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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
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The MEME this week: A visualization from Speaking Stones shows scenes in Tbilisi during the civil war in 1992 compared to the same locations in 2013. Link: http://goo.gl/BtlLHy
THINGS TO READ
An article by Sergei Markedonov about the Georgian-Russian relations. Link: http://goo.gl/41sP1y
An article by Mari Nikuradze about the conflict over a minaret that was dismantled in the village of Chela. Link: http://goo.gl/YUEDgS
An article by Eva Anderson about The Tbilisi Bypass project. Link: http://goo.gl/RT2yKp
An article on TI Georgia about SMS advertisements and Georgia’s first personal data protection inspector. Link: http://goo.gl/6969fe
ISET’s October report on the Georgian consumer confidence barometer. Link: http://goo.gl/HGnw8K
ANNOUNCEMENTS
This week’s English language movie at Rustaveli Movie Theater across from the Parliament is: On Saturday, the 14th of November and Wednesday, the 20th of November “Thor: The Dark World” at 10:30 PM.
The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia will host a mixed media installation project called the “Charms of War” by Syrian artist Abdalla Omari. The project will last till the 19th of November. For additional details visit their FB page: http://goo.gl/ed7wDY
From the 14th of November till the 17th of November Amirani Cinema invites cinema goers to the Slovak Film Days in Georgia. For 4 days, Georgian audiences have the opportunity to watch classic as well as contemporary Slovakian cinematography. Entrance is free. For additional details check out the Facebook link: http://goo.gl/1ZObHn
From the 14th of November till the 24th of November Georgian National Museum Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts will host the international multimedia exhibition “Heritage”. The project will raise awareness of the importance of cultural, social and personal heritage. Address: #1 Lado Gudiashvili Street. For additional details visit: museum.ge.
Mark, I believe you should demand a more accurate translation from your aides. Margvelashvili did not say in his interview to the Russian Channel that he will go to Sochi. He said “this possibility is being deliberated in the team”, which is obviously short of decision to go, even though to many this is also objectionable.
I would like to point out that Identoba was going to open a 4 month winter shelter for homeless people + families, not children. The organization got a generous offer from an unknown person to use his or her 80 meter square apartment in Bagebi to open a homeless shelter. A number of other organizations, e.g. social workers, psychologists and lawyers, were supposed to collaborate to make this work. The idea was announced up to 2 months ago and Identoba was actively gathering donations for the project.
The drama started when the secretary at the Patriarchate – Michael Botkoveli suddenly announced that the shelter would, in fact, be for children, and that Identoba would indoctrinate them into becoming gays. He also said that the Church would not let this happen. Moreover, Neighbors started calling the owner of the apartment space saying that they did not want to have such a shelter run by Identoba in their neighborhood and that they would actively oppose its proper functioning.
Based on this negative reaction Identoba decided to give up this particular option, but said that they would spend already gathered resources in the same direction and come up with another way of opening a shelter.
Follow link for more info:
http://identoba.com/2013/11/13/shelter-3/