2012-07-13
On June 10, 2012, office of the coalition Georgian Dream was robbed. According to its employees, various documents and two working computers were taken. According to the head of office, Tamaz Shioshvili, the office was robbed at 6:00 am....
2012-07-13
According to Elguja Oboladze, on June 8, 2012, when he was getting ready to transport a reporter of TV-9, he was approached by Kakha Vakhtangidze and harassed by him both verbally and physically. Oboladze says that Vakhtangadze was encouraging anti-Georgian Dream sentiments among the population but he did not retaliate in response....
2012-07-13
According to the registrar of the coalition Georgian Dream’s door-to-door voter-checking in the IDP settlement of Verkhvebi, Mtvarisa Naraidze, she was followed by a white Niva with license plates GTR-565 during voter list checking. As a result, none of the respondents were willing to talk to her....
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2012-07-13
According to one of the coalition Georgian Dream’s registrars, Mzia Mamulashvili, after she had verified three cottages on June 26, 2012, she was approached by the foremen of IDP settlement in Skra, Kakha Kakhniashvili, and told to leave the settlement as the door-to-door checking had already been done there. He said that if they refused to leave, they would face problems. The registrars found 6 women outside who told them to leave the settlement....
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2012-07-13
During the door-to-door checking of voters’ list, a campaign initiated by the coalition Georgian Dream, members of the coalition verifying the list in IDP settlements in Karaleti faced problems. According to one of the registrars, Khatuna Khatashvili, after leaving one of the households, registrars that had verified eight families, found 7-8 women and one man outside, who advised them to leave as they would not allow them to continue their work....
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2012-07-13
Representatives of the coalition Georgian Dream were meeting voters in the village of Nakhakhulevi, Khoni District on June 6, 2012. The meeting was attended by Gia Tsagareishvili and local activists of the Coalition. After the meeting with voters was finished and leaders left, local citizens reported that an employee of the Military commissariat of Khoni with a surname Edzgveradze arrived and informed the village governor about the meeting over the phone. Soon Governor Davit Jokha...
2012-06-30
Tengiz Gogoladze the employee of Gori Municipality was following Georgian Dream’s door-to-door voter-checking Irakli Machitidze in every family, asked him to give the lists in order to check if everything was correct. Then he tried to take the list away and demanded him to give rest of the papers in order to copy them and said that he would not say to anyone. Then he suggested Irakli not to get in trouble....
2012-06-15
On May 30, 2012, a woman visited a family residing at 17th micro-district N12, apt. 70 in Rustavi. She introduced herself as a representative of the United National Movement and demanded them to reveal which party they were going to vote for. She told the family that “your daughter, Shorena Mchedlidze, works in public service at GeoStat, which is why you have to tell us who she will vote for.”...
2012-06-15
Mevlud Shushanashvili of Tianeti Municipality alleges that his social welfare was terminated for political reasons. On May 15, 2012, he attended a meeting held by the coalition Georgian Dream. According to the social worker, Mevlud Sushanashvili’s social welfare has been terminated temporarily until his scores are calculated....
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2012-06-15
Irma Petriashvili, a mother of three children, lives in a rented one-bedroom apartment at 88 Cholokashvili St. in Akhmeta. She alleges that the social welfare department of Akhmeta Municipality terminated her welfare after she engaged in activities of the coalition Georgian Dream....
2012-06-15
On May 16, 2012, ISFED’s LTO met with three teachers dismissed from public school N3 in Samtredia. The meeting was attended by a member of the coalition Georgian Dream, Ketevan Ivanishvili, who expressed aggression towards ISFED’s LTO. She thought that ISFED was against the establishment of the Komagi Foundation and therefore, she referred to the LTO as someone sent by the UNM or the Security Service....
2012-06-15
On May 3, 2012, a photo reporter of a local People’s Newspaper in Gori and a supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream, Revaz Nadiradze, visited IDP community in Karaleti for reporting on local problem when Levan Maisuradze, representative/foreman of Kurta Municipality, verbally abused him together with other individuals and did not allow him to capture footage he needed for the report....
2012-07-18
On March 27, 2012 Revaz Sakevarishvili resigned from the position of a Forbes Georgia editor in chief. In its March edition U.S. Forbes dedicated a prominent article to an oligarch and the leader of the Georgian opposition, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is 153th in a list of billionaires, drafted by the magazine. According to the former editor, Gagik Yeghiazaryan-the founder of Media Partners which is as company entitled to publish Forbes, demanded him to replace the article with the q...
2012-07-13
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