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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 photo of Sophia Loren with opera singer Nino Surguladze outside the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater. She was in Georgia to attend a charity concert at the Opera on behalf of Wishing Tree, a children’s charity founded by Surguladze.
Link: http://tiny.cc/7f7gcy
THINGS TO READ
The Washington Post interviews Tiniko Khidasheli, and she is not happy with NATO and EU dithering over Georgia’s membership status.
Link: http://bit.ly/28RmITM
Tom Balmforth writes in The Guardian about rules barring foreigners, including Russians, from buying real estate in Abkhazia.
Link: http://bit.ly/28Vd9q6
Joseph Alexander Smith also writes in The Guardian about some of Tbilisi’s little-known treasures.
Link: http://bit.ly/28QTwvN
The press office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has a primer on the Great and Holy Council.
Link: http://bit.ly/1WYLyrz
Giorgi Lomsadze writes in EurasiaNet about Georgia’s efforts to counter the misperception in Germany that Georgian immigrants are criminals.
Link: http://bit.ly/28USBj4
The German Marshall Fund of the United States has a policy paper on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova ahead of next month’s NATO Summit in Warsaw.
Link: http://bit.ly/28RPIvw
The CRRC blog looks at public perceptions of surveillance in Georgia.
Link: http://bit.ly/28RmSuf
Foreign Policy has a piece on Ukraine’s failing highway system, and Misha’s quest to rebuild the M15 Highway is covered in detail.
Link: http://bit.ly/291rCAm
Hans Gutbrod and William Dunbar analyze projections for the parliamentary elections on the 8th of October. This is their second analytical piece, and they’ll be doing a few more before the polls open.
Link: http://bit.ly/28RmA9z
Paul Rimple writes in Culinary Backstreets about Andria, a Sololaki resident who sells some fantastic chacha.
Link: http://bit.ly/28TgtVt
Lela Chakhaia writes in Open Democracy about the risk the EU is taking by kicking the can on visa liberalization with Georgia.
Link: http://bit.ly/28USlkl
Dominic K. Cagara of DF Watch interviews Ruslan Asad, an Azerbaijani civil society activist who is working with ethnic Azeris in Georgia.
Link: http://bit.ly/28VdFV7