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The MEME this week: a video titled “Don’t Go to Georgia.” Link: http://bit.ly/2xLOI8f
THINGS TO READ
**Civil.ge spoke to four current and former members of parliament about their views on the new constitution.
Link: http://bit.ly/2A9S1Yi
**The ISET Economist blog wrote about the differing voting patterns of rural and urban Georgians. Link: http://bit.ly/2z4lv9T
**Carnegie Europe’s Tom de Waal published an article on Abkhazia. Link: http://ceip.org/2xKXFi4
**Eurasianet wrote about the impact that the new ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land is having on individuals and will have on the economy overall. Link: http://bit.ly/2A9oZrW
**Michael Cowgill, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia, published an opinion piece in The Hill arguing for an American-Georgian Free Trade Agreement. Link: http://bit.ly/2iOcPQX
**Post Pravda interviewed Gocha Gobadze, a Georgian man with HIV. Link: http://bit.ly/2zphIah
**If you missed Dina Oganiva’s Tbilisi exhibit at the beginning of October, you can see some of the photographs from her “Girls from the Future” series on Post Pravda. Link: http://bit.ly/2h4xxLY
**The Atlantic posted some more photographs by photographer Amos Chapple, this time of the annual sheep and shepherd migration from mountainous Tusheti to near the Azerbaijani border. Link: http://theatln.tc/2yjoVZu