Tbilisi. Transparency International Georgia released a blog post - "Who paid 75 000 Euros for the placement of an advertisement in The International New York Times”. "On October 16, 2014 The International New York Times published a letter from the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Davit Usupashvili ... The article consisted of statements supporting the position of the ruling coalition about the prosecution of the former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. ...we addressed the International New York Times and discovered that agenda.ge commissioned the Paris office of The International New York Times to publish the ‘article’ in the World News section. A full-page advertisement in the World News section costs approximately 75 000 Euros according to their rate card", says the blog post.

Source: transparency.ge