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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 photoshopped picture going around facebook, of Georgian parliamentarians on the bodies of Swan Lake ballet dancers. Because they were fighting and jumping on each other in parliament. Link: http://on.fb.me/14h4DN4
THINGS TO READ
A new post from the Guardian’s New East Network, on Tango in Tbilisi. Link: http://bit.ly/14h4R6G
There’s a startup in Seattle called DeeHubs, created by Georgians, that’s getting some buzz. They project people’s messages onto urban spaces, for free. Link: http://kng5.tv/1rILHRv
In South Caucasus interest: RFE/RL has a timeline on the repressions in Azerbaijan, 2014. Link: http://bit.ly/1txDzob
Agenda.ge has a comparison, celebrating New Year’s in Georgia 1895 vs 2015. Link: http://bit.ly/1D9VOjs
An article by Giorgi Kalatozishvili for Vestnik Kavkaza about the Inguri hydropower plant in between Georgia and Abkhazia, its future and repercussions. Link: http://bit.ly/1403I2L
His Holiness Ilia II was enthroned as Catholicos-Patriarch 37 years ago on December 25th. (Not “entombed.”) Many years to His Holiness!