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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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“The number of people with social vulnerability status has increased significantly with each election. It increased especially during the 2012 parliam...
On 23 July 2014, at a plenary session of the Parliament, Chairman of the Healthcare and Social
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“Mr Koba [Subeliani], I would like to remind you that when you were in government the budget of the Ministry of Refugees was GEL 25 million. It is now...
On 26 July 2014, during the plenary session of the Parliament, Irakli Gharibashvili responded to a
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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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“An indispensable criterion for forming local governments is the knowledge of the official national language of Georgia.”
On 31 July 2014, Parliamentary Majority MP, Giorgi Volski, made a statement: “According to the
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According to Davit Sergeenko, the National Statistics Office of Georgia determines the price change on medications by population surveys which do not ...
On 2 July 2014, in his interview with the media, the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs
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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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“Teachers’ wages have been raised and tens of millions of lari have been allocated for the construction and repairs of school buildings.”
On 4 June 2014, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, met with representatives of
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“Mr Ivanishvili never said anything about reducing the petrol price by one lari. Please provide the source of such information. None of the members of...
On 25 July 2014, Minister of Energy of Georgia, Kakha Kaladze, talked about petrol and electricity
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“We have 16% growth in export in the first five months. The export of local, especially agricultural, products is growing.”
On 18 July 2014, at the extra plenary session of the Parliament, Minister of Economy and
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“From January to May, GEL 2.8 billion has been mobilised in the total budget which is GEL 130 million more than it was in the same period of the previ...
On 10 June 2014, in terms of the Open Governance Partnership, Minister of Finance of Georgia, Nodar
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“Revenues from income tax have been increased and, as you know, income tax directly depends on the amount of wages. Hence, since the revenues have inc...
According to the data published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat), the average
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“There were 108 murders in 2011 and 74 of them got media coverage. In 2013, 50 out of 52 murders were covered by the mass media.”
On 25 July 2014, while discussing the new cabinet in parliamentary committees, crime statistics
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“There have been no cases of human rights violations in the pre-detention centres. Foreign experts visited Georgia for a second time, studied the situ...
On 4 June 2014, Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, made a statement during his
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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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