Imprisoned former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has issued his fifth public letter from prison, this time addressing Mamuka Mdinaradze’s resignation and accusing Mdinaradze and Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze of causing “grave and irreparable damage” to the country, its people, and the Georgian Dream party. Garibashvili also returns to the claims outlined in his first letter, …
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Scheme Long Linked by Batumelebi to Pre-Election Mobilisation Now Admitted as “Fictitious Employment” by Kobakhidze
Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze acknowledged that the social employment programme paying 300 lari per month was, in reality, fictitious employment and did not address unemployment. “The reduction in employment is entirely formal and has one specific reason: there was a programme replacing social assistance, and 30,000 people can be said to had been …