TBLPOD9feb2017

Visa free for Abkhaz and Osset Geo passport holders, Court about to decide wether to silence Rustavi 2 special clip, OSCE chair in town Janelidze DC trip, Tibilov furthers Alaniazation, Russian troops in S Ossetia inspected, Batumi Gulen school shut down because Erdogan said so, Maglaperidze kills Public Broadcaster, Kobakhidze on Constitutional Court, Ugulava interview, trans murderer gets 13 years, trans attack in nightclub, Imedi consolidates control of news, Azoti strike, Russian abduction, inflation 4, new hotels, labor problems at Fresco, Geo wine in France, Riga tourism, Glurjidze movie new heights, Rachvelishvili award, veto override judicial law, pedestrians, Muradashvili on Rustavi 2, Navarro on Misha

TBLPOD2feb2017

EU Parliament OKs visa free travel, Borjomi Bishop solicits fifteen year old, Ukraine releases Tsertsvadze, Misha split off now called Movement for Freedom European Georgia, Pres pardons innocent Def Min employees, CoE guy in town, Kaladze says Enguri will close for rehab, Congo chopper crash, Abashidze says no Russian diplomatic relations, drunk cops arrested, Vagzal fire, Gali protests border closures, Def Min protests re firings, Russian soldiers kidnap Gali man, more new blue airport busses, new Batumi bypass, Sachkhere fish, Beeline contract, rental cars, steep chacha, new Lelo shirts, Jr Eurovision, Paris models, idiotic surveillance draft, migrant numbers

TBLPOD26jan2017

Misha has party congress, Gov defends Gazprom deal, Russia tries to extradite Georgian from Ukraine gov leaked info to Russia, Womens March Tbilisi, yikes Kobakhidze to Constitutional Court, new Nationals want to observe EPP, Vano leaves parties, Kordzaia number 2 in Republicans, PACE talks about media, EU program on EU, EBRD to go to 300 mil Euro, 34 villages to get shuki and gas, interest rates up 25, ISET on prices, bank deposit numbers, more PAULs, Aerosmith tickets, broadcasting law, court law veto by Margvel, Green faction, Lomsadze in Coda, Ebert on youth, DeWaal on Karabakh war, TI Corruption Perception Index out Georgia does great, 1st Republic book, Izoria in Scandinavia

TBLPOD12jan2017

Ugulava unchained, Surveillance group, Grechikha’s kid hits Gvaramia, Vasiko heads Public Broadcaster, Kaladze says cash for Gazprom, Janelidze Turkey Iran, Russians destroy Abkhaz church, GDS shuts down politics, cops pull Girchi weed, EU worries about overstays, Spanish raid Georgian criminals, ABL abduction, Racha Oni park, Italians oversee road, EBRD dam, factories, Fab Labs, helicopter skiing, World Youth Rugby Championship in Georgia, Zaza gets all star votes, Lariazation plan passes, creepy Tovlis Babu video, Kalandadze interviews Damon Wilson, Boyz II Men, Burns Night

TBLPOD26may2016

National leaders beat up in Samegrelo, Abkhaz guard shoots Gali man, Otsneba relieved as Mechiauri leaves, renewed student conflicts over Student Gov at TSU, Zika goes north, Lari up as Bank spends yet more dollars, rally on unjust sentencing in Cables Case, Beselia lies to Venice Commission on Constitutional Court case, 4 abducted on ABL, Bollywood in Mestia, OSCE monitors, Georgians in NATO response force, Poti cop Beselia relative arrested, Margvel in Istanbul and Warsaw, more Geo wine in China, media monitoring, EU food safety cash, Iran flights, oil plant in Kulevi, elevator factory in Kutaisi, giant Batumi hotel, Tech institute, Misha R2 interview, Shekvetili venue, livestock security points, Defense Conference, Gogol, Bourdain, hipster barber shop, Jordania, new Dive

TBLPOD19may2016

World Congress of Families, Ministry of Defense procurement Alasania guys found guilty, proportional majoritarians bill from Republicans, Otsneba party congress, National list, China free trade, more Lari support, NATO says chill, Tiniko in Baku, PM in Greece, Narmania yelled at re land sale, Vienna meeting re NK, Burchaladze gets Metreveli, Shindisi movie on Aug war, prisoner hunger strike, Shalva Ramishvili tape, Delta chief fired, hail, Geo on World Rugby Council, 14 parties with CEC, Slafist speaks in Tbilisi, student housing, Morocco consulate, EBRD gas busses, border security, Heidelberg cement invests in Kaspi, Krakow photos, judo and sambo, tons of Batumi flights, City Library project, Rowling tweet, no tax on reinvested profits passes, GoG takeover of Constitutional Court, priest and cop kissing, Sameba fire cash

TBLPOD12may2016

NATO exercises, Mechiauri cranky, pre election period starts 8 June, CEC bonuses, Armaz out, PaNOrama protest, Indian film in Svaneti, Auditorium 115 sue TSU, national marriage push, Hualing investing, Hungary stuff, Victory day and Stalin, Alasania and the def min employees case, Chief Proc says no sex tape charges so far, Le Pen and W may come for World Congress of Families to celebrate bigotry, Zguladze resigns in Kiev, Janelidze and Lavrov may meet, senior Israeli cop bribed Kezerashvili, Larsi landslide protection, Tiniko on 2030, Spanish food, new UK Ambo named, kids basketball, Invictus games, gas busses, Korea Mirza Library, HIV in school book, cleaning fee for all Tbilisians, thief Galski detained in Moscow, mosquito spray, Anaklia partners, Kardava awards for photos, Annas Life film award in BA, Bahrain flights, art in London, Lang on Geo skiing, Seedstart start up awards, Young Georgian Lolitaz, anti tolerance marriage law advances, judge shifting, Jonas on PaNOrama, road accident deaths

TBLPOD24march2016

Bank buys big bucks, more Karasin BS, Kardava in Brussels, TSU Papava mess, Beselia and Kobakhidze get off, Sagarego case closed, This Affects You demo, Malmstrom, Breedlove, PM in Belarus, Usupash sees Saudi King, Estonian tax deal starts Jan, Interpol drops Akhalaia, Sokhumi lets Incident group resume, crude tappers nabbed, Maestro logo, girl pre cadets, electoral working group, S Osset embassy in Rome, no BI on list says Kakhi, Batumi tower, Kargaretili goes green, Jacobs U win, Nowruz, film awards, Sameba fire, French billionaire, miner problems again, Lost in Karastan plough cards, Lelos v Pacifics, soldiers to AfPac, Art Palace, Rosslyn khajapuri, wool to EU, Otsneba man woman marriage law, BI tree on ship, Sukhishvilebi with Savchenko, Rimple on stolovaya, MOMA

TBLPOD24dec2015

Gharibashvili resigns, visa free to EU, new NDI/CRRC numbers, more pardons drama, Partnership Fund to China, regional energy group, Tiniko and Pole DM, Manat drop, East West Gas Pipeline, Bollywood update, Star Wars Shengelaia Healing Twins, OSCE parliamentary assembly in Tbl July, volunteer army call, Millennium Challenge fixes schools, KfW Batumi water, cop killer sentenced, ABL abduction, chess champ Batsiashvili dominates, Kakheti dig 11th cent BC, Dream guy bit ear off, Vasadze on traditional values, Sputnik bs, Greed group, Martkopi food factories, tree laws, Enukidze gets medal, Annas Life Movie in Sweden, taxi driver search, Shkhara flood, dream rugby, prisoner singer released, constituencies change, Kargi Gogo goes goes

TBLPOD17dec2015

Kobakhidze and Beselia questioned re pardons for cash, VLAP delay, Putin says visa movement, Geo China trade talks, train containers move, Misha Avakov yell on camera, Sanakoyev talks Daesh, Margvel in Ashgabad, Poker to Tbilisi, French air defense deal, two US choppers, Korea and Austrian embassy, rate up .5, UNM guys charged, Nuka Miss World designee, EBRD gas busses, four bodies found on Turk border, Bitcoin mine opens, Geo coke captain detained in France, Pushkin overpass, Econ min closed, UK program, mountain pensions, Tbilisi health programs, City employee bribery arrest, new Gudauri, Lolitaz to Eurovision, Bolnisi German museum, Givi Margvelashvili award, excise up, election districts, no pants on subway

TBLPOD10dec2015

Patriarch pardon talk, pardon influence scandal, Die Welt says visa free for Ukraine and Georgia in 2016, Russian chopper in Geo airspace, shots fired into Nationals office in Kakheti, China free trade talks start, Kazakhs sell Batumi terminal, Georgian last playboy, Kaladze meet Miller again, PM in Bulgaria, Tiniko in DC CSIS, Georgians in Turkish prisons, Georgian fighter killed in Ukraine, right hand drive car ban, Margvel and Misha’s presidency, Beruchashvili as UK Ambo, Gardebani gamgebeli, Khaindrava complains of Otsneba informal decisions, Alasania: bring in the Germans, inflation, Russian ABL kidnapping, Leyla Yunis released in Baku, forex up, FDI up, Saguramo hydro, World Bank road safety, electricity transit task forces, Greek Abkhaz snafu, married 13 year old, worker dies in Kobuleti, FB fraud arrest, ProCredit and Liberty ATM link, Interpol turk nabbed at airport, judo, soprano, IDP building, dancing videos

TBLPOD27nov2014

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

TBLPOD23oct2014

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

TBLPOD2oct2014

Kist killed in Syria, Patriarch cut radio slack, says TI, Asaval-Dasavali donnybrook, ex-mayor employees threatened to quit, PACE stuff, Zhvania to be exhumed, Janashia’s family hit, Khajimba picks Butba as PM, PM at UN, PM thanks BI, Margel in Istanbul, new app TravelGIS, Geo high media freedom but worst place to live in Europe, EU’s Hahn speaks, Geo NATO Lahiu speaks, Georgian ok in Turkey schools, Deltas to Saudi, Kist stabs sister, hunger strike in Kutaisi, noise bill, IFC funds dairy, new Bolnisi dig, 6K bc. wine to China, west rain, Georgian films to Georgia from Russia, Kutaisi gas explosion, Kutaisi Budapest flights, Corn Island movie wins another award, Margvel reappoints, Beselia’s English, Photo Festival, Doc Fest

TBLPOD31july2014

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

TBLPOD24july2014

Cabinet Shuffle, ErosiGate, Mayors 2 Aug, Abkhaz abroad vote, Bacho bro in law, Three Internat prosecutors show up, Kurdi gang visit, pensions won’t go up, bus driver dead, Armenian church donnybrook, priest against KazanTip, wine museum, rare vine project, new air traffic control, Russia to punish Georgia for DCFTA, lots of card carriers, 2K old palace in Kareli, Afgan rotation, Homophobe singer repents, English speaking cab drivers, Georigan kids rack up Informatics award, River Island leaves, Margvel shows up for ratification, Sabina Chantouria in Vake Sat.

TBLPOD26dec2013

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.

28nov2013

Forum: Jail Shevy, yay rice! Georgia EU Bound via Vilnius, Mayor Narmania, English BI letter, Dream congress, proc and int shuffle, Irina NSC, Vano Machavariani Margvel internat guy, Zakro continues to get fired, Green MP bolts maj, new ambos, NGO types in pardon comish, more Russian concertina, Chechens Georgia & Syria, Swiss visas, Norland opens school, Lekishvili wants in, Zakareishvili religion council, Ajara citrus north, Tbl poor travel cheap, president.gov.ge cleaned of Misha, UNESCO honors Akaki, Giorgoba, knife law, Germany in Pshavi, IDP change, historical building status change, Misha by piano, prison numbers, Royal Sails.

TBLPOD22aug2013

TV 9 Deep Sixed, Maestro Imedi flight, Kist fight, Misha on Imedi Closure: Giorgi did it, more Bacho, Girvliani guy beat up in Athens, Misha’s amnesty plan, former prison ministers called, destruction of tapes delayed, Papava heads TSU, Nice: Okruashvili beats up MP, Tajik journalist detained in Tbilisi, Koba & Kartlos run, Kako homeless, Chancelery sidewalk parkers, Ureki rains, Rustavi movie fire, Batumi parking fines, life on 145 Lari a month, 22.1% Av interest rate, Bera starts summer.

TBLPOD1aug2013

Aslan’s back, Bakradze’s UNM’s guy, Margvel: “no one on one debate”, new IDP count, Georgian’s abroad must register for elections, DCFTA in the bag, no parliament bomb (thanks Omar), more Stalin statue drama, veto overrides, Kvirikashvili in deputy PM job, Sanikidze new Ed Min down sizes Dato Zurabishvili, BI’s money, Bedukadze drama, Imedi on virginity certificates, Gegenava destroys plants on his ill gotten plot, prison protests, Zestaponi demos over corrupt archbishop, Iranian arrest, Rice advice?, Hill Hill to rep UK, 140mil US for ed from MCC, WB 60mil, truck regulation, Tbilisi Sakrebulo changes, city hall admissions, Pres may be in Orbeliani Palace on Atoneli, floods, Ukraine flights, new trains to Batumi, parliament, EU confidence number, Lexo’s finger.

TBLPOD18july2013

Handgun control, Margvel out of Ed Min, Lasha Tughushi says more videos, Centrepoint arrests, Mikautadze report, presidential candidates, Burchuladze says no, NDI numbers, Irakli Chikovani resigns from Coms Comish, new NATO guy, Fule signs border guard deal, Tata talks, EBRD plans, prisons become nicer, Alasania on Sochi security, new uniforms, water park fire, CNN blogs bizarre arrests, new Tbl Sak faction, Gennady on hooch & pigs, passports, Gunava sentenced, US extradition, Israeli consul strike, Martvili park, Batumi guide, RR WiFi, hydrocarbon appointment veto override, 17 May report, e-law, Georigan dance, Wizz Air

TBLPOD4july2013

Bye Iranians, Pres vote 27 Oct, City Fund arrests….or witnesses, Tbl sakrebulo no longer UNM, 60% prisoner decrease, Data charged, prisoner hunger strike, IRI numbers on people liking Otsneba Ag work, Vano Chkhartishvili resurfaces with media interests, school principal raises, health insurance up, Depardieu in Abkhazia, German KGB spies, US House on arrests, TI property case, attacks on Muslims in Kakheti (still), very old tomb in Ananuri found, don’t drink and drive, speed limits upped (?!), Real TV guy has new station, Davitashvili against violence (?!) and Brazil on TV, more movie theaters in regions, Tbl Athens on Pegasus, Kutaisi to Kharkiv on Wizz Air, force majure funds, Ag land changes, BBC, atheist politicians, Arab food in Mtatsminda

TBLPOD27june2013

Fertilizer, UNM in Stras, more torture vids, Eliso: “media controlled by us”, WSJ on Iranians, UNM primaries, BI tells Estonians he’s bolting, Nodia scenarios, Israel, Zhorzholiani impeaches Misha, fifth Girvliani guy, Kudi guy leaves module with stuff, Procuracy out of Justice Min, Ukraine consul downgrade, more sakrebulo $, Saburtalo sak to Antalya, R2 PS apology, MFA BS on foreign students, Beeline share cash in, Svaneti robbery, Georigan psychic in Philly, more Stalin statue drama, slight cig excise boost, new Zug meals, mystery environment priorities, census soon, Beselia LGBT dust up, Higher ed law mess, Zemfira flag

TBLPOD20june2013

Blue barrels of bombs and lists, prison guards imprisoned, tax call center, Abkhaz border probs, video destruction, Venice slam, Bakradze on UNM pres, Tbl Sakrebulo flight, UNM Pole bolts, High Council election, Alasania ups death payment, Vano’s TV, Chechens arrested, ag loan mess, dual citizens, Batumi mayor, TenderMonitor.ge, Kutaisi Nigerian, UNESCO boots Bagrati, Patriarch wants frequency, Basil anti-Jehova. Microsoft on piracy, Funicular restaurant opens, Yerevan train, human chain re higher ed law, Viennese Taburetka, Beselia on human rights, fertilizer

TBLPOD28feb2013

Tata tea, BI to Mish: back off, Misha on Kremlin & banks then sorry, Gigi & courts, ex Sport Min gun accident, Mish drives to fly, Misha TV interview, Vano Tbl dep mayor, three judges to go, prosecutors chat with Burj, Tsulukiani Vashadze and passports, Tsulukiani in DC, Usupashvili to Misha: chill, no text from Strasbourg, Sanaia reopened, Ortachala prison closes, Narmania local gov reform, DCFTA dates, EU cash up US down with EPI ending, Shalva’ll run! No PM palace, Didube fire, Rugby win, trash dump problem, more constitutional changes, Koba gambling ban bill, work and imagination stats, Lincoln & Argo

TBLPOD7feb2013

Save TLG, the 100 day press conference, parliament drama, Vano subverts state, constitution, more tapes crime and surveillance, city council, Natelashvili and Targamadze exits, cop killing, Gubaz goes his own way, Chugo with BI, Javakh stuff, stolen cars, Genady & wine, TBC in Marshutka biz, new Ambos, Salome Zurabishvili worries about Chinese, Korean protest, Pink Koba, Kareli back, free Matsne! Tamar year, cheap flights, deflation lesson, Valentines events

TBLPOD24jan2013

Reitingi botch, Alasania removal, Strasbourg occupation, Kvilashvili sounds off, Bedukadze out, Khukhashvili holding court, Vashakidze bolts, Khaduri Vano debate off, Misha now doesn’t want tax crimes, Shavi Shota back, shukiless restaurant in Tskhaltubo, Khaburdzania ends silence, Ded Hasan corps logistics, Kakheti flood cash, Tbl IDP apts, Genady Onishenko risks visit to Tbilisi, Misha protests, Abkhaz checkpoints, police ethics code, cash or Zviad’s Manana, Okruashvili on Zhvania, Labor code, Otsneba congress Feb, budget mess, Ilia & Kirill, Sagharadze passes, Pasha Bank, City cash, ed cash, Centre Point, Chinese, Tiflis Russian mag

TBLPOD17jan2013

Amnesty releases, gay videos, ag plot privatization suspended, Okruashvili out, UNM governors, constitutional amendments, Misha & BI with Ilia, Jazz kid bullied, ex-tax bosses and Cartu, Kaladze & Kakheti shuki, Bedukadze off interpol list, Edik says Misha’s trouble, Vano charges budget mess, MPs Karabakh & Panjikidze, Rezo Amashukeli’s genius, Mestia notary, new Ag loans, Chinese compound at Tbilisi Sea, Russia Georgia trucks, Georgian Water & Power yelled at, Ajara TV, Misha’s reserve Fund & Centre Point, poetry translated, gambling advertising, work first

TBLPOD29nov2012

Stalin, Ashton, Post pissed, Girvliani & Zhvania open, Strasbourg movement, Chip IDs optional, crime, price of Misha, Martvili, La Figaro Kobakhidze & gayness, Tiniko GYLA board, Givi investigations, TV tax breaks, more KUDI & SODI, Tetradze open, photographer’s lawyers, 6500 to be released, Luba for Bekauri, Niazov’s heart & Kurtanidze, Murkhrovani guys, Ako called, IFOR numbers up, Gali orgs, new BI fund, flag BS, Zezerashvili, new Shevy RR guy, Parliament re-owns parliament, Swiss IDPs, Fady says no FDI, Sturua back, dam probs, more Nigvziani, pushups, Fiji rugby, pushups, Irish movies.

TBLPOD22nov2012

Arrests & pardons, KUDI, Nana Kakabadze, Buddah Bar, BI’s Fund, BI not Geo citizen, stupid buildings, miners, Zugdidi vendors, Misha in Italy, South Stream, photographer non-spies, SouthStream, sailors in Panama, Osset hit, no more receipt lotto, new Korea Ambo, Gabashvili back from Italy, new comedy, metro losses, art kids ticked, damn dam, EUMM docs, parliament O2, fixing post, Dart Chimp, De Waal, Sturua back, Batumi Istanbul cheap, Borjomi north, carrots.

TBLPOD18oct2012

More ministers! Kakhi’s Energy, Bidzina’s got a passport & is PM, Darakhvelidze says Georgia for Georgians (oh, great), Margvelashvili Education, revote GD landslides, Badri’s wife gets Imedi, Fin Min UNM gift to Rustavi 2 and Imedi, no tower cash, Tabula TV, Kezerashvili sells Rustavi 2 after three days, Vano Chkhartishvili’s back, PIK protest, earthquakes, Abkhaz side, Tbl Dev Fund gone, diplomatic passports still work, Zugdidi sakrebulo, Vano Sec Gen, miners strike, prisoner amnesty, Liberty heist, Gudauri leaves Tblisi, garbage, Fule and Schmid in town, girls.