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TORN FABRIC: GEORGIA SEEKS TO REPAIR A DOZEN YEARS OF SOCIAL DECAY
by Suren Deheryan and Lusine Khachatryan
Nick Gvishiani, an independent budget and finance analyst, considers that the anti-corruption struggle of the new Georgian authorities will allow the government to meet its budget obligations in 2004 for the first time in a dozen years. "From the former government down, robbery was everywhere and tax-payers were concealing their incomes with impunity. Today, a sense of fear is developing among tax-payers—they're paying 100 percent taxes."