
Georgian Dream vows to amend law to ban new and future opposition parties
Banning the political opposition was one of the ruling party’s pre-election promises for 2024.
Banning the political opposition was one of the ruling party’s pre-election promises for 2024.
Mikhail Tereshchenko took the photos as part of his work with the Russian state media agency TASS.
In recent years, watchdogs have criticised what they say are close ties between the ruling Georgian Dream party and a ‘clan’ inside the judiciary.
The media investigation is based on the legal dispute between the poultry company and the dairy-producing farm.
Critics have accused the government of using Liluashvili’s new position in order to ‘secure the regions for elections’.
Gunba’s inauguration was attended by representatives of Russia, South Ossetia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Transnistria.
Georgia’s fifth President Salome Zourabichvili warned that Georgia was at risk of becoming a grey zone where Russians could bypass Western sanctions.