TBLPOD15may2014

Bad gas, Van Rompuy, more R2 spy stuff, no tanks, cops seek gay waiters, another Kez charge, Girwood, NDI: folks like Ilia, Dreams candidates, Turks & Abkhaz, UNM event, UNM gets 5 back, UNM prisoner video video, Hollande visits signs stuff, French biz cash, Stalin briefly back in Gori, LGBT premier canceled, author shot, family values, new WB strategy, EY entrepreneur race, TBC to IPO in UK, Victory Day, Georgia Eurovision jury cheats, data laws, tolerance, Mestia airport, OGP, Nodia, Mutso, internet #s, fashion, purges, tourists up

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  1. 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. Link: http://bit.ly/RHwZcn

    The MEME this week is a photo of Queen Tamar Airport in Mestia, which was nominated as one of the 10 most beautiful airports in the world by the BBC. Link: http://bit.ly/RHx8fW

    THINGS TO READ
    An article on JumpStart.ge about implementing the Open Government Partnership in Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/RHx9jV

    An article by political scientist Gia Nodia for Tabula about mainstreams and marginals and how these terms are used to both describe and attack people and opinions in Georgian society. Link: http://bit.ly/1ow2a8n

    An article on Agenda.ge about the village of Mutso, a popular destination for tourists and mountain trekkers in the Khevsureti region of eastern Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/1ow268C

    An article by the hardest working NGO in the Caucasus, TI Georgia by Ana Dabrundashvili about the popularity of the internet in Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/1jOCaT2

    An article in oystermag.com by correspondent War Dandy waxing poetic about Tbilisi Fashion Week, a so-called “crumbling Soviet city”. Link: http://bit.ly/RzRY0L

    One thing to watch: An emotional videoreportage by Eurasianet.org journalist Giorgi Lomsadze, who interviews the surviving victims of Stalin’s purges. Link: http://bit.ly/1nQEkUN

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