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Rustavi 2’s head of news, Nodar Meladze, and four prominent journalists at the station will be dismissed, the channel’s newly appointed director Paata Salia said on Tuesday. [Read more…]
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Vera Gogokhia is a civic activist and founder of You for Democracy, an NGO supporting youth activism in Georgia. She is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy where she is exploring ways to bridge the gap between young people and political parties.
As Georgia transitions to a new electoral system, it’s up to young people to seize the opportunity to make Georgia a better place. [Read more…]
Protesters throwing fireworks at police on 20–21 June. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has announced they are investigating senior opposition figures for attempting to overthrow the government through violence. [Read more…]
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Anti-government protesters have marched from Georgia’s parliament to the home of the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, demanding that Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia resign. [Read more…]
Bidzina Ivanishvili casting his ballot in the first round of 2018's president elections (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)
Georgia’s 2020 Parliamentary elections will be held with a proportional system and with no threshold to enter parliament, Georgian Dream Chair Bidzina Ivanishvili has announced. This was one of the key demands of protesters who have gathered outside parliament in their thousands for the last four days. [Read more…]
Shalva Shavgulidze and Vladimer Kakhadze held a live debate on the Georgian Public Broadcaster.
The opposition candidate in Sunday’s parliamentary by-election in Tbilisi has refused to congratulate his opponent from the ruling Georgian Dream party after losing the vote, accusing him of running a dirty campaign. [Read more…]
New National Security Council meeting on 1 May (Screenshot/Video by PM’s Office)
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has appointed Interior Minister and Vice Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia secretary of the powerful new National Security Council. Critics said the move was another consolidation of power in the hands of a trusted confidant of Georgian Dream party chair Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Shota Kincha is a staff writer at OC Media.
On the eve of the 19 May by-elections in eight municipalities and for a parliamentary seat in Tbilisi’s Mtatsminda District, the Georgian Dream party, chaired by Georgia’s informal ruler Bidzina Ivanishvili, faces a potential new rival that could potentially mobilise the party’s estranged base — the Tbilisi elite. [Read more…]
Irakli Gharibashvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili (GPB)
Former Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has returned to politics with promises to unite the ruling Georgian Dream party and put an end to the government’s ‘soft’ approach to the ‘destructive opposition’. [Read more…]
A still-forming group in parliament led by former Georgian Dream member Eka Beselia could upset the political landscape in Georgia. With 2020 parliamentary elections on the horizon, this new group poses a potential threat to both billionaire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling party as well as the main opposition. [Read more…]
