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Zurab Melikishvili:“The Tbilisi Railway Bypass project has virtually been suspended and brought to a standstill while a massive portion of the actual construction work, roughly 80%, had already been concluded.”
15/11/2013Half TrueThe statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context -
Giorgi Kandelaki:“All these reports (NDI, OSCE), as well as the President of the European Commission, Barroso, point out that the problem was not the elections day in itself but the period preceding it…And,naturally,the problem is the pre-trial detention of political fig
14/11/2013Mostly TrueThe application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition -
Mikheil Machavariani:“We inherited an economy which imposed 23 sorts of taxes and the heaviest tax burden while the economy we left behind has only five types of taxes. You can see for yourselves what sorts of countries Georgia has come close to in terms of low tax rates.”
13/11/2013Mostly TrueThe application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition -
Shalva Shavgulidze:
“The European Charter on the Statute of Judges provides for a probationary period before a permanent judicial appointment is made.”
14/11/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Zurab Kharatishvili:
“We’ve heard of a number of problems in the village of Nakhiduri, Bolnisi Region. The biggest discontent is over the governmental projects about distributing agricultural cards. As it turned out, more than 600 households have not received any cards.”
20/10/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Zurab Kharatishvili:
“Me and my team offer voters a production-oriented economic policy which entails that the major state resources will be allocated to the development of production and the reduction of the foreign trade deficit which totalled 15 billion dollars over the la
22/10/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Nino Burjanadze:
A single suicide act committed by a Spanish woman as she was about to be evicted triggered emergency discussions among banks and led to the relevant decision of the Banking Association. All banks agreed to suspend eviction proceedings for two years and ex
20/10/2013Mostly TrueThe application is accurate, but requires additional information and/or definition -
Sergo Ratiani:“Your decision to change the status of universities to the legal entity of public law created problems for them with regard to the purchase of books and those problems are not limited to books but also concern laboratories and reagents.”
09/11/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Giorgi Margvelashvili:
“I have taken care of salary ranges in universities. Administration salaries cannot exceed those of professors.”
13/11/2013Half TrueThe statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context -
Zurab Japaridze:“Claiming that the economy was growing due to fines and the sums brought in by privatisation is simply absurd. The share of sums allocated to the budget through privatisation amounted to 3% of the budget. The total amount of fines, including patrol fines,
07/11/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Zurab Kharatishvili:
“Rustavi is an industrial town and in the aftermath of the October [Parliamentary] elections the state of employment is only worsening.”
10/10/2013TrueThe statement is accurate and nothing is missing -
Giorgi Targamadze:
“According to the data of the UN, 13% of the Georgian population (600,000 persons) spends only two lari a day on everything, including food. This means that 13% of the Georgian population is suffering from starvation.”
25/10/2013Half TrueThe statement is partly accurate, but the details are missing or some of the issues are without context
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“Turkey is Georgia’s leading trade partn...
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“Tourism has reached a historic high.”
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