Dighomi mob attacks Nigerian students, Police predictably screw up response, kid redeems Georgia by giving them their ball amidst it all, Kaladzes embarrassing response, Public Defender talks civil partnership for queer couples, South Osset and Abkhaz government don’t like Georgias proposal, Russia walks back Abkhaz Stink Bug Ban, State Security Report talks occupation and corruption, Pankisi Syria misidentification, Tadumadze heads government aparat, Popkhadze leads knuckle draggers cranky at Ninia appointment, Pres Margvel in UAE, Vedzisi shooting, GEM land permit turned down, tourist died on Kazbegi, Activists save tree from Bidzina, another new Abkhaz law aimed at harassing Gali residents, two shephards detained near Gori, Batiashvili will play Nobel solo, Freedom House says Georgia is hybrid, month of Easter
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A discussion in English of the week in Georgia (the one near Chechnya not the one near Alabama) Don't know what a podcast is? Don't worry, just click on it and listen. კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება! თუ ინგლისური იცით, დააჭირეთ ისარს და მოისმინეთ კვირის საინტერესო ამბები
Don't know what a podcast is? Don't worry, just click on it and listen. That's it. Nothing scary about it.
კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება! თუ ინგლისური იცით, დააჭირეთ ისარს და მოისმინეთ კვირის საინტერესო ამბები.
THINGS TO READ
**Freedom House released its annual Nations in Transit report, which looks at democratization in 29 post-Communist European and Eurasian countries. Link: https://bit.ly/2GOKgy1
**The Caucasus Research Resource Center and others have published a new edition of the Caucasus Analytical Digest, “Public Opinion in Georgia: New Caucasus Barometer Results.” Link: https://bit.ly/2HuEP4u
**Chai Khana wrote about and photographed the Tserovani IDP Settlement, outside of Tbilisi. Link: https://bit.ly/2GpW2ip
**Post Pravda published a series of photographs by Tatia Kinkladze titled “The Creeping Alienation of Tbilisi.” Link: https://bit.ly/2IMusbG
**The Calvert Journal included work by Georgian photographers David Meskhi and Grigor Devejiev in a short survey of post-Soviet photography. Link: https://bit.ly/2IxQ0ZD
**JAM News photographed an ethnically Armenian village in Samtskhe-Javakheti that celebrates Easter for an entire month. Link: https://bit.ly/2HhRIRO
**Eurasianet wrote about making Paska, the traditional Georgian Easter cake. https://bit.ly/2Hb60DV