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The MEME this week is a collection of black and white photos of massages in the baths of Tbilisi from 1890. Link: http://bit.ly/1uIDlYc
THINGS TO READ
An article on CRRC’s blog about trust in institutions in the South Caucasus. Link: http://bit.ly/1j2KMpF
NDI had a pre election delegation that included Per Eklund, former
head of the EU in Georgia; Sam Gejdenson, NDI board member, Robert
Adams, and Laura Jewett and Luis Navarro NDI staff. Link: http://bit.ly/1mICdOY
An article in Transparify.org about the hardest working NGO in the Caucasus, TI Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/1m4FgCA
An article by journalist Mari Nikuradze in DFWatch.net about the village Erisimedi, a small village on the Georgia-Azerbaijan border with a population of just a few hundred people. Link: http://bit.ly/1steTbi
Check out Chase Stoudenmire’s blog ChaseStoudenmire.us to get weekly summaries of Georgian news. Link: http://bit.ly/1s94647
Check out the Travel House project on Indiegogo.com by the Travel Club. Link: http://bit.ly/1qkPJy4
The 5th episode of Eurasianet.org’ Tamada Tales by Giorgi Lomsadze profiling Iran’s forbidden rockers. Link: http://bit.ly/1nXLEh5
It would be fantastic if you could let people know about the workshop tour and odd cultural day organised by The Northern Georgian Society in the UK this June.
• Monday 16th June Open workshop Bristol contact bristolgeorgianchoir@gmail.com
• Wednesday 18th June workshop with Wakefield Youth Choir AND open workshop in Holmfirth at Hot Banana Music shop contact Loobie40@yahoo.co.uk
• Thursday 19th June workshops with the Praise Choir Wakefield Cathedral contact ali.bullivent@wakefield-cathedral.org.uk
• Saturday 21th June workshop in Oxford contact michaelbloom1@compuserve.com
• Sunday 22nd June Cultural Day in Bath – tickets from http://www.northerngeorgiansociety.co.uk
• Monday 23rd June – The Skill of the Wise Georgian Woman London tickets and details via http://www.northerngeorgiansociety.co.uk
• Wednesday 25th June workshop in Cambridge
• Thursday 26th June workshop in Cambridge contactMiranda.gray@ntlworld.com
• Friday 27th June Private workshop Cheltenham
• Saturday 28th June Open Day workshop Cheltenham contact jayemay@hotmail.co.uk 07974793251
• Sunday 29th June Workshop and Performance Somerset contact as.anderson@btinternet.com
Further details can be found at http://www.northerngeorgiansociety.co.uk
Hi guys, for those who didn’t have half an hour to listen to the Studio Monitori report a few weeks back, here’s the print version of the story that will curl your hair: there’s some nasty stuff being burned in Georgian car engines.
https://reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/en/ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/2445-dirty-diesel