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“The budget deficit of the previous year was GEL 600-700 million. In just six months of this year, there is a GEL 400 million deficit in the revenue p...
On 17 September 2014, at the autumn plenary session of the Parliament, the Parliamentary Minority
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“In 2005, the Parliament issued a recommendation to the Public Defender himself. Neither the Parliament nor the Committee which I now represent has se...
On 31 July 2014, at the extra plenary session of the Parliament, the Public Defender of Georgia
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“The reserves of the National Bank of Georgia grew by USD 500 million that year and then reduced again by USD 440 million, still amounting to a USD 60 million annual growth. In addition, the reserves of the National Bank have nothing to do with the budget
On 25 July 2014 the Parliamentary Minority MPs met with the new cabinet. During the meeting, the...
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“During the office of your government, our country lost GEL 1.5 billion. This included the GEL 700 million revenues of the budget and the USD half-a-billion currency reserves which were spent on the stabilisation of lari exchange rates.”
According to the data of the State Treasury, the revenues of the 2013 annual budget were equal to GEL 7,695 million whilst the planned amount was GEL 8,426 million.
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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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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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“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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“Economic growth [for 2013] was equal to 8% in November, 8.4% in December and 6.9%, on average, in the fourth quarter with the growth trend continuing...
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili talked about the recovery of the economic growth as well as the
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“Media is absolutely free today. Check the reports of the international organisations and see which place Georgia holds in terms of media freedom. We ...
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili touched upon the issue of media freedom in Georgia at a press
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"We plan to increase the salaries of rural doctors by 30% from next month as well as the salaries of nurses. We also started building dispensaries and...
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili talked about the news in the health care sector at his meeting
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“200 million worth of property (Agricultural University) has been donated to Bendukidze for one lari.”
Lasha Gotsiridze, Rector of the Agricultural University, contacted FactCheck within our new Check
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“The prices of drugs have increased by 25%. Drugs are one of the biggest problems of the health care programme as the [Universal Health Care] state pr...
On 30 April 2014, at the plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia, Member of the Parliamentary
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"Anyone opening a dental office had no obligation to report about this activity to the Ministry of Health. That is why we do not know the number of de...
New regulations have been enacted for dental offices in Georgia since 1 May 2014. Davit Sergeenko,
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“The present special rule [extension of customs duties for a certain category of importers] contradicts the Constitution, the Tax Code of Georgia and ...
On 19 March 2014, Member of the Parliamentary Majority, Zurab Tkemaladze, presented a draft bill of
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“Malignant diseases have increased tremendously and diseases have rejuvenated. This is official information. In addition, many other illnesses are be...
On 21 February 2014, at the plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia, Member of Parliament,
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“The previous government had one-and-a-half million people living on 72 tetri a day…”
Delivering a speech at the plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia on 21 March 2014,
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