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Georgia

Workers injured due to safety violations at Panorama Tbilisi construction site

by OC Media

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Three people have been injured working on the construction of Georgia’s controversial Panorama Tbilisi project. Video footage from immediately after the accident showed that safety rules were not being followed on the site. Construction at the site, near Tbilisi’s central Freedom Square, was temporarily halted on Tuesday after the three workers fell from a 10-metre height. The Panorama Tbilisi real estate project is backed by Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, chair of t

Corruption

Georgian leaders fire back after Freedom House criticism on democracy

by OC Media

•4 min read

Leaders from the ruling Georgian Dream party have criticised American rights watchdog Freedom House, for suggesting democracy declined in the country in 2017. ‘Absurd, unobjective and amusing’ were some of the words PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Parliament chairman Irakli Kobakhidze used to describe their 2018 Nations in Transit report, which said informal governance was ‘one of the key features of GD’s rule’. The report said that ‘since 2012, key ministerial portfolios have been held by Ivan