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Georgian regional governors overclaimed state money for fuel expenses
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Georgian regional governors overclaimed state money for fuel expenses

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All nine of Georgia’s regional governors claimed state funding for fuel far higher than they could possibly have used, a new report by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) has revealed. Each governor would have made an average of two trips around the earth with the fuel they claimed money for in 2017–2018, according to the Tbilisi-based transparency group. The governors of Samegrelo–Zemo Svaneti and Samtskhe–Javakheti regions claimed expenses for almost enough fu

Georgia granted asylum to ‘25% of applicants in last six years’
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Georgia granted asylum to ‘25% of applicants in last six years’

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In the last six years, 5,885 people registered for asylum in Georgia, only quarter of which were granted humanitarian or refugee status, data published by Institute for Development of freedom of Information (IDFI) indicates. In most cases proceedings were terminated by the applicants themselves (2,743), with 1,346 people being rejected. Data from 2012–2017 shows that the number of people requesting asylum in Georgia has been decreasing since 2014, when it reached a high of of 1,792 people.

Georgian court rules official emails are public information
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Georgian court rules official emails are public information

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Georgia’s Supreme Court has declared official email correspondence to be public information, which should be accessible to anyone. The Court made the ruling last week, almost three years after transparency group the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) first brought the issue to the Ministry of Justice. In a 10 March 2015, the IDFI requested information from the justice ministry about a tender the ministry had sent in an email. After the ministry ignored the request,

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