TBLPOD16april2015

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Regional representation in parliament, cop killer found, Pankisi kids in Syria update, Easter pardons, Northern EU FMs visit: visa free may wait, Interpol drops Adeishvili, Russia flights, Margvel and pope, new Japanese word for Georgia, EU and border guards, banks cut interest rates paid, Ucha v Jobs.ge, fiber cables, Georgians say they are religious, GDP forecast cut by IMF, Duch investors, arbitration council seat, MEPs and genocide, IDP money, Brazil visa free, Rasul Jafarov sentences and Ismayilova award, Sergeenko hires Brits, NOW Syrians and Iraqis getting asylum, inflation, AIDS, illegal border crossing in marshutka roof, woman bosses in Georgia, Deda Ena Day, translations for free, Peace Park game, ballet, illegal seizures meet in secret, free lawyers, abandoned Imereti, eleven NYC Geo restaurants!

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TBLPOD9april2015

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Air defense, cop shot, Pankisi kids to ISIS, NGOs mad Gov is listening, Romania def min, Danish, Polish Swedish FMs to visit, Gharibashvili wants Sakdrisi gold mine working, EU ratifications, Turk, Az, Geo Def Mins meet, ODIHR shows up, ANP to NATO, Chinese factories in Kutaisi, ex US Embassy Orbeliani palace not sold by gov, bad sit for transgender in Geo, totaled German car import, Marneuli fight, Swiss landslide warning machine, Turkish lira counterfeit arrest, Russian cell company in Abkhazia and South Ossetia now in Georgia, Nigerians students die of gas poisoning, EU health deal signed, Ajara $, Margvel gives health min a medal, Japanese woman like Geo wine, US Coast Guard memorial, Geguti getting fixed up, new power line to Armenia, Google Maps expanding, docs on mountains get support, remains of Geo war dead from 2008, biodegradable bags, Kutaisi to Istanbul 30 Euro, tiny streets named for women, oxygen leak in Imereti, solidarity fund, PM has son, Corn Island prize, AIESEC forum, new parliamentary committee chairs, the Patriarch ok’s caviar.

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TBLPOD2april2015

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Beso Khardziani killed, maybe re Kus Tba, Def Min in France re air defense, no extradition for Misha, IPP drop, PM delays Kiev trip cause ticked, FM in Brussels, Usup wants to speed up constitution comish, EU neighborhood reports says all, Germans ratify Asoc Agreement, new Geo NAto guy, Margvel to meet Pope, Azeris detain Gogia of Human Rights Watch, Armenian sportsmen to Baku, Margvel no thanks to Kremlin for WWII visit, Ucha slams Prosecutors, new rebel judge to Constitutional Court, NATO conference with Larry Diamond in Tbilisi, young Geo inventors to NASA, Israeli aviation factory planned, Dinola movie prize, SO scholarships, Batumi synagogue returned, Ergneti chat, Polish Army deal, Lelo Rugby update, Geo open gov rank high, wine to China, Gardabani greenhouse, Samegrelo wind, Georgia in AIIB, wind farm, Nowruz fail, more flights, fake visa priests, Hilton Batumi opens, free Kakheti WiFi park, Margvel speech dis, Shushanik, Snoop

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TBLPOD26march2015

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Mark Mullen

UNM rally, Roland off, new IRI numbers, Nat Bank says rate stays same at 4.5%, Geneva talks tense, Nowruz in Marneuli, procs grill ex def min guy, Imedi says Dream pressure, Norway parliament boss visit, NGOs on Industry anti-west talk, PM to Kiev delay, Econ Min on China trade, Dutch investors, State says drug drop, Hep C plan, bacteria warning, interior min firing for Givi Targ info, Batumi mosque plan, university entrance exams, Margvel marches on World Down Syndrome Day, Big Shuakhevi dam loans, Airport top, international prosecutor group says sure fine go after UNM guys, biathlon track in Bakuriani, Lelo’s dominate, manuscript translation, Georigan and Korean sailors, Judo, Zaza Pachulia dominates, eggs in Italy, Donetsk kids visit, UK 28 mil, Georgian opera singers in La Scala, Georgians negative, Gvenetadze confirmed to head Supreme Court

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TBLPOD19march2015

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Keeping Ugulava in, Topadze doesn’t like NATO or NGO’s, South Ossetia annexation, Dream riot in Zugdidi, Ed Min shows anti-UNM video to kids, city hall reshuffle, new US Ambo named, NATO survey team, Geo, Turk, Az presidents meet about pipeline, BI apears on his new 2030 show says people are confused, Kaladze talks to Abkhaz re Enguri Dam, Martvili by-election, BGI lawyer beat up, Zhvania forensic doc acquitted, Margvel speech delayed, Croatia signed, US exercises, EU customs doc, Geo joins EULIS, expensive furniture, Istanbul consul mess, Hyatt on Rustaveli soon, Swedish grant on services, Japan one village one product, Kikabidze Ukraine asylum, Greek arrests, aerial photo, ski win, 122 for deaf, LED street lamps, Moody’s says 3.5 growth 2015, HIV testing for youth, Kvirikashvili is honest, spelling bee

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TBLPOD12march2015

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Just Min dises Persians etc, Russia drills, China econ trip, gamgeblebi better build, lari news, photo puncher, gov upholstery ban, dep FM neighborhood chat, Czech shuki front ticked, OSCE longing, Brazil visa free, goofy Batumi tower sold, NetGazeti prize, Georgians at US Coast Guard Academy died in car wreck, female prisoners pardoned, Geo soldiers go to Afghanistan, Japan bus aid, EU vocation cash, Swiss meat in Racha, almond planting, stop for those on foot, Gabriadze at Lincoln Center, Kakheti anti hail missiles, tax forgiven, lynx spotted, Margvel speech, noise law

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TBLPOD12feb2015

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Proc Gen from Parl, VazagashGate grenade arrest, Margvel Supreme Court short list, Def Min resignation, PM and VP Munich chat, PM with Orban, construction bribe, Geo e-visas, certain forces chatter, Margvel parl speech, Bundestag pres visit, Russian NATO goon Grushko ticked, Sida Goga Gigauri stuff, Otsneba looses majority in Ajara assembly, illegal Vake Park hotel construction still halted, Kutaisi cop wife driver issue, Bulgaria visa simplification, Prison 17 chief arrested, Khobe direct sale for laurel trees to Tamazishvilis, frank Alasania interview, ISAF honors, Abkhaz graves, Poland ratifies, Poti fishermen angry, Gmaps changes to Sokhumi, Geo movies, Misha on Ukrainian army beating Russia, TBC snow machines, Astana, Swede Geo Chamber of Commerce, ADB west water fixing, 20 Geo start ups get Estonian help, Lelos smash Germany, lots of Georgian books, ad law targets R2, zebra crossing in Tbilisi

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TBLPOD5feb2015

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Mark Mullen

5 cops charged for ’06 op in VazagashviliGate, NATO Vershbow visit, Irma Inaishvili Kvitsiani protest re punishing UNM, BI’s research on NGO leaders, NATO meeting, Public Defender lawsuit on Interior Min server hoover, Kadagidze on exchange rate and growth, Guerrilla Gardening Vake Park hotel protests, PaNOrama protests, Econ and Energy mins in Kiev, John Kerry to visit Tbilisi, Adeishvili in Kiev, Rustavi 2 interview on Vazagashvili, DCFTA with EU non EEC member, US 51 million for Geo and Moldova, two more charged re Zhvania death, Margvel discussed new parliament structure multi-member constituencies, Putin signs Abkhazia annexation, Russian border guards attach Abkhaz Armenians, Socar and gas price increase, Donetsk unrecognized states summit, new proc dept on legal proceeding botch ups, USAID good gov, Human Rights Watch says Geo not dealing with attacks against UNM, Free Generation rab rousers, Meskhi to Oscars, EU ILO pay for union chats, Synetic Theater in DC awards, Chinese hotel Tbilisi Sea, French in Tskhaltubo, Margvel son born, labor migration law mess

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TBLPOD22jan2015

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Exploding plant, Kist protest, EU brass Hahn visit, Geo soldier falls at Donetsk Airport, Arminia family murder by Russian soldier, OSCE parl visit, Oscar talk, Geo joins EU Ukraine Advisory Mission, NATO sec gen to visit in Feb, Garibashvili in Davos, new Supreme Court leader chat, Zguladze on Ukraine traffic police reform, Interior brass to Spain, (non) univ tower in Batumi to be sold, lost shepherd in Ergneti froze, 2:1 lari/$, EBRD SMEs, Enguri talks, Daesh whacko from Batumi, Armenian churches, priest who helped ferry passengers honored, Epiphany, prosecutors thank US, Koguasvhili Blind Date movie in Brussels, Zezva and Mzia in Israel, Japanese Telavi disabilities place, Sao Paulo Georigan film festival, Margvel: 2015 Year of Women, youth offenders change, bus tickets waved, Elbakidze collapses, Saturday Panorama protest 3pm Freedom Square

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TBLPOD15jan2015

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Mark Mullen

Getsadze and Ebanoidze appointed in Ukraine, Identoba threatened, Estonian PM says EU visa free in the bag, NDI Armenia closes, NATO talks in Brussels (Va!), Margvel appoints GYLA guy, more inclusion hopes for Supreme Court chair candidates, new lower Lari level, PM disses Pres on Parl speech, Mish sounds off on Geo Daesh guys, BI guest not host on show, Panorama plows ahead illegal and permit-less, Generation v Zone, 6K old Beri Kldeebi site permit-less builders, 5 killed in Gali, Geo taken from garden by Ossetians, ProCredit sells small loans, everybody Je Suis Charlie, Chikaidze says domestic violence is bad, big parking garage planned, Krtsanisi village protest, IFC cash to bottle plant, US ticked at Putin fan conductor Gergiev and singer Netrebko, embassy in Riyadh, textile plant, gov building inventory, Cartu talks new technical Univ, Rixos hotel in Likani, Jerusalem/Sokhumi/Santa, Kabanadze in Bagram with Breedlove, Japanese & Elkana, Dunkin Donuts, litter 120 lari fine, foreign fighter law

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TBLPOD25dec2014

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Def Min botches Georigan war death response, Sakdrisi protests, Maestro to be more anti-western so journos quit, Putin insults Misha in a speech because that’s really important for Russia right now, anti wire-tapping protests, South Ossetia annexation agreement, PM ticked off at UNM folk in Ukraine ministries, Margvel meets with Free Dems and Republicans, UN wrap up, Estonian FM visit, former NATO ambo from Lithuania will head EUMM, BI on Russia and open borders, EU Association Council, CoE projects, Ucha on Geguti prison problems, Ajara refugees ticked off, soldier shot, WiP on Stalin, two Oscar nominations for Geo movies, prison min reforms, legal mosques, Telavi emergency stuff, new GYLA boss, Chile Guatamala visa free relaunch, 2008 war Strasbourg trial, Tiflisi TV Show, Korea Svaneti dam, women’s rights

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TBLPOD27nov2014

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Abkhaz Russian “treaty” signed & hyperventilation, more MoD BS, 9th Block’s Back, prison torture letter, Misha charges, foreigners rape in Svaneti, Bendukidze funeral, leaning on Kvitsiani court, Latvia pres visit, lari plunge, Guantanamo Yemenis in Tbilisi, Margvel pardons, Georgian riot in Greece, violence against women demos, railway strikes, Hungry ratified EU deal, Free Gen at UNM, Fule said EU neighborhood policy irrational, Georgian Battalion back from Kandahar, Transgender day remembered, Sokhumi airport to Russians, gas pipeline 2, Giorgoba, Mall between Zugdidi and Abkhazia at bridge, Georgian movies in Kiev, Tbilisi homeless shelter, Tbilisi rugby stadium, Turkish corner, snow, tablecloths in Italy, Vardzia at night, Beselia’s bill for the Interior Ministry, wheelchairs in parking spots

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TBLPOD20nov2014

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Mark Mullen

UNM anti-Occupation demo, PM EU NATO charm trip, new #NightOfTheDullKnives appointments, Butba beaten, more Def Min “investigations”, Burjanadze says stuff, ZZ forensic doc dies, Margvel & Alasania chat, Kvitsiani drama, Bagram bombing, prison torture (not videos, now), US Army GEneral visit, Guria Gov says UNM stole his $, Lith FM says EU learn from 2008, Ossets kidnap more shepherds for “fines”, Sokhumi airport, Hep C drug, EU Parl will vote on Geo EU deal, EU NGO bash in Batumi, wind farm, new art school, women entrepreneur $, BI rugby award, blind police site, residence law amended, Margvel says we need institutions, crime

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TBLPOD14nov2014.2

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Mark Mullen

RIP Bendukidze, Beruchashvili now FM, Garibashvili Alasania spar, BI interview gems, Otsneba lobbying in DC, Pankisi fight, tranny killed, new Vano Misha charges, al Shishani killed? Margvel to Parl re EW, Narmania starts plating seeds. EBRD Dariali dam, angry priests, Abkhaz water to Sokhumi.

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TBLPOD13nov2014

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Mark Mullen

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TBLPOD6nov2014

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Def Min Sting! Alasania out! Free Dems out! NATO/EU direction? Banks can’t own biz, doc classification, Estonia ratifies Geo EU deal, Chechens dissed, Abkhaz say no thanks, young Lelos win, MFA: Donbas vote BS, PACE says Rus Abkhaz deal bad, 100 Geos fight with Kiev, Azeris give Geo church free gas, Turk speaker visits, monitoring radioactive aerosols (!?), PM’s Chugo replacement, more Corn Island gold, wild west weather, Sinai flights, surveillance law back to parl, single parents in law, Azrebi on aggression, mirror mirror

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TBLPOD23oct2014

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Russian Abkhazia annexation angst, Bacho & Vano sentenced, TSU prof murder suicide, more Muslim Christian village strife, NATO chief in town, Pankisi IS commander chatter, Usupashvili’s latter was ad, Azeri freedom of speech demos in Tbilisi, anti UNM demos, Jewish museum reopens, new EU ambo set up, Lith FM in town, students against gas station, Margvel in Japan, Turkish days, The President movie gets award, floods, Ukraine support rallies, Supreme Court appointments supported, violence against women, ego plates, Capa in Kutaisi

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TBLPOD16oct2014

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Russia moves to formalize Abkhazia’s colonial status under Khajimba, kidnapping GD UNM sparring, seventh IS Kist killed, residence mess for Armenians, Armenia joins Eurasia Economic Union, weapon cache, new Dagestan highway, Izoria talks destabilization, Paravani dam opens, Usupashvili in NYT on BI great Misha not, Justice Min excited Supreme Court head bolts in five months, new prison dep min, two nut pickers detained in Gali, US Ship in Batumi, Osset soccer match in Gori, Kazbegi trash airlift, Google Maps finishes Georgia in 2015, Kakheti highway better, Chinese scholarships, Olympic Committee visits, Wekua show in London, Petriashvili to Warsaw for NATO, Elisso Bolkvadze UNESCO Artist for Peace, Telavi Music Festival, NYT likes Botso doc, new NSC stuff, schools make kids Soviet and hate Muslims, drunk cop, Kutaisi bonuses, Peter F. Skinner book.

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TBLPOD9oct2014

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Free Fight on Pekini, fewer Abkhaz crossings, Jankarashvili runs Dream Party, PM notes residence permit probs, BI show plan is back, budget, Mogherini comments, Petriashvili in Brussels, Proc says Erosi not murdered, Geo couple detained in S.O., Russia leaves FLEX, spots to Neighborhood, Geo Lith Nato exercises, Zhvania guards tried, Margvel pardons, UNM council members not allowed in meeting, OSCE parl will meet in Batumi in 2016, GoG learn Geo site, Russia doesn’t want rebel training in Geo, Margvel Forbes interview, Margvel DC trip, Jehovahs Strasbourg win, illegal migrant facility opens, theater director Chkheidze back, Tangerines movie gets another award, new ambulances, Tkibuli earthquake, Iveri LGBT concert delay, vets kids get free MAs, Surami IDPs, 37th mass baptism, kickboxing win, Botti concert, Georgian film in Pusan, pensions

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TBLPOD25sept2014

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Mark Mullen

MP Pres dis, Misha’s grandma’s garden seized, Misha Brooklyn Hipster, more Ajara discord, Georgia anti-IS training space, Bildt Misha PR pact charge, Zhvania issue, Chirkba says Geneva yuck, Ajara floods, cops nab bent refs, PM’s wife’s cousin threatens “journalist”, Khudoni problems, PM to UN: we’re hydroing, new no foreigners to own ag land law, FB littering page, foreign gogoebi sic of BS, Zura Japaridze replaces Misha Machavariani as UNM exec sec, Free Movement yells in court, China flight, C.T. Park contract review, Arms Trade Treaty ratified, wrestling leadership snafu, US Army chief in town, gas line II happening, Alasania in Armenia, al-Shishani on US list, young judo champs, Slovakia said yes to association, Tangerines movie hauls in awards, Havel memorial in Vake, abortion and new gun laws, PM and Matt Damon, remittences, London Georgian lessons at UCL

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TBLPOD11sept2014

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Cops stop & frisk, PM Pres playpen bout continues, Patriarchy has bug bucks, Navarro letter, NATO in Wales, Hagel visit, EU Füle replaced by Austrian Hahn, Chikaidze disses Misha in Alia, Ajara GD Intifada, new weapon law, anti-Muslim Kobuletians nail pig head, Margvel married, Baku IREX raid, Russian & Armo Armies pretend to invade Turkey. PM to Baku, English speakers in Mushroom, crime map plan, GoG 20 mill VC plan, CENN off Khudoni enviro assessment, China biz trip, Art students still ticked, GoG interns, Ukraine medical aid, big five star Batumi hotel in a long time, poetry translation, Winters Tale in Brest, G&T is back, better young bride protection in the works, The Trio Mandili, FDI drop, Riga exhibition

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TBLPOD21aug2014

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Mark Mullen

More Misha money drama, Margval Commander in Chief change maybe, Abkhaz elections, Margvel PM tiff re docs, prescriptions, Kakha Targamadze passport, Bakradze bank declaration, CEC Chair says no prob to bishop, new base in Akhalkalaki, Geo Az and Turk Def Min chat, NATO summit, Def Min PR stunt with church, Yazidis show up, PM in Armenia, Dariali landslide, MEPs call for ratifying EU deal, Ugulava b-day party, Bulgarians nab PINs & get nabbed, KaZAntip fun, IDP gas stunt, Poles find Romans in Gonio, Georgians in Edinburgh Fringe, Tsavkisi fire, ambulances a mess, Imedi journalist chat re 2010 fake attack report, US war ship in Batumi, San Diego State opens via MCC, Georgians and salt, wrestlers, ID charge boost, residence card mess, Mary’s skirt, Batumi mosque, IMF, gold, road safety.

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TBLPOD14aug2014

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Bildt dis, Misha’s slush fund, FM on sanctions, Melnikov squawks, Vano charges, PM pres bout re classified doc release, French detained for pain killers, August war memorial, Erosi and Rafaliants, Kist IS leader maybe killed, new prescription drugs, Georgian Euro Chess Czar, Batumi cop bribe, MP Kandelaki bit, new Hague ambo, Yazidi demos, people who want to see Narmania fight, eyelid lifting, white horse to PM, Alasania in Afghanistan, overdose treatment improvement, Crimean Congo Fever, floods, Pachulia scores big, Laghodeki waterless village ticked, Ilia’s village gets two mill, drug bust, new Stalin bust, traitor graffiti, Bakuriani improvements, Kirtadze premieres in Toronto, no sex at KaZantip, ticketless Canadian detained

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TBLPOD7aug2014

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Deputy Mayors, more Misha stuff, Azeri soccer clash, Margvel’s judges rejected, NSC meeting, PM on media and NGO bias, Nato chief means business, US Russia sanctions, IMF cash, Azeri gas rule, Kakheti village water demo, mine worker death, Erdogan insulted by being called Georgian, new government charity fund, another KaZantip protest, five tons of plani, Batumi hotels, Studio Monitor on TB, Akhalgori schools skip Geo Hist, Osset Russians detain guys, free trade suspension, move bike, pardons, Geo D&G model, new cheap flights, Baku NY flights, Gvinjilia wins Benext, asylum desk at airport, Dartlo etc remonti, small biz help, Ajara skiing, Geo wine in China, surveillance chat, more foreigner land BS, Pekini ramp demise

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TBLPOD31july2014

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Misha charged, shuki mess, Gvaramia off, KUDI guy off, Kaladze & Cauk Online, Baramidze: ban Russian media, Batumi mosque, kaZantip protests, tourism guy fired, Israel support, school books, peaches to Russia, Russian cancels trade deal, 4.6 mil pop, Gldani Gulf fire, Vani floods, Geo Turk soccer clash, singer Buzaladze win, EBRD dumps Russia, McFaul shows up, Chikaidze and that Taliban person, Beselia Chiora fight, illegal abortion punishment, lame bonus reform, be weak, young Misha running

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TBLPOD17july2014

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Mark Mullen

#ErosiGate, Elections over, Shevy funeral, Strasbourg on anti-theif-in-law law, Procs question Mishas guards, first TBL sak session, Eshba fails Abkhaz exam, 2.8 tons of smack, Chikaidze rumor, Kaladze on R2, prisoners and guards via GYLA, Ergneti to reopen, brother harassed, Abkhaz body swap, fruit to Russia, neo-Lazika, GDS butt drum scandal, new Aspindza dig, Mestia flights, Tusheti chacha khanzi, Mercer says Tbilisi cheap, Corn Island award, DF Watch backs Iakob, pre trial detention to go from 90 to 15 days, exorcism in Kutaisi, Goltz on Shevy, residence visa info

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TBLPOD10july2014

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Shevy dies, Gigi jailed, Bishop Bishop Jakob BS, Mayor debate, BI TV show, foreigners ag land, Strasbourg rules for Georgia, Romania ratifies, second round, Rustavi race, Kakha Targamadze spouts off, drunk Poti Otsneba candidate stabs guy, Koridze on pardon comish, new UK Ambo, Dane aid boost, food safety, new lari symbol, Pirosmani grave, police car jack, 26 million bottles export, Natakhtari to Mestia flights, Georgia is safe, visitor drop, disabled tourists, new sports channel, Abkhaz pitch Suarez, Melua tax issues, Burtaoba, Penguins

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TBLPOD26june2014

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Mark Mullen

EU Ass Ag! UNM Baku Airport drama, Pataraia with Margvel, revotes, Narmania’s mom peeks, no MAP yet, Russia relations, Ossets want Union, Ossets rec Lugansk, TI wins foreign ag land case, bonus limits, illegal Dream cash, peace index, trafficking problems re labor inspector, new military strategy, new coast guard base, UNM guys beat up, Australia dumps homophobic soprano, new Ambo from Armo, Frontera says big gas find, construction fraud arrest, prescriptions for antibiotics, new Kiev flights, Russian Orth music, new EU Alumni chair, parking, La Blond on fake demo, Onnik on peace.

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TBLPOD19june2014

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Will’s back! Elections, Khajimba, Machavariani, Barroso fleeced, new German, drunk Interior video, Polish asylum offer to Vano, Freedom House, Rikoti landslide, Larsi reopened, president award shift plot, Georgians in Mosul, Kazakh’s split, shady Russian investors, Japanese medical equipment, Navarro Orthodoxizes, priest insults Armenian kid, Arabs kicked out of pool, worker deaths, Archeologist drug, new Kakheti mud resort, Tusheti land tenure, wine numbers, parliament out, Dato and the watermelon, more KazanTip, TBL turnout number.

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TBLPOD12june2014

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Giga Gigi yelled at, pre-election violence, Marneuli mess, UN IDP resolution, Osset elections, Turks in Abkhazia, Margvel and Biden in Kiev, piss cut protest, Barroso in Tbilisi, church protests evangelism and gender, soldiers to CAR, Vasiani training, coal mine fire, FDI numbers, Aldagi split, more golden arches, Khevsur road, good tax numbers, no consumer protection from parliament, Shevy people back, 23 year olds, Ajara money via TI, Pankisi Sufis

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TBLPOD5june2014

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Merkel MAP veto, Kremlin retires Ankvab, Obama billion for neighborhood Nato, opposition pressure, pictures on voter lists, Gardebani donnybrook, Gharibashvili says bad stuff in Guria, Swiss pres and Margvel re OSCE, Dariali & Roki work, more Sakdrisi drama, PM get goons for life, Misha spent more than Margvel, Police Day, job site fail, Beka is not a criminal re weed legalization, Evangelical’s prevented from meeting, Russians juice law, cigs and hooch up, schools back, prisoner release, Anaklia techno disagreement, food center Akhaltsikhe, gov listening to calls still, Misha on Poroshenko, TI on Co-investment fund, Glucksman, higher ed numbers, language exchange

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TBLPOD29may2014

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Ankvab booted, Chiaberishvili beaten, Gharibashvili signs, Kremlin consequences, Misha with Petro, Gigi back, Kez innocent not so bro, 87 mayors, kids on tanks, FOI drop, independent investigation entity, GoG salaries up, fruit safe to Russia, Kars rail moves, plane bodies return, Geo expat site, schools still closed, Telavi airport, FixMyStreet in Kutaisi Zugdidi, and Batumi, domestic violence deaths, Sochi Georgian concert, Svaneti UNESCO, constitutional commission update, mountain draft, easier docs for Geo expats, old photos, Portuguese book, who owns Tbl water, Siko on education, Blauvelt on Bolsheviks on Migrelians, cross shaped container building for priests

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TBLPOD22may2014

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Conchita, Dariali landslide, LGBT homophobes, elections, who signs EU deal, bonus cap plan, Italy Abkhaz twin revoked, GoG ticked at Maestro Sanaia show, GYLA election numbers, meningitis closes schools, bomb scares, new Coms Comish and Public Broadcaster leaders, Abkhaz FB & Tweets, 20% add limits, factory subsidy, Ukraine trade drop, Korean dam plan, Ajara flights, kids help tourists, black box key holder, defense numbers, Kviris Azrebi: don’t be a jerk, homophobes pummel each other, digital switchover, Tserovani, Lelo, UK singing

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TBLPOD8may2014

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Anti-discrimination passes, new virus, R2 spying, Shalva back, Gul visit, Kudua pummeled, PM ticked at NGOs for being NGOs, UNM not 5, NDI says Geo loves EU, Mikeladze questions, Füle tosses in 30 mil, Azeri double standard, Police Day shift, Krushovkas to go, 2008 movie party questions, up on Freedom of Press, Brussels event, Batumi medical U, church collapse, Zazantip festival from Crimea to Anaklia, Broadcasting Law change, Ninia on the church, NDI delegation, institutional trust, TI Georgia transparent, Azeri border issues, Iranian rockers, inflation, Eldar in Cannes, Europe Day.

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TBLPOD1may2014

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Church sticks up for the right and obligation to discriminate, Dream mayors named, Judo goon throws eggs in Kvareli, Small Biz Dev Agency starts, Kodua and Siradze of KUDI and SODI investigated, Okruashvili sends in friend, Jonjoli operation, DCFTA chat, obligatory car insurance, Mokalake media study, IDP houses, free land to Church on Agmashenabeli, Geo wine in Russia, Georgian-Indian deal, new cement factory in Poti, Crimea bound tourists come to Georgia, Germans fix books, Esquire on London’s Marani, Ajaruli dish of the week in DC, handgun regs, Baramidze & free speech bill, Tbilisi snobs, tons to read, huge foreign trade boost, and lots of photos in Tbilisi.

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TBLPOD10april2014

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Mark Mullen

New TBLPOD.com Database! Tatukhashvili info, Giga pulled in, Ukrainian spelling, fuel content, Usupashvili talks to NATO, UNM tires, SODI Kodua on Interpol list, Misha’s civic duty and Kiev reform center, prison mistreatment, Dima the Homophobe for Mayor with Kremlin affiliate, election group set up, Republicans 30 lari tip, Tamazishvili cash to Dream, new ambos, Dev Bank of Geo talk, 9 April planting, tax refunds, Justice House roof fixed, Rustavi Marshutka drivers ticked at Kaladze, Batumi Mosque drama & bus station, Melkisedek wish, swimming record, Tbilisi recycling, Oxbridge book scan plan, K&K foods worth traveling for, local election law, Roland Akhalaia up next, idiotic flower burning, health care poll, bullying, divorce, spa at water park, new novel

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TBLPOD

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Pamuk in Tbilisi, Crimea & 2008, UNM mayor primary, Bishop Gotsiridze bags US award, Fule in Tbilisi, more Russian barbed wire, Kvitsiani drama, another Vano conviction, French let Kez go, Aslan’s son back, US Human Rights Report, workers rights demo, Law bar mess, constitutional comission, dep culture min case, Guerrilla Gardeners & Studio Monitor re Vake Park restaurant, child poverty, drivers licenses to expire, Israel flights, trade up, Ajara honey to Turkey, inflation 3.5%, BI #270 -Forbes, cliff church, law to fire state employees, Margvel’s Dusheti office, de Waal, Rogin, Bokeria, TI re Post, basket number

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TBLPOD27feb2014

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Local elections 15 June, Ghari & Obama, Kiev Georgian sniper death, NATO MAP talk, Georgians to CAR, 1K pp EU doc in Georgian, EU Energy Community, Russian security zone stays, Bacho’s lawyer arrested, Vano boycotting, Gigi will run not sure where, Gigi suit, Paata speech, new ambos to Moldova and the Kingdom, Kvitsiani returns, miner strike, spa tourism, 81 tiny med centers, Bio, traffic safety, Red Army 1921, kvevris, St. Gabriel, Sioni dairy, 450K get cash, Kaduri criticizes, Egyptian $ in Kutaisi, GEL symbol vote, Eurovision, Rugby win, Greens leave Dream, Rati on dead, Persian rock, Givi Targamadze, Peter Baker, Sammut, Podesta, Durbin, Mathias’s suit, Adenauer book, remittences, Dunbar and Dworzak’s book, Kargi Gogo

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TBLPOD20feb2014

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Kiev, Sarkisi gold, Vano nickel , Grist back, Gov hits GeoCell, Geo Army to Congo, Bio death, thief-in-law used to quelled Geguti prison, Okruashvili runs in Gori, Gunava runs in Zugdidi, more Batumi mayor news, Narmania on Kutaisi mayor, new dep def min, bus and fire strikes, Strasbourg court cases down, new ag LEPL, GMO info, electrocution, IDP houses, digital switch, refinance rate hike, MCC school tender, BoG U, goofy tourism slogan, DC Embassy owns building, Sochi results, Dream bottle chucker, 50% threshold! Margvel parl tomorrow, leak law, Batum 1915, not much exercise, new London Georgian restaurant

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TBLPOD13feb2014

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Sochi, prison hunger strike, BI Vano comments, Burj on spring 2008, Bacho’s wife on threats, budget fail, dep culture min exit over mine, Shevy bent cop Saso Alavidze now chief water goon, US reps push for MAP, Iran Embassy says banks will defreeze, religion agency under Reconciliation min, BI doesn’t toast Ilia, gay men give blood, PM on UNM media, Margvel at Tserovani, Subari at Khudoni re hydro, Gori wind power, car inspection will be 48 Lari, a thousand plus aborted girls, fake meat inspection arrests, EU towel warning, electronic signatures, school age from 5 to 6, TLG only teachers, no India pre-visa, bazroba fire, wine museum, Orbeliani palace for PM, Populi Gegenava snafu, university 96th, Church claims Agmashenebeli, judo gold, ambo power to min from pres, Ninia on hatred, seat belts video, Vake park hotel, beer index, new Charkviani book, Misha op-ed on Putin, media freedom, WiP venue switch, Rejeb boats

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TBLPOD6feb2014

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Mark Mullen

BI’s NGO, PM on Russia, PM on corpses, Burj on war, Kez bracelet, vids to procs, more on prison punishments, Lefort exit, Georgians to Sochi, Russian release, the Osset Sardinia connection, Margvel to parl later, Khmaladze still on biometric thing, TBL budget hope, Misha at Fletcher, Khudoni chats, Justice hall to fall down, abandoned villages, rich coach, CIA threats: pol to econ, visitors up, in vitro law, local gov law passed, threshold problems, Georgian inventor, Trader Joe’s goes Georgian, Tedo on vision, Jehova’s in Ozurgeti, Goble’s blog, female MPs, Red Hen

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TBLPOD30jan2014

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Vano corpse chat vid, car inspection, Eko-Georgia lead milk, 26 May 2011 demo trial, dual NSCs, BI’s NGO, BI citizenship, BI gift exhibition, EBRD Tbilisi meeting 2015, GoG funds other churches, PM to Russian mag, translator pressured over Lapankuri, Shamanidi minority post, Vano wants lie detector, Kezereshvili extradition, KUDI case, city budget mess continues, Ukrainian solidarity, Pirveli EU dis, NATO says good job, Shalva gets 43 lari from EU court, Misha at Tufts, Georgia friend killed in Kabul, new vehicle prototype, Kaladze opens Larsi dam, digital switch update, foreign trade up, Iraqi beating, Fly Georgia no salaries, gondola up to Mtatsminda, McDonalds building nomination, Parliament and GBP, prisoners rights, local gov, Tbilisi, I love you, TI on Interior Min spies on state bodies, volunteers.

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TBLPOD9jan2013

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Mark Mullen

Nixon & Gamzakhurdia, Patriarch against some babies, prosecutor steps down, new exec parliament majority chats, Sakrebulo budget mess, PM says BI is dear, PM’s flats, Bigvava replaces Kandiashvili, Ossetians release Georgian, 87 pardons, Poti airport canceled, Russia simplified transit visas, Gigi’s mother in law’s flat, UNM folk demo re Vano & Gigi, Demitrov signs EU deal, Marvel on bag, Gio Kikvadze heads the mega fund, Stalin statues, mandaturi changes, TV3 says Gigi threatened, Public Broadcaster funds, parliament web hack, inflation, new lari symbol competition, one million for Ketevan, Guria Jehovas attacked, French say Georgia ok, Rough Guides say Georgia is top, tourist numbers up, no snow in Gudauri, moonshine deaths, Ilia 81, Amirejibi road, magnet man, constitution comission, questioning, liberty law, Mother Paraskeva

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TBLPOD26dec2013

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Mark Mullen

2013’s Best fight, quote, song, priest, practical joke, campaign slogan and protest! Ugulava demayored, Georgia residence issues, top proc German arrest, Girvliani MP questions, ZZ guard no bail, UNM back to parliament, Chiora v Beselia, prison hunger strike, Christmas paroles, Russian visas, BI Forbes chat, BI looses a B, Vere Palace protest, quick EU sigs, Reconciliation not Reintegration ministry, ADB infrastructure, discrimination draft, budget, pres salary, Misha on Ukraine no go list, Misha at Fletcher, Kakhi on gas price, IDP Batumi flats, UK visa TB test, bank complaints, 30 min WiFi limit, forest policy, New Year’s stuff.

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TBLPOD21nov2013

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Mark Mullen

Margvel pres, Gharibashvili with MPs, Israel visa free, Norland straight talk, Karasin says nothing, Identoba clarification, naughty hypocritical priest, new judges, Gvaramia and Khetaguri let off, Interpol on Adeishvili, loaded MP Dato Bezhuashvili leaves UNM, Zakaria replaced as Dream faction boss, Kaladze takes over Dream party, Misha gives out 400 passports, Misha “books not guns” Misha awards to Hillary, journos, Residence empty, Abashidze replaces Barnovi, RR strike, Subari talks Hep C, some idiots on the internet, more hydro, fake Abkhaz operation, Danelia blames Tkhemaladze, Chkhikvadze monument, Gurjaani tomb, winds in Samegrelo, Abasha rice experiment, visa changes, great Jones piece, Geo environment rank, Destination EU, recycling

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TBLPOD31oct2013

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Mark Mullen

Will & Mathias! Margvelashvili! GeoCell honest about GoG spying, Misha speech, new PM name, Margvel’s chief of staff, Imerlishvili to be Giga, Gamzakhurdia to be in Exile Abkhaz gov, EU & Vilnius, Bacho, governors resign, KUDI fake IDs, boring Gharibashvili report, Russian Telecom, heat to ABL folk, Genady goes, Misha Akhalkalaki fight, traffic fines, youth palace weapons, Giorgadze will arrive, parliament & Kutaisi, Margvel’s partner, Doing Business again.

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TBLPOD24oct2013

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Mark Mullen

One Homo genus, Gennady gone?, pres debates, BI & Margvel on 50%, KUDI detentions, Depardieu in Tbilisi, Zhvania death investigation, more Lapankuri investigation, drunk soldiers, BI leaves 24 Nov, ministers doing great, press election restrictions lifted, 3.5 million voters, Targamadze sues BI for calling him a traitor, pardons, prison deaths, expensive UNM gov cars, church gas, fake Rossner email, Bokeria to leave, Dream for Burj?, Gunava off, new 2008 refugee food discovery, BI’s ex-wife talks, Misha’s library, Misha moves, new pension system, Khudoni dam problems, drunk priest in fancy car, wine production up, new plates, Batumi floods, slavery

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TBLPOD17oct2013

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Mark Mullen

Kez gets Interpoled, BI on Sochi, Misha in Dvani, apples, Russians warm on Georgia, Gennady on lab, ag approved for Russia, Strasbourg cour’s late, Hammarberg’s told intolerance is a Georgian tradition, UNM freaks & walks over Tsulukiani, Batu bolts, no Geo vote in Russia, party $ #s, Orban gives Sabanadze asylum, Norland gets bracelet, Russian bikers in Mskheta, BI Bayrams, Ucha says don’t criticize Patriarch, Kremlin likes Misha not BI -Edik, Vano predicts trouble, Batumi rabble rousers, IMF downgrades, passports to Turks, BI on Armenian “other”, clutchless drivers tests, Prudential debates, Pres library, Baia leads Maestro TV, Goodwill problems blames UNM, whacky Rikhe building no $, March Moscow flights, Gandagana meme, spanking, Tbl jazz, Artisterium, Nov Tbi Startup Weekend.

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TBLPOD10oct2013

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Mark Mullen

Gogi Khutsishvili dies, Bacho tape, Misha still UNM chief, boycott Sochi, more barbed wire, Azeri presidential appointment, BI on Norland, new Bacho prosecutor, Lith MPs visit Vano in joint. BI meets with Muslims, Synod, CEC candidate numbers, Rosner’s numbers, GYLA, ISFED, Marvel and Mir, Burj’s program, Burj tax problems, Parliament builder arrested, Kutaisi mayor on vacation, more Kremlin wine BS via Genady, floods, GPB pressure, EU numbers, Georgia third friendliest,
Poti closed, Intercon in Ajara, Subway in Tbilisi, Cops Karate champs.

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TBLPOD26sept2013

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Mark Mullen

CRRC/NDI #’s: Jobs #1, more Osset barbed wire, Hammarberg report, Misha & Obama, Burj financial issues, Smirba got a plan, Lakayev extradition, lots of little presidents, Margvel program launch, Kbilashvili in Moscow, Vano MEP visit, Bacho on prosecutors, Bacho’s wife’s video, Sabanadze (34 million) Chkhitunidze, Melnikov extradtions, Levan Pirveli’s back! Immoral behavior & physiological needs, Kakabadze manifests metaphor, 1000 Lari Kakheti vouchers, Huter ag suit, Misha mayor, Sokhumi off plane, Lesotho Ambassador, floods in Mestia and Kakheti, Girvliani’s mom’s statue, Tamaz Tkemaladze wants TV show, Rachveli conductor quits, Export Development Agency, ISET say GeoStat numbers good, more sanitary inspectors, In Bloom award, Margvel on Stalin, Tourism guy on Azeris and Jews, Kutaisi-Vilnius, constitution, inventions, Zero tolerance schooling, old people %.

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