The guide published by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on September 7, titled "Using Opportunities to Eliminate Kleptocracy" reviews the anti-corruption reforms implemented in Georgia in 2014-2022 and the current situation in the country's fight against kleptocracy. The guide is a reference resource for USAID staff working in countries with serious corruption.

This document devotes a lot of space to the review of the period after the "Rose Revolution" and positively evaluates the fact that within a few months of the revolution, the new government "reorganized the executive branch, changed the legislation, arrested corrupt officials, and confiscated their property, as a result of which by 2005 bribery had decreased by 80%. In this situation, the document says that the reforms led to less bureaucracy, changes in tax laws, and better public services, which "led to a sharp drop in bribery."

The document also states that the reform of the patrol police carried out after the "Rose Revolution" resulted in a tenfold increase in police salaries and an 80% decrease in bribery within a year. The document says that "early victories help build credibility and give some momentum," but the window of opportunity is still at risk until the people "show a willingness to return to the streets and the polls... to defend the independence of their own anti-corruption institutions."

Additionally, the USAID document emphasizes that political analysis can help understand how and why anti-reformist elements are regaining power in Georgia. The guide says that these assessments make it easier for the US government to step in and help protect reform gains and hold the regime accountable. In this context, USAID International Poverty-Georgia highlights the work, noting that "over the past decade, it has become clear that Georgia's richest oligarch [Bidzina Ivanishvili] has hijacked the state." Their research investigates the impunity of corrupt officials, Georgia's growing economic dependence on Russia, and the oligarch's secret businesses in Russia.

The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party blasted the report. For example, the chairman of GD, Irakli Kobakhidze, called the information on Georgia absurd and said that "it is sad that such absurd phrases are written under the auspices of USAID." As Kobakhidze told the journalists, in the document they preach the previous government and criticize the current one. "This is simply low-quality bureaucratic work, brochures, which are then put on the shelf and gather dust," said the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, while talking about the report published by USAID. Papuashvili also added that "Transparency International-Georgia," on which the USAID report is based, has a political agenda.

According to the member of the parliamentary majority, Irakli Zarqua, there are people embedded in USAID who are focused on the circulation of topics invented by the activists of the "National Movement" and then transferred to the paper. Zarqua said that the agency was wrong to trust Eka Gigauri's conclusions at Transparency International.