TBLPOD10dec2015

Patriarch pardon talk, pardon influence scandal, Die Welt says visa free for Ukraine and Georgia in 2016, Russian chopper in Geo airspace, shots fired into Nationals office in Kakheti, China free trade talks start, Kazakhs sell Batumi terminal, Georgian last playboy, Kaladze meet Miller again, PM in Bulgaria, Tiniko in DC CSIS, Georgians in Turkish prisons, Georgian fighter killed in Ukraine, right hand drive car ban, Margvel and Misha’s presidency, Beruchashvili as UK Ambo, Gardebani gamgebeli, Khaindrava complains of Otsneba informal decisions, Alasania: bring in the Germans, inflation, Russian ABL kidnapping, Leyla Yunis released in Baku, forex up, FDI up, Saguramo hydro, World Bank road safety, electricity transit task forces, Greek Abkhaz snafu, married 13 year old, worker dies in Kobuleti, FB fraud arrest, ProCredit and Liberty ATM link, Interpol turk nabbed at airport, judo, soprano, IDP building, dancing videos

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  1. The MEME this week is a video that went viral of a woman doing Chechen dancing on Marjanishvili. Link: http://on.fb.me/1RdA14k

    And a second video that went viral of older men doing Georgian dancing on the hillside. Link: http://on.fb.me/1jSa3EQ

    Time magazine has the top 100 photos of 2015: It includes the famous photo of Begi the Tbilisi zoo hippo loose on the streets after the 13th of June flood. Link: http://ti.me/1Nfqjug

    Reuters also has a collection of the pictures from 2015 — which features the same photo of Begi the hippo and interviews the photographer. Link: http://reut.rs/1QfmaKs

    Judy Dempsey writes for Carnegie Europe about Montenegro being invited to join NATO. NATO says it proves their open door policy; she says this open door does not apply to Georgia. Link: http://ceip.org/1HR1WUV

    In Eurasia Review, Paul Goble writes on Putin diverting world attention away from Ukraine — and away from the annexation of South Ossetia. Link: http://bit.ly/1Q5VVqd

    The Al Jazeera report on the Rustavi 2 ownership issue as a political struggle between the ruling Georgian Dream coalition and the former ruling UNM. Link: http://bit.ly/1IZ7dVf

    The CRRC looks at mothers and employment in Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/1RdA6VB

    Agenda.ge reports on some Dutch technology to lift and save an old building in Old Tbilisi. Link: http://bit.ly/1jSabEk

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