"Hayk's Arrow" Armenian Strategic CenterA sourced record of legislation, elections, institutions, civic space, media and international assessments.
This is a curated register, not an exhaustive count. Each event has one primary category and is counted once within this monitor. Repeated reports and translations do not create extra events. Shared developments may appear in related monitors and must not be added together as unique events. Counts measure recorded developments, not policy success or democratic quality. Gaps do not establish inactivity.
Official statements establish what the issuing body recorded or announced. They do not by themselves prove that every commitment was fulfilled. Event dates drive charts; later publication dates are retained separately. The register is selective and will need further additions.
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The Constitutional Court admitted claim 1979 for examination on its merits by the plenary.
The claim seeks bans on five opposition parties. This procedural order neither establishes the allegations nor bans those parties.
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The Commission found disproportionate restrictions on persons associated with banned parties and risks to political pluralism.
The opinion, adopted during 9–10 October, questioned vague association criteria and the absence of individualized assessment. It did not decide any party’s legal status.
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The package schedules abolition of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and Personal Data Protection Service for 2 March 2026.
The adopted package assigns their functions and powers to the State Audit Office from that date.
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Parliament adopted a package extending consequences of Constitutional Court party bans to associated individuals.
The official account lists restrictions on party activity and public office and criminal liability for non-compliance; it does not establish that any particular party was banned.
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The amended prosecution law sets this date for liquidation and transfer of cases and resources.
Article 84¹ makes the Prosecutor General responsible for allocating pending and completed criminal cases.
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Parliament adopted an expedited package changing judicial governance and access to court acts.
Parliament framed the package as protecting judicial independence; some office terms lengthen and disclosure awaits final judgments entering legal force.
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OFAC designated Bidzina Ivanishvili under Executive Order 14024 and issued a related general licence.
This records a US administrative measure against a party leader, not a Georgian judicial finding.
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Parliament adopted expedited changes to recruitment, staff appraisal and institutional reorganisation.
The Public Defender warned that contract-based senior appointments and reorganisation dismissals reduced employment safeguards.
Justice
A Chamber found no fair-trial or punishment-without-law violations in two criminal cases.
It rejected political-purpose complaints as inadmissible; the ruling does not decide every later prosecution or detention-condition claim.
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Parliament did not remove President Salome Zourabichvili: 86 voted for removal and one against.
The majority argued that foreign visits without government consent breached constitutional requirements; the president disputed the process.
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Parliament adopted changes to judicial vacancies, probationary assessment and public access to court decisions.
Parliament presented the package as implementation of the EU’s twelve recommendations.
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Levan Ioseliani was elected Public Defender with 96 votes in favour and none against.
PACE rapporteurs welcomed the appointment while noting the contested selection process and some opposition parties’ boycott.
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Amendments created a bureau for anti-corruption policy and coordination.
The law provides parliamentary accountability and prime-ministerial appointment of its head; statutory independence does not itself establish practical independence.
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Parliament adopted expedited changes affecting judicial transfers and disciplinary proceedings.
The Venice Commission subsequently found broad involuntary-transfer powers excessive and insufficiently justified.
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Parliament adopted amendments replacing the inspector’s office with two separate services.
The new framework separates the Special Investigation Service from the Personal Data Protection Service.
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PACE rapporteurs recorded Georgian Dream’s announcement that it was leaving the EU-mediated agreement.
The party argued that the agreement was exhausted and lacked support from major opposition parties.
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Georgian Dream and several opposition representatives signed an EU-mediated agreement to address the political stalemate.
It envisaged electoral and judicial reforms and parliamentary participation. Signing did not establish that every commitment was implemented.
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Parliament appointed fourteen nominees during an opposition boycott.
ODIHR later acknowledged open hearings but found insufficient safeguards for objective, consistent, merit-based selection.
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Parliament adopted the State Inspector Service law.
Georgia’s official account describes personal-data protection and investigation of alleged torture or ill-treatment by law enforcement as its mandates.
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The ECtHR found that initially justified detention later served an improper information-gathering purpose.
It found an Article 18 violation with Article 5; predominantly excluding him from politics was not established.
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Parliament overrode the presidential veto and adopted the revised constitutional framework.
The Venice Commission welcomed the parliamentary-system transition while regretting the lack of broad political agreement.
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Parliament adopted an eight-law package providing electronic allocation from 2018.
PACE describes its purpose as reducing court chairs’ influence over case assignment.
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Parliament accepted presidential revisions; the amended rules entered into force on 4 June.
The Venice Commission welcomed judicial choice of the court chair but identified remaining operational risks.
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Parliament adopted a framework for a stable, professional public service.
The original law requires transparent merit-based recruitment and political neutrality; these are legal standards, not measured outcomes.
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