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“The 23 July 2014 United Nations Human Rights Committee Summary Report calls upon our government to investigate the myriad of potential human rights a...
On 6 August 2014, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, sent a response letter to
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“The reserves of the National Bank of Georgia grew by USD 500 million that year and then reduced again by USD 440 million, still amounting to a USD 60 million annual growth. In addition, the reserves of the National Bank have nothing to do with the budget
On 25 July 2014 the Parliamentary Minority MPs met with the new cabinet. During the meeting, the...
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“During the office of your government, our country lost GEL 1.5 billion. This included the GEL 700 million revenues of the budget and the USD half-a-billion currency reserves which were spent on the stabilisation of lari exchange rates.”
According to the data of the State Treasury, the revenues of the 2013 annual budget were equal to GEL 7,695 million whilst the planned amount was GEL 8,426 million.
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“The economic growth in our region was substantially reduced in 2013. This does not only include the South Caucasus, Commonwealth of Independence Stat...
On 23 July 2014, while delivering a speech at a session of the Parliament, Davit Onoprishvili
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“Export to the European Union increased by 57% in the first six months. This is an all-time record. Export constituted 65% last year. These are the hi...
On 26 July 2014, during his speech at an extra plenary session of the Parliament, Irakli
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“Georgia has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world and one of the lowest education levels.”
On 26 July 2014, in his statement, MP of the Parliamentary Majority, Gubaz Sanikidze, talked about
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“We gave an additional GEL 60 million to the Ministry of Defence in 2012 […]. Since Delta was separated from the Ministry of Defence and became part of the Ministry of Economy, respective funds were taken from the former […].”
On 23 July 2014, at the extra plenary session of the Parliament, MPs listened to the 2013 annual...
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“The defence budget in 2012 was GEL 735 million. In 2013 it was reduced to GEL 660 million […].”
Since the MP of the Minority criticised the government for reducing the defence budget in their very first year of office
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“This [L 410] is the most dangerous airplane in the world. It doesn’t meet any kind of safety criteria.”
On 15 July 2014, in terms of FactCheck’s new Check Your Fact service, our reader, Nino Demuria,
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“I hope you don’t really believe that the Georgian economy is on an irreversible rising tide. The numbers which were published in November, December a...
On 2 April 2014 at the Parliament’s plenary session, representative of the Minority, MP Zurab
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”I won my district (Saburtalo District, #1 Precinct). I received approximately 50% of the votes in this precinct. Mr Nika Melia completely lost his di...
Debates among Tbilisi mayoral candidates were held at the Sheraton hotel on 9 July 2014. Davit
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“The government of the capital city should have solved the street problem a long time ago. They should have announced tenders and rehabilitated the st...
Davit Narmania, Tbilisi mayoral candidate, touched upon the issue of Tbilisi’s streets in his
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“This year, 100 new, environmentally friendly buses adapted for disabled people were not provided due to the fact that City Council did not allocate t...
Nika Melia, Tbilisi mayoral candidate from the United National Movement, organised a meeting with
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"It is important that we establish order in terms of city development and elaborate a construction plan for the capital city. There has only been one ...
Davit Narmania, Tbilisi mayoral candidate from the "Georgian Dream" coalition, stated the following
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“Economic growth [for 2013] was equal to 8% in November, 8.4% in December and 6.9%, on average, in the fourth quarter with the growth trend continuing...
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili talked about the recovery of the economic growth as well as the
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"This (Baku-Tbilisi-Karsi) is the railway through which the ISAF Mission will depart from Afghanistan."
The President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, talked about the details of Tbilisi Summit 2014 on
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“The wage fund has increased by 64 percent in the approved budget of Tbilisi, from 29 million to 45 million. The City Council purchased 22 new cars.”
Debates among Tbilisi’s mayoral candidates were aired on TV3 on 29 May 2014. Dimitri Lortkipanidze,
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