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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.
Foreign Policy has released their annual list of the top 100 Global Thinkers of the year. Eka Zguladze is on the list as one of the “challengers.’ Link: http://atfp.co/1XCA0uT
The statement of NATO foreign ministers on NATO’s open door policy. Link: http://bit.ly/1Puzfja
Thomas de Waal writes on the bad situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia after the 2008 war; he argues Georgia should support Abkhazia’s sovereignty so it doesn’t become a Crimea. Link: http://bit.ly/1Ore7J4
In Al Jazeera, Mansur Mirovalev writes that Russia, by embargoing Georgian wine for years, inadvertently led to an effort to improve Georgian wine and promoted it in the West. Link: http://bit.ly/1OJr9jm
In the lead-up to the NATO meeting, Reuters reported that NATO diplomats were split on what messages to send Georgia concerning its hopes for membership. Link: http://reut.rs/1IrNpPq
Al Jazeera’s ‘Listening Post’ has a program on media crackdowns, they include the Rustavi 2 drama. Link: http://bit.ly/1OqW1qw
Carol Williams of the LA Times argues that Misha is not succeeding in reforming Odessa. Link: http://lat.ms/1OAkSZc
There is a new IndieGoGo campaign by Georgian journalist Natalia Antelava, for the organization Coda Story, to bring back long-term investigative journalism. Link: http://bit.ly/1lZJxew
Rayhan Demytrie of the BBC reports from one of the Ergneti Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meetings, on the border with South Ossetia. Link: http://bbc.in/1NDd7Tr
Vogue thinks you should spend your holiday in Georgia, for food, the old city, Georgian dances, sulphur baths, and Rooms hotel. Link: http://vogue.cm/1N5kZaL