Givi Targamadze is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 politician (United National Movement). Targamadze is the chairman of Defense and Security Committee of Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia

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 and one of the leaders of United National Movement.

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili

Levan Ramishvili

Levan Ramishvili is a key figure in Georgia's democracy movement, which successfully forced authoritarian Eduard Shevardnadze to resign through strategic nonviolent action...

, Giga Bokeria

Giga Bokeria

Giorgi Bokeria is a Georgian politician and the current Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia.During 1989–1995 Bokeria was one of the leaders of student movement, in particular active member of Press Club of Tbilisi State University...

 and David Zurabishvili

David Zurabishvili

David Zurabishvili is a Georgian politician and the leading member of the Republican Party of Georgia. He has been a member of parliament since 2004 and is Chairman of opposition faction Democratic Front in Parliament of Georgia....

, Targamadze co-founded Liberty Institute

Liberty Institute

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, a non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking a job of coordinating journalistic investigation programs.

Givi Targamadze, conducted a number of investigations, that were subsequently published in newspapers, which significantly contributed to the dismissal of the Minister of Communications

Minister of Communications

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, the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Energy, from their positions in 1998-2000. In the frame of Anti-corruption campaign Liberty Institute a lot of time named the Corruption and legal violations in the government.

In 1998-2000 Anti-corruption activities of the Liberty Institute, led by Targamadze, enjoyed a high degree of publicity.

As a result of Targamadzes publications, several high officials were forced to resign, including Minister of Communications, two Ministers of Energy, Minister of Agriculture, Governor of Shida Kartli region, chief of Presidents regional management service and others

In 2006 Targamadze accused those who demanded the resignation of Vano Merabishvili

Vano Merabishvili

Ivane Merabishvili is a Georgian politician who has served as the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs since December 18, 2004...

 because of the involvement of interior ministry officials in the murder of Sandro Girgvliani - four of whom were convicted of the killing - as being in league with organised crime.RFE/RL report from 2006