Tbilisi. The Presidential Ordinance of December 17 has set up the "Project Promoting the Development of Civil Society and Free Media". Pursuant to the President's Ordinance, within the project framework not-for-profit (non-commercial_ legal entities will be selected through a contest. The contest commission will submit to the President of Georgia the selected not-for-profit (non-commercial) legal entity, which, in case of the President's respective decision, will receive through lawful procedures 1,000,000 (million) GEL for issuing contest-based grants to media outlets and/or other relevant organizations. The amount will be allocated from the President's Reserve Fund. The adviser of the President of Georgia, Nino Kalandadze will chair the contest commission. Members of the commission are the President's advisers Vera Kobalia, Van Baiburt, Mubaris Karaev and Natalia Kancheli. The contest commission must organize the announcement of the contest and determine the contest terms and time-line, as well as the documents required for participating in the contest.

Source: media.ge