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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.
The MEME this week is on mymaika.ge, you can get a graphic Tee shirt of Bidzina’s old tree floating on the Black Sea. Link: http://bit.ly/1MYEgju
Journalists David Bloss and Nino Bakradze of the Organized Crime And Corruption Reporting Project investigate what assets of BI’s were revealed in the Panama Papers. Link: http://bit.ly/1qzBKH2
Giorgi Lomsadze for Tamada Tales details the information war in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Link: http://bit.ly/1SUye2M
A post by ‘The Accidental Geographer’ Ryan McCarrel explaining that the Karabakh conflict distracts the root problem of two illiberal regimes. Link: http://bit.ly/23cOhBi
Paul Salopek in Politico has a dispatch from “Putin’s mysterious moving border” — the boundary line with South Ossetia. Link: http://politi.co/238H6Xg
In Retrograd, Will Dunbar explores the history of Number 22 Ingorovka street, the Bolshevik’s secret police prison. Link: http://bit.ly/1Ujxpns
CNN Money goes to Tbilisi to talk plans for economic growth with Prime Minister Kvirikashvili. Link: http://cnnmon.ie/1SEsNT1
American travel blog duo Belarmino post on their walking tour of crumbling Old Tbilisi. Link: http://bit.ly/1S7hRmw
RT reports that Misha said it would be ‘humiliating’ to have a foreigner head the Ukrainian cabinet. Link: http://bit.ly/20dHMsD
In the Guardian, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda explains why she is investigating possible war crimes in the Russia-Georgia war. Link: http://bit.ly/1q3Q61F
4Plus photograph the struggles and hidden world of domestic violence in Armenia. Link: http://nyti.ms/1qbBJIq
Tara Burton sings an ode to Tbilisi kitsch in National Geographic. Link: http://on.natgeo.com/1SSJcFU
There will be a graphic comic coming out in 2017 of Rustaveli’s A Knight in Panther’s Skin, created by painter David Machavariani. Link: http://bit.ly/1RIpT34
The BBC talks Georgia’s sex tape mystery and muses who could be behind it. Link: http://bbc.in/1NdlY8Z
The Financial Times explores the rebirth of film-making in Georgia. Link: http://on.ft.com/1S7hYOX
Breitbart reports that according to German federal police, Georgia sends gangs over to Germany under the guise of asylum seekers in order to commit theft and crime. Link: http://bit.ly/1YiGaw4
The State Minister for European Integration Dato Bakradze advertises for a new book, a collection on ‘Georgia’s European Ways.’ Link: http://bit.ly/25P8dZR
TBC bank created an animated video to explain the history of rugby in Georgia. They’re new sponsors of the Lelos. Link: http://bit.ly/1SUyy1u