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6 days ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberGeorgian Dream has passed legislative amendments that toughen penalties for drug-related offenses. With the changes adopted on Wednesday, the state policy has become harsher not only towards drug dealers but also users.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberAccording to the Georgian TV channel Formula, citing an anonymous source, Vakhtang Gomelauri is expected to resign as Interior Minister and will be replaced by the leader of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberGeorgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has stated that ‘we all know very well that not only could this war [the 2008 August War] have been avoided, but that this war was started by [former president Mikheil] Saakashvili’s regime’.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberOn Friday, the World Press Photo foundation announced that Russian photographer Mikhail Tereschenko, who works for the state-run media outlet TASS and had won an award for his coverage of the protests in Georgia, was no longer invited to the awards ceremony.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberOn Wednesday, the 132nd day of anti-government protests, several marches took place in the centre of Tbilisi.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Mikheil Gvadzabia |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberEight OSCE partners have presented the 2025 Democracy Defender Award to the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) for its ‘efforts to protect democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and due process for Georgians since 1994’.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberThe ruling Georgian Dream party has begun to consider an amendment to the Law on Grants, which would include a new article regulating the procedure for issuing grants by foreign donors.
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2 weeks ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberSaba Sordia, a journalist for the online magazine Indigo, who was arrested on charges of disobeying police orders, has been released from administrative detention. The prosecution, however, is still seeking to issue an administrative fine against him.
