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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 an Imedi TV segment about a bebia in Svaneti who cooks traditional foods with marijuana in them. Link: http://bit.ly/2Enryg1
THINGS TO READ
**Former TBLPOD writer Joseph Larsen wrote about how Georgia could resist authoritarian pressure for the Georgian Institute of Politics. Link: http://bit.ly/2svi4cR
**Civil.ge interviewed New Zealand academic Rouben Azizian on the relationship between Nauru and South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Link: http://bit.ly/2EbipGU
**Jam News wrote about a 2017 deal between the Georgian government and Gazprom in the context of a 2018 natural gas balance sheet just published by the Ministry of Economy. Link: http://bit.ly/2sfyar4
**OC Media gathered all of the currently available information on Akhmed Chatayev, the November Isani Special Operation, and aftermath into one story. Link: http://bit.ly/2GxEpJS
**Chai Khana wrote about and photographed Tbilisi’s historic courtyards. Link: http://bit.ly/2BJ6w9D
**The Spaces wrote about Georgia’s Soviet monuments, exploring the different ways that monuments have been preserved and the Soviet period either condemned or memorialized. Link: http://bit.ly/2smYgYY
**Culinary Backstreets wrote about the revival of Georgia’s tea industry. Link: http://bit.ly/2EQls4v
**Jam News also published a series of photographs, videos, and stories about ballet in Georgia. Link: http://bit.ly/2BLPyaX
**Chai Khana also filmed a school in Batumi, one of 12 in Georgia where disabled students are integrated into the student body. Link: http://bit.ly/2Eq9Yae