Protest in Batumi on 17 February. (Society Batomi)
Several dozen activists protested in the Georgian Black Sea resort and port city of Batumi on Sunday against what they said were uncontrolled construction projects in the city. [Read more…]
(Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)
Georgia has taken no steps to enhance gender equality and equal treatment of minority groups since 2017, according to a report assessing the government’s progress in its 2017–2020 EU Association Agenda. [Read more…]
A TBC branch in Tbilisi (Robin Fabbro/ OC Media)
The National Bank of Georgia has ordered the shareholders of TBC Bank Group PLC, which owns their namesake Georgian bank, to remove their Chair, Mamuka Khazaradze, and Deputy Chair, Badri Japaridze, from their board within two months. The National Bank also revoked the signature authority of both.
(მარი ნიკურაძე /OC Media)
ნანა თაკვარელია სასურსათო უსაფრთხოების სპეციალისტია. ის Oxfam-ის სამხრეთ კავკასიის ოფისთან თანამშრომლობდა.
ბევრს მიაჩნია, რომ ქართული სამზარეულო არაჯანსაღია, ყველით, კარაქითა და ცხიმიანი ხორცით მომზადებული კერძები კი გულის შეტევისკენ პირდაპირი გზაა. სინამდვილეში, ქვეყანაში კვებითი პრობლემების მიზეზი ტრადიციული სამზარეულო არაა — უთანასწორობა, გრძელვადიანი პოლიტიკის არქონა და კვებითი გაუნათლებლობა საქართველოში ფარული შიმშილის საფუძვლებია. [Read more…]
Salome Zurabishvili (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)
Georgia’s President Salome Zurabishvili has found herself at odds with the ruling Georgian Dream party over their decision to deny her a permanent seat on the country’s new National Security Council (NSC). Meanwhile, a former deputy secretary of the NSC told OC Media that this was not the biggest problem with the new council, and warned of the ‘excessive powers’ it’s new head may wield. [Read more…]
Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu met his Armenian counterpart, Davit Tonoyan, in Moscow on 8 February. (Defence Ministry of Armenia)
Armenia has sent an 83-person team of deminers, medics, and an accompanying security detail to the Syrian city of Aleppo․ [Read more…]
(Social Services Agency)
Almost all of Georgia’s social workers are set to go on strike on 1 March, over what they say are poor working conditions and a lack of resources. [Read more…]
A homeless man sleeps on a bench in the centre of Yerevan. There are currently around 400 homeless people in Yerevan, with three-quarters of them living on the streets. (Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)
Yerevan’s homeless population comes from all over Armenia and beyond, but they all have ended up in the same place. There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets. [Read more…]
(Saida Vagabova / OC Media)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have prohibited a rally in support of Anastasia Shevchenko, a Russian human rights activist under house arrest who was denied the right to see her dying daughter. [Read more…]
Georgian MIA
Georgia’s Interior Ministry has named a man they suspect of uploading and disseminating a sex tape of an unnamed person in January.
