Okuashvili tells all, BI involved, Rustavi 2 says Vashadze in lead, BI praises Zurabashvili, GNCC says we didn’t do it re ad, campaign stops, lots of anti Muslim migration BS, MP chikovani leaves Euro Geo faction, 25 years since fall of Sokhumi, res Estonia, Slovakia, and Ukraine talked Georgia in UN, Margvel also in NYC and West Point, still working on import export posts with Russia, Russians in Ossetia hold woman, Russian helicopters, French SAMs, 13 NGOs talk about specific grand corruption, LGBTQ office threats police do nothing, taxis will be white, plastic bags banned, IMF talks property and services prices, difference in how Abkhaz and Georgians remember war, piercing weirdo
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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 a series of photographs of Misha looking emotional superimposed with the song lyrics of other Georgia based rapper Kyba Watson’s song superhero, reading “sick of crying, tired of trying, yeah I’m smiling but inside i’m dying.” Link: https://tinyurl.com/y83jttq9
THINGS TO READ
**The International Monetary Fund released a report on technical advice provided by the IMF to the National Statistics Office, Geostat, regarding the creation of a residential property price index (RPPI) and the expansion of coverage of the producer price index (PPI). Link: https://bit.ly/2NltViY
**For the anniversary of the fall of Sukhumi, Chai Khana covered the Abkhaz conflict from two sides, the ways that storytelling has kept the war alive in Abkhazia, and the way that the conflict is fading from the memories of Georgian youth. Abkhaz Side Link:https://bit.ly/2xTh2qx Georgian Side Link: https://bit.ly/2xXwe5Q
**Radio Free Liberty/Radio Liberty published a short video reviewing the ultranationalist movement in Georgia and the events of this year. Link: https://bit.ly/2zQJHP7
**Chai Khana also covered the experience of eco-migrants from Adjara that moved to a German-founded Armenian and Greek town in Kvemo Kartli. Link: https://bit.ly/2Oy8f7Y
**The world piercing record holder, German Rolf Buchholz, visited Tbilisi at the end of September. Link: https://bit.ly/2Rw8GOK