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  • Transparency International Georgia17 Field-check: are the newly opened hospitals operational?Gerard de Boer16 May 2012 In recent months, a new hospital has been opened by President Mikheil Saakashvili and respective Ministers of Labor, Health and Social Affairs almost every week, extensively covered by national TV. These newly built hospitals are the result of the 160-170 hospitals program, that has focused on the transition of hospital o...
  • Nicholas Clayton370 Enough Espresso Machines, It’s Time for Georgia to Build a KitchenAnyone who has ever visited Georgia knows that it is a place that constantly surprises and astounds you. Its stunning natural beauty, its aggressively hospitable people and the impulsive lifestyle of the place make it unforgettable. Unfortunately, these attributes combine to make those constant surprises both positive and negative. It is a land of ...
  • James Brooke60 Move Russia’s Capital from Moscow to Siberia?Sergei Shoigu, the newly appointed governor of the Moscow Region, recently proposed that Russia move its capital to Siberia.Shoigu, a native of the Buddhist majority republic of Tuva, just north Mongolia, may have been playing to his home audience.The idea was immediately squelched, and the Moscow regional assembly dutifully approved Shoigu&rsquo...
  • Transparency International Georgia75 Sheep and 20 Liters of Wine to Rustavi VotersTamaz Gvelukashvili, a member of Rustavi City Council from United National Movement, has sent sheep and wine to several city districts for Easter, which from the legal point of view can be considered as bribing of voters. This fact was confirmed by some local residents interviewed by TI Georgia. They note that several days before Easter, the inform...
  • Transparency International Georgia106 How social is social health insurance?Social health insurance is one of the means to create more accessible health care, which is one of the main priorities of Georgia’s National Health Care Strategy 2011-2015, issued by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs. As a result of the new policy, more than 900,000 citizens living below the poverty line are receiving state fu...
  • Transparency International Georgia107 Gori TV-station accuses telecom regulator of double-standardsTrialeti TV, based in Gori, alleges that the Georgian National Communications Commission is granting special treatment to a local competitor. In recent months, Dia, another local TV station in the Shida Kartli region, has become more visible. In November 2011, Dia was sold to Guram Gogoladze, whom locals in Gori described to TI Georgia as a frien...
  • James Brooke121 Join Russia and USA by Rail Tunnels under the Bering Strait?Russia’s Urals oil has been over $100 a barrel for a year now.The country’s budgets are balanced. Debt is low. Savings are piling up. Russians are getting their pre-recession mojo back.On the consumer end, sales of foreign cars made in Russia jumped 90 percent during the first quarter of 2012 over last year.In the Kremlin, leaders are t...
  • Lika Barabadze1 150 The Cigarette Tirade“People discriminate against me, even my professors, the very liberal ones, the ones who claim that men should give birth in order to achieve gender equality, even they discriminate against me”—claimed my friend. I guess I am guilty of the same discrimination. My friend is a smoker and I can’t support her.Going out in Geor...
  • James Brooke103 Kremlin to Viktor Bout: Game Not OverAs Viktor Bout starts his 25-year jail sentence in the United States, the question on the minds of movie goers worldwide is: will the convicted Russian arms merchant take a visit from Nicolas Cage?In the 2005 Hollywood movie, Lord of War, the American actor played a Ukrainian-American arms dealer who made his fortune selling leftover Soviet weapon...
  • Transparency International Georgia108 Expensive Trees for Baratashvili StreetResidents of Tbilisi have probably noticed that cypress trees have been planted on Baratashvili Street in the last few days. The story has been discussed actively in social networks too. For example, the Safe Space NGO reported that the residents of Baratashvili Street were unhappy with the fact that, as the cypresses were being planted, the trees ...
  • James Brooke156 Kremlin TV Channel to US: No ResetOne generation ago, I reached the level in Russian language studies at Yale University where the next course looming in my face was: “Soviet Newspapers.”Faced with spending winter afternoons in a windowless basement classroom with CIA wannabes as we parsed Pravda and Izvestia, I ran away to Rio (literally).For today’s junior Kre...
  • Nicholas Clayton2 868 Forget Lazika, Georgia Needs to Go from Bold to BoringSince the 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgia has made a name for itself for being bold, “punching above its weight” and being a visionary reformer.On the heels of brilliantly effective reforms in the police, customs and public registry sectors, it has indeed attracted an admirable amount of foreign investment given the fact that just 10 yea...
  • Nicholas Clayton370 Enough Espresso Machines, It’s Time for Georgia to Build a KitchenAnyone who has ever visited Georgia knows that it is a place that constantly surprises and astounds you. Its stunning natural beauty, its aggressively hospitable people and the impulsive lifestyle of the place make it unforgettable. Unfortunately, these attributes combine to make those constant surprises both positive and negative. It is a land of ...
  • James Brooke60 Move Russia’s Capital from Moscow to Siberia?Sergei Shoigu, the newly appointed governor of the Moscow Region, recently proposed that Russia move its capital to Siberia.Shoigu, a native of the Buddhist majority republic of Tuva, just north Mongolia, may have been playing to his home audience.The idea was immediately squelched, and the Moscow regional assembly dutifully approved Shoigu&rsquo...
  • Transparency International Georgia75 Sheep and 20 Liters of Wine to Rustavi VotersTamaz Gvelukashvili, a member of Rustavi City Council from United National Movement, has sent sheep and wine to several city districts for Easter, which from the legal point of view can be considered as bribing of voters. This fact was confirmed by some local residents interviewed by TI Georgia. They note that several days before Easter, the inform...
  • Lika Barabadze1 150 The Cigarette Tirade“People discriminate against me, even my professors, the very liberal ones, the ones who claim that men should give birth in order to achieve gender equality, even they discriminate against me”—claimed my friend. I guess I am guilty of the same discrimination. My friend is a smoker and I can’t support her.Going out in Geor...
  • James Brooke156 Kremlin TV Channel to US: No ResetOne generation ago, I reached the level in Russian language studies at Yale University where the next course looming in my face was: “Soviet Newspapers.”Faced with spending winter afternoons in a windowless basement classroom with CIA wannabes as we parsed Pravda and Izvestia, I ran away to Rio (literally).For today’s junior Kre...
  • Nicholas Clayton2 868 Forget Lazika, Georgia Needs to Go from Bold to BoringSince the 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgia has made a name for itself for being bold, “punching above its weight” and being a visionary reformer.On the heels of brilliantly effective reforms in the police, customs and public registry sectors, it has indeed attracted an admirable amount of foreign investment given the fact that just 10 yea...
  • NewEurasia.net 164 Cartoons + social media = e-civil society?Editor’s note: The Turkmen-language Facebook page “JaPBaKLaR”, originally intended as a forum to share popular Turkmen cartoons, has emerged as the biggest Turkmen Facebook community. More importantly, it’s exhibiting some behaviors that seem surprisingly civic. NewEurasia’s Annasoltan reports.So, first the naysayers...
  • James Brooke144 Putin to NATO: Yankees, Please Stay in AfghanistanGod bless the American soldiers in Afghanistan.This message of good cheer came from an unexpected corner this week: Russia Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, addressing the entire Duma in Moscow.First, he set the deputies up by denouncing NATO as “a relic of the Cold War.”Applause, applause.Then, before the clapping could fade, he quic...
  • Transparency International Georgia134 New Hospital’s Appearance Does Not Tell the Whole StoryLast week we visited the newly build hospital in Chiatura, one of the many hospitals in Georgia built under the new hospital plan. President Mikheil Saakashviliopened this new multilevel hospital that provides all basic hospital services in December 2011. While the new hospital that has modern equipment made a positive impression at first sight, th...
  • James Brooke1 178 Russia Has the Wheels; Now it Needs the RoadsThis year, for the first time, Russia is expected to top Germany as Europe’s largest car market.With car purchases increasing by 20 percent in Russia this year, the Center of Automotive Management predicts that Russians will buy 3.2 million vehicles during 2012, slightly more than Germany.So how are Russia’s roads?According to the Wor...
  • James Brooke185 Putin and Romney: Back to the Cold War?Americans living in Moscow are suffering from mental whiplash.During Russia’s recent presidential election, we enjoyed the moral high ground.Our politicians, we thought smugly, would never stoop to reviving the Cold War to wake up their conservative bases.But, in a city where snow fell on April Fool’s Day, it’s dangerous to wal...
  • Transparency International Georgia201 Political Parties’ Millions of Uncertain OriginThe origins are unknown for the 38% (2 278 442 GEL) of the United National Movement’s total income and for the 6% (53 289 GEL) of the Christian-Democratic Movement’s income. Such kind of conclusion stems from analysis of the financial declarations submitted by these parties to the Chamber of Control in 2011. The aforementioned fact enda...

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