election scheduled for April, Kvirikasvhili looses it at Melua on TV, TI traces corrupt campaign contributions, Birja Mavia charges dropped, woman with Sapari charge collusion in domestic abuse among officials, police reform, prisoners to lower sentences by working, Pankisi volunteer killed in Syria, Enguri customs post, Abkhaz and South Ossetia budgets, Russia polling stations in South Ossetia, Geneva talks, Paul Rand against Javelin sale, Steve Russell bill, Citroen Utsnobi charge, Dusheti hydro, ambulance training, TSU one hundred, Today wins in Germany OC Media on supermarkets
TBLPOD7dec2017
Misha Kiev rooftop drama, more Chatayev sting op info, NATO meeting, Janelidze in Brussels, Swiss pres visit, MPs to Sweden, Montenegrin, TI et al blasted new plan for domestic spies, demise of Environment Ministry push back, Otsneba MPs want to follow Trump recognizing Jerusalem Israeli capital, Gotseridze confirmed on Constitutional Court and Lomjaria Public Defender, Tbilisi 16 year olds stabbed to death in school fight, death in custody investigation says no prob, S Ossetia military agreement to Duma, Gali meeting, Khajimba to Vladikavkaz, Russian military vehicles to Abkhazia, Kilmarnock walks back monument decision, clerics in US on NED tour, IMF says all well, tourism up, Kutaisi airport plans, Georgia oldest wine in Guinness, My Happy Family on Netflix, Abkhaz Labor Code, statelessness, Kars valley, Tango in Tbilisi
TBLPOD30nov2017
Isani sting info oozes out ISIS Chechens etc, Dudaev, Chatayev, Human Rights Court says Vano illegally imprisoned fine state 4K, PM in Brussels re E Partnership, Belt and Road Forum, Ukrainian Slovenian, Moldovan PM visit, Janelidze in Turkmen capital, Lomjaria will be Public Defender, Eva Gotsiridze to Const Court, weed legalization moving Const Court weighs in, PACE says more check and balances re opposition and Mukhtarli, masks on statues re air pollution, Batumi hotel fire, Karasin doesn’t like Javelins, Russia training right wing paramilitaries, Khajimba in S Ossetia, prisoner swap, Georgian mosaic in Ashdod, tobacco regs clarified, first same sex chokha wedding in NYC, culture houses, Spiney Dogfish, astronaut in Tbilisi
TBLPOD23nov2017
Isani special op 4 killed, Talks with Kremlin re WTO, Janelidze in Turkmenistan re Lapis Corridor, Kobakhidze in Belarus, new EU map, US sells Georgia Javelin missiles, new interior leadership, new Ucha talks, Otsneba brass bad mouth public defender, NGOs want to keep EU NATO ministry, CRRC says people don’t know about amendments, adds on Public Broadcaster maybe, new campaign finance draft, Gov tells judge no asylum to Turk, UNM prison guards charged, Abkhaz border report, stink bug help vanishes, Kilmarnock Sokhumi drama, sexist Mareuli mayor, Georgian tolerance made intangible, Freedom of Net rank, Silknet puts Jonas on board, OC Media talks to Abkhaz remembering the war, BBC on khachapuri
TBLPOD19oct2017
Constitutional veto overridden, elections soon, candidate confusion on environment, pressure on candidates, Otsneba raises 4 mil lari, budget talks, Geneva talks, Turkey Az and Geo defense agreement, MFA says Catalan independence bad, Margvel in Italy, Geo sends Buk to Dutch intelligence, labor inspections open now, transgender city court case on forced sterilization grounds, South Ossetia follows Russia labels Jehovas extremist, SO information center run by Russian Interior Min, Sameba memorial for Abkhaz war dead, new Abkhaz Interior Minister to deal with crime, Gali mess, special Abkhaz bitcoin, BI gets 15 percent of Geo bitcoin mined, no women mayors, Ajara mountains gas pipeline, trade numbers: Turkey, Russia, China Az top list, exporting potatoes, Poland permanent archeological office in Kutaisi, Geo films in Chicago, Strange Nights Vodka in NYC, stink bugs get to Tbilisi, Malta house cleaner, marathon back on
TBLPOD27july2017
Poroshenko yanks Mishas passport, Anti Kremlin pro diversity rally, new Patriarch Sno hotel, Prime Minister hints dividing church and state is non Georgian, President vetos Otsneba control of election commission and preventing direct mayor elections, UK human rights report, civilian patrol of ABL, PM meets Bibi, Tbilisi mayor race stuff, NDI says polarization, Georgians ship themselves to the Main, ProCredit investment, visa free numbers in and overstays are not giant, more European court judge stuff, Kutaisi airport takes off, Tbilisi airport Taxi mess, new Scenar clinic, foreign Saperavi competition, dog stuff, parks, Bassiani award, Rustavi MP check ups, MEPs say not much on membership, Tbilisi bad on green space 12 not 25 sq Ms per head, Azeri activist deportations, splash party
TBLPOD20july2017
Nationalist March then way cooler Womens March, Doofus Sandro Bregadzes Back, Gudauta beach attack Abkhazia crime worries, South Ossetia ethnic cleansing celebration, Gori borderization comments US and EU, Interfaith Conference about violence against women, Georgian heads UN tourism entity, US gives Georgia high counter terrorism marks, Bakhala newest drug plant frame job by cops, court allows gay blood donations, another market fire, Moscow Tbilisi airport dispute, Ureki Batumi train opens, new gas busses in Tbilisi, marshutka safety, EU visa liberalization views, Georgian churches in Turkey, Galleria Mall near Freedom Sq, Chemistry Bronze, Ataneli Opera sidewalk star, Marseille top prize for Koberidze film, courts criticized, Kandinsky canvas in town, Art Gene, GEM
TBLPOD13july2017
Refugee Ministry sells out persecuted Turk, OSCE powwow, open lists commentary, WTO plan finally Swiss deal, Eloshvili takes Energy Min, Interior Min BSs about Mukhtarli and Birja Mafia, 100 new soldiers to Afghanistan, Econ Min meets Turk about trade, European Investment Bank, Poti fire, rain and hail, Racha bridges, Bagrati no longer heritage site, Martivli canyon top scuba site, rugby under 20s get boost, Football Under 19s beat Sweden, anti bag law, Skyfall in Uplistsikhe, wine in Guardian, McGill journal digs up Chechelashvili, Gori ABL movement talk, Teft retirement, GEM, Mziuri Ice Cream
TBLPOD6july2017
Pence will visit, R2 says less Geo in Afghan then DefMin says BS, drama on Turkish persecution via extradition, Surkov wants Russian owning Abkhaz land, Russia moves Osset Border half a KM EUMM quiet, Karabakh heats up, Kaladze will run Aleko closer, Manganese crooks get gift from Kutaisi courts, 25 years of relations with various, Eliava fire, Rustaveli Theater and Film school judge illegally on looks, US embassy commissary theft, not serious traffic violation point system, Rustavi rail link to Samgori possibility. GeoStat says GDP growth high, Kuwait Kutaisi flights, star photos, junior wrestlers gold, The Christian Evangelical Protestant Biblical Freedom Church of Georgia, TI on Osneba’s delay of parliamentary change, Swiss study of real trade, prejudice at border against Indians
TBLPOD29june2017
Otsneba pulls a fast one with Parliament changes now in 7 years not next elections, some BS on marriage inequality, Geneva, Mukhtarli, Sebia trip, Batumi European court meeting, Abkhaz crime wave, new Russian law enforcement entity in Abkhazia and S Ossetia, US House pretends US cares about NATO under Trump, Otsneba hires new DC lobbyist Rasky, Kaladze officially runs for mayor, Margvel says elections third week of October or so, drill sergeants, Poti IDP kindergarten, new dairy labeling to end powder in cheese, Shuakhevi dam finished, Shilda gets medals in Krakow, Lelos beat US and Canada loose to Argentina, Georgian stunt bikers in Bollywood movie, new drug law draft, handicapped access, corrupt Gardabani land privatization agency, DCFTA challenges, Jeffries with Azerbaijan ambo in DC, Tarzans Testicles in Abkhazia, Georgia tier one in US trafficking report, 7.7 million books printed in Georgia in 2011
TBLPOD22june2017
Venice comments nice but specific, Kobakhidze wants Pres debate who says bring it on, Usupashvili new party, government continues to flail about Mukhtarli, Geneva, Bordeaux, Luxembourg eastern partnership chat, Senate Russia bill, Maghlaperidze ends American shows, Patriarch meets Mamaladze family and wants monarchy, R2 Udumashvili runs for mayor with Dzveli Natsebi, Justice Min violence against women program, DCTFA dot GE, Congo hostage maybe Uganda, Sokhumi bomb, Istanbul extortion arrests, Tsalenjikha rain, Asian bank roads, trade up but deficit also up, Black Sea fish ok for EU, Borjomi in cans, Baharain flights, Snatch gold, fencing, foreigner ag land ban, wine and vine bill, NUF BS says Jaba, NYT on polyphony, Tillerson plan, bacteriophage
TBLPOD18may2017
Constitution changes still anti-proportional anti-president, four miners killed in Tkibuli, EU special rep hangs with Bibilov, PM with Trump and Estonia, Luzhkov visit, US Congress singles out Nauru, Georgians with NATO exercises in Estonia, Georgian fighter killed in Donbas, Abkhaz no US visa for prayer breakfast, new SO cabinet head, Russia pays SO pensions and gov salaries, new DC lobbyist Trump guy, IDAHO day Patriarch on Dads, Red Cross graves, top auditor attacked, road workers unpaid, healthcare changes, China trade deal, ADB more cash, EBRD GDP, Fitch GOGC, Liberty Bank fines and fees, tons of new flights Aktau Tehran etc, Tsalenjikha tea, CineDoc Didube, youth gambling, Aerosmith, Tsopi, Hep C, Misha and Trump, Georgians not ok with the gays, press and court trouble, Alcatraz mental health swim, Junior Lelos
TBLPOD27april2017
Constitution Commission tries to lock in majority, Lavrov in Abkhazia, Bibilov in place, Orban protests, Iranians re corridor, Estonians in town, Sultan Erdogan, Abkhaz parliament, Georgian Abkhaz IDs, Israel fights asylum cheats, security min report, ECHR vacancy, Beruch gets award, Georgians rob Burma cash, Russian SO abduction, Order of St Nick to charity cab driver, Chiatura cable cars, exports up, passengers up, more tea, churkhchela export, Pepela Dusseldorf restaurant, Nana wins Euro Chess, Ninidze film up for top in Cannes, Vazha reading space, reserve Army plan, EU Energy Community, coffee
TBLPOD13april2017
Ossets pick Bibilov, Speaker sticks to guns on bad constitutional amendments, smoking ban, Belgian speaker in town, Janelidze in Warsaw, Margvel blasts government, Military agreement with France, Foreign Min backs Trumps bombing Syria, priest files human right suit, infrastructure plans, reserve fund for fire victims, Chiatura accident, penguins, giant bus parking lot, Misha wants a wall in Ukraine, Big Tabasco goes to court, IMF ready, more flyers, young Lelos beat Japan, This Affects You to court over gov surveillance, constitution mess, SO election, black market uranium, fake USAID Armenia letter, Orban coming
TBLPOD6april2017
Ossetian army now Russian, Armenia vote, St Petersburg attack, cyanide priest on hunger strike, Misha at Euro Peoples Party, Norway def min, ski resort meeting, Ergneti IPRM, senators on territorial integrity, join Europole, new ambo to Swiss, Riga Tbilisi Square, Center Point prison terms including ex vice speaker of parliament, former deputy interior min attacked, Russian border guards abduct near ABL, rail line to Kutaisi airport, Metechi bridge non bomb, lions and tiger at zoo, littering fines, Narmania builds parking lots, sick kids in Sighnaghi, more tourists, wine export, Barcelona flights, new Freedom Sq Accor hotel, Georgian Kiwis to Japan, anti smoking law discussion, Rayfield
TBLPOD30march2017
VISA FREE, Rustavi 2 privatization, Abkhaz runoff, Bakradze by Bay, PM in Kiev Athens Brussels, UNHRC, constitution, Russian abduction, Bagram switch, Misha hosts Kiev TV, former Ukraine Energy Min extradition, Ukrainian soldiers medical treatment, disabled kids, ICC shut down re corrupt judges, GDP numbers, ADB Batumi bypass, Crystal gets Dutch cash, textile factory Tbilisi, Amman flights, Demna award, thirteen championships, Ucha says sign anti women violence treaty, Stalin, street vendors, unsafe marshutkas, Gessen in Harpers, Margvels daughters friends framed, Kokoiti, Protestants
TBLPOD16march2017
Batumi riots, Abkhaz vote, McCain on Rustavi 2, Margvel in Baku, Klimkin Ukraine FM visit, Putin makes South Osset Army Russian, Tskhinvali protests re Kokoity, new ambos, Azoti employees suit, Israeli asylum, Georgia Iran Technology transfer office, remittances up US tops list, FDI numbers Baku tops, St Petes flights, Ryanair, wine in Japan and London, Kutaisi sewing, Lelos beat Russia, Ananiashvili gets Oracle of Art, London Book fair features Georgian translators, Margvel opens constitution process, noise regulations, TI on campaign funds, Tedo on chain reaction, Dunbar Wheeler on Jorbenadze not Avto, NPR on Khurvaleti, bikes
TBLPOD9feb2017
Visa free for Abkhaz and Osset Geo passport holders, Court about to decide wether to silence Rustavi 2 special clip, OSCE chair in town Janelidze DC trip, Tibilov furthers Alaniazation, Russian troops in S Ossetia inspected, Batumi Gulen school shut down because Erdogan said so, Maglaperidze kills Public Broadcaster, Kobakhidze on Constitutional Court, Ugulava interview, trans murderer gets 13 years, trans attack in nightclub, Imedi consolidates control of news, Azoti strike, Russian abduction, inflation 4, new hotels, labor problems at Fresco, Geo wine in France, Riga tourism, Glurjidze movie new heights, Rachvelishvili award, veto override judicial law, pedestrians, Muradashvili on Rustavi 2, Navarro on Misha
TBLPOD10nov2016
Mish leaves Odessa, draft back, Sandra out, Trump, Karasin on visas, NATO exercise, Burchaladzes party exits, PM mets Serzh chats with Biden, German Def Min says EU Army, Pankisi volunteer killed, Zugdidi arrest, three Chinese arrested, German dies in Svaneti, car inspection in a year, Batumi Iliachevsk back, H and M in Galaria, wine export up, Ajara factory, Chinese Kutaisi metal plant, Italian salon leaves, Food Panda, olives, ads down, movie school, theater awards, Kobakhidze speaker maybe, Beselia legal committee, Avar female genital mutilation, Vogue Tbilisi streets, EAAG podcast, 44 ships, Abkhaz residency, McClain party, Japan rugby, Radarami Oil and Honey, new Metro map
TBLPOD3nov2016
Otsneba sweeps runoffs, Usupashvili mulls future, R2 to Const Ct, OECD tax chat, 12 life judges, NGOs against annexation. Nats say camera attacked in Sam Jav, Molashvilis dacha, Abkhaz Russia army deal, SO ABL abduction, Sakvarelidze green paint, EU ag bid, drug pile burned, rest areas, growth up, 100 lari note, Doha flights, Zara factory in Guria, EU geographical indications, pizza, Indian movie, cabinet rumors, EAAG Georgian language EU podcast
TBLPOD27oct2016
Sandra calls fowl, Free Dems go Otsneba, Krtsanisi shooting, EU visa free update, Pakistan meeting, Rakviashvili Sec of Sec Council, Isoria on draft, Patriotebi new math, fewer ministries, Ukraine and Poland talk WWII start, South Ossets to join Russian army, EU governance reform 30 mil, 3 ABL abductions, soldier death in Kakheti, Geo Manganese lawyer arrested, Larsi closes due to snow, 112 Rustavi office, Tarek food response, Sarpi software glitch, savings down lari loans up, IMF growth numbers, Gardabani plant, TBC insurance, Textile plant in Poti, German trains to Tehran, Rakia fixes Metechi, more right hand drive car drama, tennis win, Poles study Geo wine, Chubabria on homelessness, De Waal Pushkin, Melua, sheep, VOTE
TBLPOD20oct2016
Runoffs, Mtatsminda, Zugdidi, amendments, Givis car bomb arrest, trans women beaten in Ortachala, Abkhaz death in assassination attempt, Geo joins EU Energy Community, Duma joins Russian and Abkhaz armies, movies return, French ship in Batumi, new Geo China leader, Alasania future, Rustavi crash, Sabortalo construction death, Larsi road closed, bear, Bakurtsikhi bypass, Kazakh cargo tariff free, Biltmore casino, Israeli airplane part factory planned, citrus harvest, Mitarbi back, Dartlo road rebuild, Gia Dvali wins Humboldt, Jashi wins in Chile film fest, Halloween
TBLPOD13oct2016
Big Otsneba win, 49 majoritarian run offs, National Movement in with 27 percent, Patriots squeak in, everybody else out, Alasania takes vacation, Otsneba headed for constitutional control, want to get rid of Margvel and prevent marriage equality, Kyrgyz president visits, USS Mount Whitney in Batumi, Davit Bakradze replaces Gegeshidze in DC, Georgia does not support Ukraine in Council of Europe vote, Center Point prison, Vazisubani clashes, mine worker death in Tkibuli, Tbilisi budget, Arabs sell Poti Zone to Government, Gudauri hotels, TBC share sale, bag maker starts shoes, plastic expansion, Gudauri shuki, foreign ease with Georigan bonds, wine export up, Ambrolauri strip, blue bus on 61, Turtle lake ropeway, three new Gudauri lifts, Ball visits Orbeliani, Geo American says no hijab chess game, new Melua album, Tbilisoba, Cinedoc, Asly