Published under
foreign policy,
free speech,
Georgia,
political risk on Monday, December 19th, 2011
It is said in Tbilisi that if many share the same dream, it has the potential to become a reality. Today, Georgia stands at the doorway of that achievable ‘dream’ in that it seems clear tangible change is on the way. Such change is brought to us by Bidzina Ivanishvili and his newfound ‘Georgian Dream [...]
Published under
corporate foreign policy,
corruption,
Georgia on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
TBILISI— Free Democrats City Council Vice-Chairman visited the sprawling new Saburtalo headquarters of the Bank of Georgia on Tuesday to send a warning to the monopoly Georgia Water and Power that they had better not raise water prices on hard-pressed Tbilisi citizens. “For more than a month I have been seeking answers about what was [...]
Free Democrats leader Irakli Alasania recently released an open letter addressed to Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri raising questions and requesting guarantees about the Georgian government’s plans for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 20-25 percent of the shares of strategically-vital companies. As a party committed to free markets as well as the protection of fundamental [...]
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Uncategorized on Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Free Democrats leader Irakli Alasania has called on Georgia’s government to loosen restrictions on broadcast media in the country and reverse the trend of controlling content on television stations with national reach. “We strongly support the recent statement of the Georgian Media Advocacy Coalition which asked the government to disclose more facts in the troubling [...]