Nino Burdzhanadze sues three mass media

On July 23, Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament of Georgia, filed a claim to the Tbilisi City Court against the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, the newspaper Prime Time and the Internet edition "Droni.ge" for dissemination, as she asserts, of false information.

A number of Georgian media published a news item that the leader of the oppositional Party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia" bought an expensive summer residence in the elite settlement Tskhneti (a suburb of Tbilisi).

"I wouldn't react to this dirty information, but when it takes a broad-scale character, it's impossible to bear insults," said Ms Burdzhanadze.

She said that she just lives in the dacha, but never bought it, as reported by certain media, the "News-Georgia" writes.

"We demand from mass media to publish a refutation of this false information, but we don't demand any material compensation in the form of a fine, but we demand from the prosecutor's office to react to this fact of dissemination of false data, as this is 'a customized campaign' initiated by the authorities against the party and its leader," Temur Murguliya, a member of the ex-speaker's party, told journalists.