Construction workers die in Lake, EU meeting, Zugdidi school Otsneba pressure, Speaker to Serbia Korea set up print shop in parliament, NATO brass visit, comments on NATO (yawn), MP meets Bernie, whacky socks, BI campaign stop in Samegrelo Otsneba brass says just a visit, Beselia sex tape (again), Diaspora chair quits, new ed law, European Georgia still clutching onto their goofy pension scheme, land ownership bureaucracy proposal, new forrest code, Misha kisses Trumps ass (again), social worker progress, IDPs take over complex, knuckle draggers rally outside embassies of countries with Muslims, State talks drugs, lead, Batumi fines cows
THINGS TO READ
**Great article in the Atlantic, “The West Takes NATO for Granted. One Country Still Wants In. As the transatlantic alliance turns 70, Georgia—situated on Russia’s doorstep—desperately hopes to join.” Link: https://bit.ly/2FPRG0T
**The Caucasus Research Resource Center Georgia released a USAID funded study on “Countering Anti-Western Discourse in Social Media.” Link: https://bit.ly/2IeN3A7
**Eurasianet published an interesting piece on Tarkhan Batirashvili, the ISIS commander known as Omar Al-Shishani. Link: https://bit.ly/2FOUTxv
**OC Media wrote about the challenges of raising autistic children in Georgia. Link: https://bit.ly/2CPYlYa
**Chai Khana published a short documentary about a man who lives along in an abandoned village in the Truso Valley. Link: https://bit.ly/2TRPydW