3 thoughts on “TBLPOD6nov2014”

1. The MEME this week is a photo on facebook made by a journalist from Maestro TV. It shows Gharibashvili as the jealous wicked queen from Disney’s Snow White. Caption: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the highest ratings of them all?” Alasania appears in the glass. Link: http://on.fb.me/1yc2BGp

   THINGS TO READ

   George Lomsadze for Eurasianet with a full rundown on the political crisis, in his always concise and elegant way. Link: http://bit.ly/1s9HGz2

   Great piece by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Their journalist goes undercover to report on labour abuse in Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/1oqrSwt

   Sergei Markedonov asks in Open Democracy: ‘what does Russia really what with Abkhazia?’ Link: http://bit.ly/1vocrCp

   BuzzFeed editor Miriam Elder visited Georgia a few weeks back; she has a list-icle on why you should visit Georgia. Spoiler alert: khachapuri, views, you know the drill. Link: http://bzfd.it/1picSld

   Tom de Waal for Carnegie looks at the political crisis, and mulls whether it may boost President Margvelashvili. Link: http://ceip.org/10vUol1

   David Kakabadze, the head of RFE/RL’s Georgian service, also addresses the political crisis and argues it is good for the Georgian political scene. Link: http://bit.ly/1z4Kxz0

   Michael Cecire takes on the political crisis, focuses mostly on a what-if there are new parliamentary elections scenario, who might benefit, who might suffer, where Nino Burjaniadze may end up in all this. Link: http://bit.ly/1yc2RVP

   Vestnik Kavkaza on speculation whether the GD coalition will split further. Link: http://bit.ly/1zuXvsL

   Tbilisi-residing Annina Lehmann writes for The Black Sea on life in Pankisi Gorge. Link: http://bit.ly/1oqs66V

   A Little infographic from NGO the Netherlands Institute for Multi-Party Democracy. Gives a breakdown of parties and their seats in the parliament. Link: http://bit.ly/1okiudR

   **Joanna Parasuk writes again for RFE/RL, tracking IS. This time she has a look at the politics behind taking on the nom de guerre ‘shishani’ – which is the Chechen in Arabic. Apparently, some are dubbing Umar Shishani as Umar Gruzini – the Georgian. Link: http://bit.ly/1tjyjgr

   Previously we featured a blog by a girl in Georgia, called No Sex and The City. This week she has a round-up of a lot of the bars in Tbilisi, some known and some hidden. Very useful post for barhoppers. Link: http://bit.ly/1wBbsTv

   Joseph Alexander Smith writes for Global Voices on some efforts by Tbilisi residents to reclaim their sidewalks. Link: http://bit.ly/1uEuZUo

   An argument by the German Finance Minister on why ‘taxation must go global.’ Link: http://bit.ly/1uEhdjZ See the accompanying chart of countries that have already committed to exchanging tax information. Georgia’s not on that list. Link: http://bit.ly/1xbsyXb

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2. Detection of “radioactive aerosols in the air” is actually a false-flag operation conducted covertly by the Ministry of Defence; it is a mispronunciation of how they describe Russian long-range bomber crews…..

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3. I am glad you are tackling the femicide going on in Georgia. Your listeners might be interested in the tribute I pay her in this poem on Unspoken Georgian http://sarahcobham1.blogspot.co.uk/ entitled Femicide. This piece is part of a series of poetry and prose that explore my own relationship with Georgia. Three sections are due to be posted in the Independent in the new year.

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