Archpriest Mamaladze gets 9 years in secret trial, fires continue, Korea visit, US Marines exercises, 3 Georgians injured in Afghanistan, Venice hopes for constitution, Vashadze in Tbilisi mayor candidate, European Georgia in center right EPP, Freedom House report on Abkhazia and South Ossetia, government BS on Turkish Batumi school, Railways hunger strike ends, stricter citizenship rules, EBRD chief visits, Formula 1 driver Zoe Whittaker does stuff in Georgia, 52 tourists rescued, Janelidze and Tbilisoba in Minsk, Pachulia leads Georgia win over Israel, Parliament talks IDAHO day, Kobakhidze kissing to Americano, CRRC data journalism prize, book launches
Tag Archives: Ilia II
TBLPOD3aug2017
Pence in Tbilisi, Mishas passport, Abkhaz say Georgians can be Abkhaz, South Ossetia purges Georgianess from curriculum, Putin to Abkhazia in August, Otsneba just behind None of the Above in polls, Aleko wants to ditch CT Park, BoG keeps Transport funds, Anaklia goes with US operator, fire at Rustavi 2, slap on wrist for illegal logging in Kakheti, Ajara dig finds artifacts, Enguri tourism planned, Bordeaux museum features Georgia, China wine import grows, Anna Dolidze Kobakhidze snarkathon, Concrete and Kitch, Cocktails and Dog tails
TBLPOD27july2017
Poroshenko yanks Mishas passport, Anti Kremlin pro diversity rally, new Patriarch Sno hotel, Prime Minister hints dividing church and state is non Georgian, President vetos Otsneba control of election commission and preventing direct mayor elections, UK human rights report, civilian patrol of ABL, PM meets Bibi, Tbilisi mayor race stuff, NDI says polarization, Georgians ship themselves to the Main, ProCredit investment, visa free numbers in and overstays are not giant, more European court judge stuff, Kutaisi airport takes off, Tbilisi airport Taxi mess, new Scenar clinic, foreign Saperavi competition, dog stuff, parks, Bassiani award, Rustavi MP check ups, MEPs say not much on membership, Tbilisi bad on green space 12 not 25 sq Ms per head, Azeri activist deportations, splash party
TBLPOD24nov2016
PM announces cabinet, Gov says they will fix Avar FGM, Brink in town, Ilia II in Moscow, McCain and Lindsey Graham will visit in Jan on Dont Worry About Trump tour, Margvel says he will fight changing directly elected president, Varsh steps down in Batumi, Karasin says up yours, Chachibaia new top general, Broadcaster and Border Police chiefs step down, Transgender day of remembrance, peacekeepers monument at Krtsanisi, campaign finance numbers, parties to be funded up to twenty, Israel sick of fake asylum seekers, winds, Luftansa strike, Narmania helps cars, Omsbudsman tells Vake pool let women swim, trade up, WB says grown up, Pharmadepot bought, Kiev flights, Lelos beat Samoa, Bidzina sells de Kooning, new Chokhatauri Art Palace, Jr Eurovision win, Will on spas
TBLPOD17nov2016
Misha leaves Odessa starts national party in Ukraine feuds with Bokeria and thinks Trump is smart, Mogherini wants Geo EU visaless, Izoria has an army plan, Georgians protect Germans from Taliban, final CEC numbers, Avar female genital mutilation, Putin wants to subsume Armenian army, NATO exercises, Kumsishvili meets OPIC boss, Patriarch to Russia for birthday party, Kremlin sponsored demos in Kiev, Dekanoidze resigns as Ukraine police chief, Geo for UN tourism spot, Gubaz leaves Forum, Diaspora ministry goes GYLA mad, EU NATO church talks succeed, Petriahsvili attacker sentenced, Tabula TV hiatus, UN livestock deal, lari dive, Trump Tower Batumi and Silk Road Group, 126 new enterprises, gas pipeline, Brandy in Gremi, Double B on Galaktioni, Aerosmith, Annas Life, GeoCapital video
TBLPOD10nov2016
Mish leaves Odessa, draft back, Sandra out, Trump, Karasin on visas, NATO exercise, Burchaladzes party exits, PM mets Serzh chats with Biden, German Def Min says EU Army, Pankisi volunteer killed, Zugdidi arrest, three Chinese arrested, German dies in Svaneti, car inspection in a year, Batumi Iliachevsk back, H and M in Galaria, wine export up, Ajara factory, Chinese Kutaisi metal plant, Italian salon leaves, Food Panda, olives, ads down, movie school, theater awards, Kobakhidze speaker maybe, Beselia legal committee, Avar female genital mutilation, Vogue Tbilisi streets, EAAG podcast, 44 ships, Abkhaz residency, McClain party, Japan rugby, Radarami Oil and Honey, new Metro map
TBLPOD6oct2016
Pope visit, Givis car blown up, pre election incidents, Nat rally, predictions, visa lib pre new year, China memo re free trade, const court strikes down second strike law for weed, new head of state security council, US educated Armenian def min, US boats to coast guard, Almaty airport mercury, new cop tech, Vazha metro closure, Zugdidi Tech Park opens, Batumi sports palace, IMF predictions, Tourism Development Fund, Chinese train factory, Anaklia port, wind power starts in Gori, Kutaisi textile, French fashion, tourism up, first whiskey, draft budget, Hans numbers, DCFTA, political money from TI, Rimple on cheese, car numbers, MitOst, Bugiani
TBLPOD29sept2016
Free Zone drama, Gigi the revolutionary, Pine Cones out, Misha Zugdidi video, Vano convicted again, top Odessa cop convicted, Auditorium 115 back, Pope soon no Ilia prayer, new Afghan deployment, Georgian Power demo mess, PM with Biz, Otsneba DC lobbyists, BI scolds Biz, Lithuania says speed visa free, Nuaru in South Ossetia, Dutch say Russia bombed flight, ABL abductions, all salons register re hep C, Radio Marneuli, illegal slot machines, Liberty Bank Gldani robbed, Gamgebeli punches journo, bone marrow, ebooks for kids, Kobuleti landslide, Impact Hub in Faberika, Car Free Day, Anaklia, Georgia 59 in Davos rank, Cement injection, Borjomi hotel, WizzAir in Kutaisi, Iran freight, Saba Lit Prize, Andorra up, Asly, Toastmasters, REGISTER, GET BALLOT, VOTE
TBLPOD22sept2016
Message from Dunbar, vote in US elections, new Const Court guy, new charges on KUDI guys, Kobuleti Muslims win, PM at UN in NYC, OSCE PMs arrive, Estonians in town, Otsneba cash, Paata pissed at BI, Usupashvili criticizes BI, Misha on univ student fees, peace memorandum, 56 overseas voting places, Abkhaz Chirkba resigns, Orthodox Parents Goons angry at Pope, Russian journalist moves to Tbilisi, Austria opens embassy, Kakheti gov, Cadets girls scholarship, ABL abduction, bank robbers caught, Batumi rain, GDP 8 bil, Gori wind farm, BoG & EBRD loans towards EU, Telasi guy now Armo min, Odessa flights, hazel nuts, Danish IKEA comes, football fixing Turkish Batumi school, Lisi path, Pilarmonia Muse sculptor died and vote
TBLPOD23june2016
Brexit, Gazprom deal, NDI, BI looses half bil in tax dodge gone wrong, visa lib will happen say FMs, US dem brass in town, Vano was moved say court, Civil Av guy gets cash, Russia case, Erosi suicide says probe, Patriarchs in Cyprus Ilia and Kirill stay home, new ambos, R2 airport brawl, lari up, IDP Min bribe charge, left bank blast, Agro info, kurdi arrested, Rome Abkhaz office, EBRD bonds, Papashvili says stop Tbl building, IDP houses, pool finished, house for sick kids, Ganmakhuri garden, Jr Lelos win, ballerina dies, Father’s Day, Oxford on early Georgian church, more Batumi flights, young flood volunteer doc, Cannes ad win, more party ads, jury trials expand, sidewalk parking
TBLPOD16june2016
Dunbar! R2! Still EU visas! Vano gets Euros, flood BD, 3.5 mil voters says CEC, NATO chickenpox, homophobia referendum, PM in Berlin, Geneva talks, Russian abduction, BI painting and Ganmukhuri hotel, Ilia pulls church out of Cyprus powwow, Sokhumi mayor criticizes Russia, NB cuts to 7, FDI up, Delta Saudi deal, Kazakhs forgive debt, Urumqi, German biz, K St deal, Armo McDs, Aspindza bribes, 214 kg coke, Batumi death, Satekhia food sickness, Tskhneti cliff falls on road, kinder-protest, Three Sisters Chekov, Lordkipanidze, wrestlers beat US for bronze, Beselia bill on not employing UNM, Brutalist BOG
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
TBLPOD5may2016
Partnership Fund buys chunk of Tbilisi for BI, Vashadze leaves Nationals, World Congress of Families get ready for Pilarmonia gig, Nat Bank buys more dollars, voter lists, IRI numbers, Otsneba and Margvel argue on court nominees, Nationals say biz folk forced to pay for Check in Georgia, Geo killed in Ukraine, ABL abduction, deserted villages, CoE rapporteurs, Hahn on visas, bike paths Mziuri, Geo OGP chair, start up funding, animals for Zoo, cop kills sheep fines shepherd, Tokyo Rope invests, workplace deaths, Nobel Partner, MoD stops food imports, no vote on Kosova UEFA, Khardziani arrests, sumo in Tbilisi, fencing win, EU culture cash, Gaprindashvili award, film directors everywhere, three new factories, bit more East West hwy, Geo wine in Paris, Emirates tourists, inflation drop, USAID IDP housing, Rustaveli in Korean, Kasakh flight, femicide draft, same sex marriage bs, Bloss at Frontline
TBLPOD7jan2015
Iran gas, Free Dem dep FM, Nat Bank Chair search, Gardabani gam candidates, New Year’s Eve, snow, Merkel note to Kvirik, Russian SO abduction, Ponichala Wakabi critic killed, Austrian shell companies, Geo scrum half, snow border death, Abastumani investment, Ali and Nino at Sundance, Hard Rock Cafe in Vera, Netflix, Lilo homeless shelter, Chinese tourist plan, EU on waste, Narmania says strike fails, Wine export down, French Tamar novel, Ananiashvili Telegraph tops, Roman piece, child law, Marat on Ukraine cops, Rooms in NYT, London events
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
TBLPOD5nov2015
Rustavi 2 court decision, shut down by government, Constitutional Court ignored, immediately tries to change editorial direction, Misha calls, by-elections Sagarejo close Patriotebi close to Otsneba, PM in Estonia asked about Rustavi 2, Kvirikashvili in DC, Ilham in town, sidewalk holes, Dekanoidze leads Ukraine cops, Vasadze brings Christian homophobes to Tbilisi, Misha stripped of citizenship, MEPs Knesset OSCE permanent reps in town, National Bank put rates up half percent, EBRD Investors Council, Fady angry, cops indicted, two portfolios over? Partnership Fund and Chinese fund textiles, half Armenians want to join Russia, Abkhaz RR, new cash, Polish cement, drug visit, beard guy kept out, Japanese hacked, Khevsur road, Louisiana piano win, Lelos, films, foreign workers must be registered, Miley Cyrus wreck, Vice on ABL, “it” girls, IMF says high growth.
TBLPOD2july2015
Flood stuff, Khaduri in China signs AIIB, Pankisi ISIS fighter death, Ilia not with US Supreme Court, Kvitashvili out? biletebi.ge mess, Tamriko in Minsk, Swedes buy Europe-bet, Nat Bank ups rates, Econ Min gone, RR cargo sale, Austrian embassies, NATO stuff, IPRM talks canal cleaning, Russia stops inmate transfer, Kelly US Ambo confirmed, Rustaveli Airport, Rustavi steel fired people, Interpol pick-ups, no Abkhaz visas, Gonio development, Old Town hotel, US Navy ship in Batumi, TSU and Trinity in Dublin, Kvevri House, financial supervisory authority bill passed first reading, Greece remittances.
TBLPOD18june2015
Flood, Tigers, Pankisi arrest, French air defense deal, Zguladze launches new Ukraine cops, Chinese buy Gardabani plant, US small dam fund, Russian army exercise in Java, Bulgaria pres visits, digital switch delay, shepherd found Khevsureti, soccer announcer fired, 226 pardons, Georgian movie in Myanmar, book corner in NYC and Barcelona, law passed on traveling for terrorism, juvenile prisoner law, split of security and interior, NYT on tone, John Oliver on Azerbaijan games and human rights, Russian tourists, UCL flood help
TBLPOD28may2015
Government wants to oversee (control) banks, 4 UNM guys bolt, Independence Day stuff, DCFTA facility, no budget cut, Ucha kicks butt, Tsulukiani in Ukraine, high-rises behind baths, Ossetia abductions, Ankvab heart work in Tbilisi, WB projects, Batumi protests, China and Israel investment, Swiss say no refugee jobs, EBRD SMEs, sick sheep, Yerevan to Batumi train, MFA brings 75 internationals to look at the ABL, counterfeit kid, fuel price up, UN intellectual property, olympic youth flame, Lelo kids win, IDP photos UN NYC, new leopards, Napoleon death mask Tbilisshi, Const court says fix parliament set up, Georgians to Africa with EU, judges over site wrangling, Google Georgian independence day, Ian Kelly testimony, Surami bread ladies, Burns on film, happy unemployment numbers, Book Festival
TBLPOD7and14may2015
Tiniko DefMin, NDI numbers, EBRD, cabinet shuffle, Pillsbury for GoG, Armos and Ossets in Karabakh, EU charm trips, CoE wants into ABL, US materiel, Interior reforms, Moldova Ukraine Geo parl chat shop, Poti strike, inflation, Gali kid death for not paying bribe, Rezo Chkheidze died, Chiatura demos, US puts 5 million on Batirashvili of ISIS, consulate in West Jerusalem, wine to China, Kharagauli football game fixing, fuel hike, importing Russian sheep, Tbilisi Dev Fund boss fired, run, rare mammal spottings, top young pianists, Unfriended horror grosses, Italian doc on skiing, Bush painted over, immigration law getting fixed, parliament article, 3.7 mil pop, pre-Riga EU visa free issues, Kordzaia to Reps, Proc appointed by parliament soon, Tsul says, Interior and Security to be resplit, Chinese ag min in town, European Court of Human Rights says Gov caused problems in pro-tolerance march 17 May 2015, TBC gets awards, RMG gold probs, Lailash bible mess, Russian bikers, Guria governor, army convictions for mistreating conscripts, Donetsk recognizes SO and Abkh, SOCAR illegal trip for DC brass, Kobuleti fires and others, Kaladze on energy prices, Moscow Georgian and his million $ diet bracelet, Dominos, Sundance, pork
TBLPOD7&14may2015
Tiniko DefMin, NDI numbers, EBRD, cabinet shuffle, Pillsbury for GoG, Armos and Ossets in Karabakh, EU charm trips, CoE wants into ABL, US materiel, Interior reforms, Moldova Ukraine Geo parl chat shop, Poti strike, inflation, Gali kid death for not paying bribe, Rezo Chkheidze died, Chiatura demos, US puts 5 million on Batirashvili of ISIS, consulate in West Jerusalem, wine to China, Kharagauli football game fixing, fuel hike, importing Russian sheep, Tbilisi Dev Fund boss fired, run, rare mammal spottings, top young pianists, Unfriended horror grosses, Italian doc on skiing, Bush painted over, immigration law getting fixed, parliament article, 3.7 mil pop, pre-Riga EU visa free issues, Kordzaia to Reps, Proc appointed by parliament soon, Tsul says, Interior and Security to be resplit, Chinese ag min in town, European Court of Human Rights says Gov caused problems in pro-tolerance march 17 May 2015, TBC gets awards, RMG gold probs, Lailash bible mess, Russian bikers, Guria governor, army convictions for mistreating conscripts, Donetsk recognizes SO and Abkh, SOCAR illegal trip for DC brass, Kobuleti fires and others, Kaladze on energy prices, Moscow Georgian and his million $ diet bracelet, Dominos, Sundance, pork
TBLPOD9april2015
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 $, Margvel gives health min a medal, Japanese woman like Geo wine, US Coast Guard memorial, Geguti getting fixed up, new power line to Armenia, Google Maps expanding, docs on mountains get support, remains of Geo war dead from 2008, biodegradable bags, Kutaisi to Istanbul 30 Euro, tiny streets named for women, oxygen leak in Imereti, solidarity fund, PM has son, Corn Island prize, AIESEC forum, new parliamentary committee chairs, the Patriarch ok’s caviar.
TBLPOD22jan2015
Exploding plant, Kist protest, EU brass Hahn visit, Geo soldier falls at Donetsk Airport, Arminia family murder by Russian soldier, OSCE parl visit, Oscar talk, Geo joins EU Ukraine Advisory Mission, NATO sec gen to visit in Feb, Garibashvili in Davos, new Supreme Court leader chat, Zguladze on Ukraine traffic police reform, Interior brass to Spain, (non) univ tower in Batumi to be sold, lost shepherd in Ergneti froze, 2:1 lari/$, 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
TBLPOD15jan2015
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
TBLPOD8jan2015
PM sets up parallel MFA, Ilia says no jobs so men beat wives, PM to Latvia, EU Neighborhood Hahn to Tbilisi 15-17th, Janelidze to Afghanistan, more Zhvania investigations, intelegencia KGB says KGB guy, Bakhmaro avalanche, missing Georgian in South Ossetia found dead, NBG Kadagidze gets award, Georgia shrinking & aging, female Georgian chess players dominate, plastic bags, underage internet gaming to be regulated, Togonidze on friendships with handicapped on Azrebi, Eka Bseselia’s white boots, Rostneft in Poti, Gogava on Ukraine, Jones on Bendukidze, visitors, Geo movies in DC.
TBLPOD1jan2015
Parliament Donnybrook, Rosneft buys Poti, another Georgian dies in Syria, Guerrilla Gardeners arrested over Panorama demo, Misha on Interpol red notice, Def Min hostages still no bail, Tsulukiani calls on Supreme Court chair replacement chat, priest dies in Italian ferry fire, Sputnik off, Monte Carlo fined, Margvel ok with Putin chat, PM and Margvel addresses, Gldani prison beating, Geo anti-US says BS NGO, Kadyrov train to Geo, pardons, Baku Kars train, Foreigners reg on line not Mushroom, plastic bags may go, IDP dad visit detained, Judo guy gets prize, Sakdrisi halt, CEC appointment, Georgian film brand, Ilia 37 year seat.
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
TBLPOD9oct2014
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
TBLPOD18sept2014
More Pres v PM BS, BI in Kviris Palitra, NYT says arm Geo, Giga in DC, Batumi Dumbadze booted, KaZantip 2015 church wants water monopoly there, Narmania pays for kids, market fire, NATO Breedlove says Geo good, PM in UAE, GoG says Crimea elections BS, Moscow flights back, Germans mugged in Svaneti, Students protest re TSU ed, new public info site, SO military exercises, Alasania’s son joins army, Svaneti ski development, no Azeri media on NATI exercises, GYLA wins free foreign kids case, prisoners deaths, Vatican chat, methanol by rail now, Swiss watch Geo docs, juries delayed again, language nationalism bill prepared, door welded on sick kids home, Lomsadze on the seduction of talking about coups, Leonard Lopate chef chat, asylum numbers. Girls that code, Kargi Gogo
TBLPOD11sept2014
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
TBLPOD4sept2014
Misha in Sarpi, NATO in Wales, more NDI #’s, visas, meds, Mestia cop brawl, DCFTA in force, Margvel in UK, EBRD, top Marine visit, Azeri guards fired, Georgia competitive rank increase, more Bakradze HSBS bs, Dariali opens, Ukrainian kids to Georgia, ex-GYLA Chugo gives out HR Tulips, pro Ukraine demo, no passport for Kitovani, Bacho book, new army MP chief, Nikosi film festival, Mufti says no Shia/Sunni issues, bridge painters fined, Czech research, IS says will attach Chechnya, Tedo in Iran, Kiev flights, army death, wine in Austria, Geo Estonian movie Oscar nomination, Frankfurt book fair, KaZantip wrap up, artificial snow, Tusheti Red Dear spotted, parl committees meet in Tbilisi now, fat photos, Slade book, Sunlight & TI on campaign cash
TBLPOD28aug2014
Bass to Yerevan, Raul new Abkhaz boss, more Dariali mud, Melnikov Girvliani cops plea, mayor sends poor kids to monastery (which is weird) UNM Ukraine support demo, Russians detain Gerogian along South Osset line, more Bakaradze HSBC stuff, tree choppers fined & ticked off, NDI poll, residence permits and new visa rules, prisoner fight, Ebola monitoring, Georgian ISAF award, Kakhi plays in Almaty, export boost to Russia, Turk paper on 2012 Tbilisi Sepāh plot, NATO Wales, Lavada on Russians on Abkhaz and Osetia and Georgia, free Hep C drugs for prisoners, film awards, Brides and President, Ali and Nino, shuki price drop, KaZantip probs, Alasania in CAR ice bucket, Abkhaz line clinic, Margvel’s declaration, Racha rain, Geo consulate in Donetsk bombed, 74% pass U exams, PM in Yerevan, Khevsur historical building fixed, Margvel award, ticked off Russian girls, Misha on Groundhog Day, Czechs on Georgian hero, Georgian classes in London
TBLPOD21aug2014
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.
TBLPOD14aug2014
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
TBLPOD10july2014
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
TBLPOD3july2014
EU deal, Gigi airport nab, another Bacho charge, foreigner ag land, elections, dark Brit dissed at airport, ships get better, Pankisi floods, few cars to AZ, drug dogs, biz up on EU deal, cheap Hep C drugs, art students ticked, CIS trade chat, credit cards, Charkviani suicide, camel attack, past Russian agreements, Ramishvili on zombies in Kakheti.
TBLPOD22may2014
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
TBLPOD15may2014
Bad gas, Van Rompuy, more R2 spy stuff, no tanks, cops seek gay waiters, another Kez charge, Girwood, NDI: folks like Ilia, Dreams candidates, Turks & Abkhaz, UNM event, UNM gets 5 back, UNM prisoner video video, Hollande visits signs stuff, French biz cash, Stalin briefly back in Gori, LGBT premier canceled, author shot, family values, new WB strategy, EY entrepreneur race, TBC to IPO in UK, Victory Day, Georgia Eurovision jury cheats, data laws, tolerance, Mestia airport, OGP, Nodia, Mutso, internet #s, fashion, purges, tourists up
TBLPOD8may2014
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.
TBLPOD24april2014
New Russian passport rules, Data wants Greek asylum, CEC says no Okruashvili in Gori, 3.5 mil voters, TV crew sprung, 2008 Geo prisoners in Russia sprung, Misha presidential library, new Zugdidi train, 69 pardons, gold mine halt, Abkhazia Google Voice, Georgian heroes in Netherlands, harassment in schools, entrepreneurship in curriculum, Ilia: worry about sin, Genocide monument, Georgian Cannes movie, ten things to know about new residency law, broadcaster board increase, anti-discrimination bill, NYT says Teft to Russia, Lomsadze on Khaduri’s famous meal, religion in public schools, new Georgian restaurant in London review, wandering books, Schengen rejection rate, Cambridge, Atlanta events.
TBLPOD
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
TBLPOD6feb2014
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
TBLPOD16jan2014
Entrepreneur support, prison min says Vano BSing, more Bacho charges, Wikileaks on Geo gun ban, thug wrist slap & Margvel comments, IMF on growth, 24 hour Larsi, UNM Putin plans, Hungry recs Geo no-status docs, ex-proc German cop slap, BS crime stats, crank call crack down, new IDP buildings, Tbilisi Canton plan, Nigerian beat up, Abkhaz McDonalds, GoG Abkhaz FB page, hotel in Vake park protest, rich Estonian in hydro, lari fall plan, 30k jobs, Forbes like Bachiashvili, Patriarch has employment plan, Ilia file, two Muftis, Zhvania foundation, cheap Hep C drugs, AIDS, Sochi flights, Washingtonians of the year to synths, Opera guy resigns, Radio Muza closes, Will on food, new Zebra, parliamentary Tbilisi trick, Radical Partisan Guerrilla Girls post, read Usupashvili and Slade, biz index.
TBLPOD9jan2013
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
TBLPOD5dec2013
Shevy hater, Kiev sympathy demo, miscarriages of civil justice comission on hold, Unesco on Kvevris, Gharibashvili on Misha’s debt, econ council, PACE’s knickers in a twist, Bacho gets off, EBRD and Tbilisi RR tracks, Ilia hates Local Gov law, pres $, Anti-Semetic nuts, Saganelidze bolts, Volsky Dream pol sec, Vashadze thinks mayor, Reintegration becomes Reconciliation, budget says deflation, Corruption rank 51 to 55, Ilia invites Kirill, Georgian Putin puffery book appears, Chela minaret back, GPB spots, wind and Mushroom Patch problems, Lords on Justice House, new bldg in front of Raddison, Genocide movie, new liberty charter, Shalakho chatter, breadwinners
TBLPOD24oct2013
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
TBLPOD10oct2013
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.
TBLPOD3oct2012
Falina, Bi on Natvlishvili, more barbed wire, BI lectures journalists, Misha at UN, freakish exit visa law pulled, giant new fund with BI’s billion, Misha yells at Bryza, Misha says barbed wire in Samegrelo next, jihad video case, salary increase enters judicial negotiations, Bidzinoba, Margvel at 56%, Dato 12%, Nino 10%, Ilia says vote, Ugulava talks ships, Dream MP Kiguradze is corrupt, Price of the State launch, CEC list of world polling stations, 20 years since Sokhumi fall, fine increase, Khudoni dam in Svaneti, CNN on Georgian biz, wine makers in Kvareli, grape buying, environment laws, grammar police, JumpStart church money poster, tourism rank.
TBLPOD19sept2013
Tzar or Bolsh trigger men, Land Tax, Ilia on majority & foreign farmers, Ilia’s Wat$ch to BI, fence move, new EUMM guy, fake calls, Batumi shooting, dep min detained, Mestia bribe, Vano Kutaisi, prisoner’s arm, Shuakhevi & Khudoni dams, forrest fund, 1st channel vetoes UNM ads, public chat show probs, CEC & media, Burj & Kists & Russia, Turks get passports, airport medals, Sochi stuff, Swiss visa pact, new Energy chief, Papava cuts U funds, Poles visiting, rich metro Iraqi, free text books, Istanbul cheap, Misha & Akhaltsikhe garbage, Richter, Hans, Stefan Tolz movie