The Transparency Log: An Audit of Institutional Response

For researchers, journalists, and partners, a comprehensive, real-time log with links to all original documents is maintained on this dedicated page.

A Guide to Transparency Log

On August 27, 2025, the planned field research for CAT AGI was abruptly halted when its coordinator, Miraziz Bazarov, was arbitrarily denied re-entry into Georgia . This incident became not an obstacle but the catalyst that transformed the project’s methodology. We pivoted from on-the-ground research to a resilient model of remote systemic analysis, turning an act of exclusion into a tool for public monitoring.

This log is the public record of that transformed method. We use formal information requests as a research tool to measure the responsiveness of the system itself. Each entry documents outreach to state bodies, international organizations, and civil society. The response — or the silence — is the data. This approach allows us to empirically track the procedural accessibility of institutions and to identify patterns of engagement or evasion.

Please note: This is a preliminary version of the log. As the campaign evolves and more responses are received, this page will be updated with more granular details for each entry, providing a comprehensive, real-time record of institutional engagement.

A Note for Researchers, Journalists, and Insiders
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The Four-Wave Strategy: A Campaign Overview

Our engagement is structured as a multi-wave strategic campaign, designed to test different layers of the national and international accountability architecture. The summary table below provides an overview of this strategy, from initial international notifications to the planned systemic critique of human rights protection mechanisms. The Media Outreach campaign runs in parallel to these waves.

Phase / Wave	Dates	Addressee Category	Scope	Inquiry Focus / Method	Status
Wave 0	30 Aug–4 Sep 2025	International Institutions (EU, UN, OSCE)	65+	Initial notifications to test the responsiveness of the international human rights protection system.	Completed
Wave 1	4–15 Sep 2025	Georgian Institutions & Civil Society	70+	Multi-vector engagement via formal complaints to state bodies and strategic outreach to parliament and CSOs.	Completed
Wave 2	September 2025	International Escalation (Think Tanks, Experts)	50+	Distribution of analytical briefs to create an "information surround sound" among policy experts .	In Progress
Wave 3	Post-election	Data Holders (CEC, City Hall, etc.)	TBD	Formal requests for aggregated data on electoral processes and urban governance indicators .	Planned
Wave 4	Post-election	Emergency Help & Donors	80+	A systemic critique of the international HRD protection architecture based on documented failures .	Planned
Media Outreach	September 2025	Georgian & International Media	120+	A three-tiered media pitch offering an exclusive story on the project's unique methodology and findings .	In Progress

Wave 0: International Institutions (August 30 - September 4, 2025)

This initial wave was a large-scale strategic outreach to over 65 international bodies, designed to place the case on the agenda of key EU, UN, and OSCE structures. The goal was to test the responsiveness of the international accountability architecture and create a formal, undeniable record of engagement ahead of the Tbilisi mayoral election.
The campaign successfully achieved its primary objective: the case was formally registered and taken for review by multiple key procedural and technical bodies. Specialized agencies of the UN and Council of Europe, along with the EU Delegation in Georgia, confirmed receipt and initiated internal processes . A major media freedom organization, ECPMF, began active engagement and published a dedicated alert on its international platform.

While high-level political bodies maintained a formal silence, this is an expected outcome for informational briefings that do not require an immediate procedural response. By providing them with a comprehensive analytical package, we have successfully placed the issue within their institutional memory for future policy assessments and country reports. The system is now officially on notice.

Table for Wave 0

Recipient	Date Sent	Status	Outcome / Details
Key Engagements & Positive Responses
EU Delegation to Georgia	30.08.2025	Response Received	Substantive dialogue initiated
ECPMF (Media Freedom)	31.08.2025	Active Engagement	Alert published on Mapping Media Freedom
GRECO (Council of Europe)	01.09.2025	Response Received	Case formally noted and kept on file for future review
UN Special Rapporteur (FoE)	02.09.2025	Response Received	Case officially forwarded to the Special Rapporteur for consideration
UNHCR Georgia	02.09.2025	Response Received	Substantive dialogue initiated; case documented as a systemic issue
UN Human Rights Committee	02.09.2025	Response Received	Formal complaint registered (procedural)
High-Level Institutional Outreach
Political & Security Bodies
OSCE / ODIHR	31.08.2025	No Response	Submitted for election monitoring standards review
European Parliament, DROI	30.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for review
US State Department, DRL	01.09.2025	No Response	Submitted for situational assessment
Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)	31.08.2025	No Response	Submitted for Georgia monitoring file
UN Secretary-General's Office	04.09.2025	No Response	Policy memo submitted for policy review
Leading Human Rights NGOs
Human Rights Watch	31.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for institutional review
Amnesty International	31.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for institutional review
Freedom House	31.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for institutional review
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF)	31.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for institutional review
Committee to Protect Journalists	31.08.2025	No Response	Information submitted for institutional review
Top-Tier Think Tanks & Foundations
Atlantic Council	01.09.2025	No Response	Submitted for Eurasia Center review
Carnegie Europe	01.09.2025	No Response	Submitted for Russia & Eurasia Program review
German Marshall Fund	01.09.2025	No Response	Submitted for Black Sea Trust review
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)	01.09.2025	No Response	Information submitted for review
Chatham House	01.09.2025	No Response	Submitted for Russia & Eurasia Programme review
...and 30+ Other Institutions	30.08 - 04.09	Largely No Response	Informational briefings and case studies were submitted for institutional review to other EU, UN, CoE bodies, national governments, and specialized agencies.

Wave 1: Georgian Institutions (September 4 - 15, 2025)

This multi-vector campaign targeted over 70 Georgian entities and was designed as a sophisticated stress test of the country's internal accountability mechanisms. The outreach employed a "Trojan Horse" strategy: instead of generic complaints, each communication was meticulously tailored to the recipient's specific mandate and framed in their own language of interest—be it constitutional oversight, economic stability, EU integration standards, or public health . The goal was to eliminate any pretext for ignoring the inquiries and to measure the raw institutional response.

The results revealed a stark and profound institutional divide, providing a clear diagnostic of Georgia's captured state. The campaign empirically documented three distinct patterns of behavior:

The Bureaucratic Labyrinth: State administrative bodies engaged in a formal, procedural manner, demonstrating a functioning, albeit obstructive, bureaucracy.
The Wall of Power: The political body (the ruling party's parliamentarians) met the inquiry with absolute, coordinated silence, showcasing a collapse of legislative oversight.
The Wall of Vulnerability: The civil society sector responded with near-total silence, revealing a fragile ecosystem paralyzed by fear and systemic pressure.

These divergent responses are not accidental; they are data points that map the true landscape of power and accountability in contemporary Georgia.

Sub-Wave 1.1: State & Municipal Bodies
This outreach targeted the core administrative, judicial, and law enforcement apparatus. The response pattern was consistent: while substantive answers were not provided, the majority of institutions followed formal procedure by registering complaints, assigning case numbers, or forwarding them to the relevant department. However, this procedural engagement was itself a form of absurdist obstruction.

To report a legally baseless border denial that physically prevents you from entering the country, the system paradoxically demands your physical presence or a Georgian-issued electronic signature (QES) to file a complaint online . This created a Kafkaesque situation, perfectly illustrating the system's dysfunction: to challenge an illegal administrative act, one must be outside the country, mailing physical letters back into it to prove their identity . This documented procedural mockery, turning the process of seeking justice into an exercise in futility, became a key finding of our audit.

Sub-Wave 1.1 Table:

Recipient	Date Sent	Status / Outcome
Key State Bodies
Prime Minister's Office	04.09.2025	Response Received: Formally registered (№23171) and forwarded to MIA.
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)	04.09.2025	Response Received: Case registered (№2874416), requested additional documents.
Prosecutor General’s Office	05.09.2025	Response Received: Two case numbers assigned (№01/13-89743, №01/13-89757).
Public Defender (Ombudsman)	04.09.2025	Response Received: Provided instructions and a template for formal filing.
Ministry of Justice	05.09.2025	Response Received: Provided instructions for filing via post or my.gov.ge.
Supreme Court	04.09.2025	Response Received: Acknowledged receipt of the informational notice.
Georgian Bar Association	06.09.2025	Response Received: Acknowledged receipt.
GNTA (Tourism Admin.)	06.09.2025	Response Received: Forwarded the inquiry to the Ministry of Justice.
Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo)	06.09.2025	Response Received: Declined jurisdiction, recommended appealing to courts.
Administration of the President	04.09.2025	No Response
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	04.09.2025	No Response
Constitutional Court	04.09.2025	No Response
State Security Service (SSG)	05.09.2025	No Response
Central Election Commission (CEC)	05.09.2025	No Response
Municipal & Economic Bodies
Tbilisi City Hall & Departments	05-06.09.2025	No Response
Ministry of Economy	05.09.2025	No Response
GITA (Innovation Agency)	06.09.2025	No Response
Anti-Corruption Council	05.09.2025	No Response

Sub-Wave 1.2: Parliament of Georgia (Ruling Party)
This targeted campaign directed personalized inquiries to 29 members of the ruling party, including the entire leadership of the parliament and key committees. The result was a 100% non-response rate. This total, coordinated silence is not an administrative failure but a political act, providing empirical evidence of the collapse of parliamentary oversight and the prioritization of party discipline over constitutional duty. The phenomenon was so significant that it formed the basis of a dedicated analytical report in our Knowledge Base: The Wall of Silence 2: A Systemic Audit of Parliamentary Oversight in Georgia, which deconstructs this "silence of power" as a calculated strategy of a captured legislature .

Sub-Wave 1.2 Table:

Recipient	Date Sent	Status
Parliamentary Leadership
Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker	09.09.2025	No Response
George (Gia) Volski, First Vice-Speaker	09.09.2025	No Response
Nino Tsilosani, Vice-Speaker	09.09.2025	No Response
Giorgi Kakhiani, Vice-Speaker	09.09.2025	No Response
Tea Tsulukiani, Deputy Chairperson	09.09.2025	No Response
Committee Chairs & Deputies
Nikoloz Samkharadze, Foreign Relations	08.09.2025	No Response
Levan Makhashvili, EU Integration	08.09.2025	No Response
Rati Ionatamishvili, Human Rights	09.09.2025	No Response
Daviti Matikashvili, Legal Issues	09.09.2025	No Response
Zaza Lominadze, Healthcare	09.09.2025	No Response
Shota Berekashvili, Sectoral Economy	09.09.2025	No Response
Gia Benashvili, Defense & Security	09.09.2025	No Response
Faction Leaders & Key MPs
Sozar Subari, People's Power	09.09.2025	No Response
Dimitri Khundadze, People's Power	09.09.2025	No Response
Anri Okhanashvili, MP	09.09.2025	No Response
Irakli Zarkua, MP	09.09.2025	No Response
Dimitri Samkharadze, MP	10.09.2025	No Response
... and 12 other members	09-10.09.2025	No Response

Sub-Wave 1.3: Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
This wave targeted over 25 of Georgia's leading CSOs, presenting the case as a systemic threat to the entire sector. The result was a 96% non-response rate. This "Wall of Silence" is interpreted not as apathy, but as a "silence of weakness"—a rational, defensive reaction driven by a well-founded fear of state retaliation (e.g., frozen bank accounts), institutional fatigue, and the strategic avoidance of a politically "toxic" case. The phenomenon was so profound that it became the subject of its own in-depth analytical report in our Knowledge Base: The Wall of Silence: A Stress Test of Georgia’s Civil Society, which provides a data-driven refutation of the government's propaganda narrative of a powerful CSO "deep state" .

Sub-Wave 1.3 Table:

Recipient	Date Sent	Status / Outcome
Key Engagements
Rights Georgia	07.09.2025	Active Engagement & Legal Support Offered
Prof. Ghia Nodia (CIPDD)	07.09.2025	Substantive Response Received
Leading Monitoring & Rights Orgs
Georgian Young Lawyers' (GYLA)	06.09.2025	No Response
Transparency International Georgia	07.09.2025	No Response
ISFED	07.09.2025	No Response
Social Justice Center (SJC)	07.09.2025	No Response
Human Rights Center (HRC)	07.09.2025	No Response
Media Development Foundation	07.09.2025	No Response
EaP Civil Society Forum	07.09.2025	No Response
Human Rights House Tbilisi	07.09.2025	No Response
Union Sapari	08.09.2025	No Response
Media Advocacy Coalition	08.09.2025	No Response
... and 15+ other CSOs	07-08.09.2025	No Response

Wave 1 Conclusion: A Systemic Diagnosis

The "Wave 1" campaign served as a powerful diagnostic tool, revealing not one, but three distinct Georgian systems operating in parallel. The starkly different responses from the state bureaucracy, the political legislature, and the civic sector provide a clear, empirical map of the true landscape of power and accountability.

1. The State Bureaucracy: A Labyrinth of Proceduralism. The administrative apparatus (Ministries, Prosecutor's Office) responded. However, this was not engagement but procedural obstruction. By demanding physical documents with wet-signatures sent via international mail, or the use of Georgian-specific e-signatures (QES) unavailable to non-residents, the system created a Kafkaesque labyrinth . It demonstrated a bureaucracy that functions on paper but is designed to exhaust, not resolve, external inquiries, perfectly illustrating the "mockery" of a state demanding physical presence from a person it has just barred from entry.

2. The Legislature: A Wall of Power.
The 100% non-response rate from the ruling party's parliamentarians was a political act. It demonstrated the complete atrophy of constitutional oversight and the total subordination of the legislative branch to party discipline. This was not institutional failure but the efficient functioning of a captured state, a finding so significant it is detailed in our dedicated report, The Wall of Silence 2: A Systemic Audit of Parliamentary Oversight.

3. Civil Society: A Wall of Vulnerability.
The 96% silence from the CSO sector revealed a fragile ecosystem under immense pressure . This was not a rejection of solidarity but a rational, defensive reaction driven by fear of state retaliation (e.g., frozen bank accounts), institutional fatigue, and the strategic avoidance of a geopolitically "toxic" case . This finding, detailed in our report The Wall of Silence: A Stress Test of Georgia’s Civil Society, refutes the state's propaganda of a powerful CSO "deep state" and shows a sector in survival mode.

Ultimately, Wave 1 was a methodological success. It empirically proved that traditional channels of accountability in Georgia are systemically blocked or broken. The data gathered provides an unvarnished diagnostic of the country's institutional health and validates the core mission of the CAT AGI project: to use the "Transparency Log" not to demand answers, but to measure the silence .