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

TBLPOD5jan2017

McCain we still love Georgia tour, New Years speeches, Alania, Usupash says Margvel will resign, Misha v rest of the leaders continues, PM Poroshenko chat, visa free to Serbia, Abkhaz may leave Geneva, Abkhaz ABL crossings shut, Lith say no to Russian extradition, Pinecones plant weed, Ilia bday, Public Broadcaster short list, Booking dot com problem, Pankisi center torched, Santa robbery, GDP and inflation numbers, new tax code in force, three million tourists, Rukhi car market for Abkhaz, grape seed oil, Torpedo Kutaisi auction, Rural strategy, Sherlock shoot up in UK embassy, Molly McKew on Putins long game

TBLPOD29dec2016

Court strikes jail for weed, Abkhaz gunman convicted, National Movement split drama continues, Constitutional Commission meets, Kaladze meets RAO and Gazprom, Usupashvili mulls party says Khmalade, McCain and Graham talk NATO, Syria help, Russian military choir plane crash, PM says Janelidze speaks to chief Trump Kremlin lackey Michael Flynn, Imedi buys Maestro, Bedukadze gets show, visa free for Abkhaz and Ossets too, EU 44 mill, new central bank VPs, 15 candidates for public broadcaster chief, tiny car tax on the rich, TV manufacturer, Agrohub store for local crops, Teliani beer, Lysistrata gets gold, Iranian translation, judicial reform bill passes, free busses on new years

TBLPOD22dec2016

Russian ambo Istambul killed, EU visa lib progress, Lari slides, Akhalaia sentenced, Abkhaz protests, Russia human rights payout, Tedo in Turkey, Ajara Supreme Council probs, Europol, Trump pulls Batumi building, Norway CoE proj, new USAID cash, embezzling detentions, cop adults journo on ice, train fire, Svan avalanche, Vasadze says control media and women, Kakheti gets roads, German shuki in Guria, TBC helps Dutch, Qatar Doha flights, Melua gets medal, French pin Ovashvili, Demna get award, parliament talks budget and Syria aid, Inguri, Akhmeta metro, ISET loves Pinochet, Stephen Jones interview, Bitfury

TBLPOD15dec2016

EU visa free progress, Parliament chair Kobakhidze constitution comission, charges on UNM fake photographer spies case, Kaladze and Gazprom, Tedo Japaridze works with PM, weed decriminalization protest, European Investment Bank puts 450 million Euros into infrastructure, EUMM extension, UNM fires 20, Burchaladze back to song, Svans ticked at selfie, guy mad he was fired, Ajara avalanche victims saved, American tourist murder charge, another Pankisi Daesh kill, abortion church, Gelati fresco damage, book thief, Marneuli substation, Korean net station, lari slides, FDI up, export down, BoG 9 bil lari, no Alfa Bank, Svaneti power station by Turks, DC wine tasting, French TV like Buniatishvili, budget low, Melua song, Tillerson, Svaneti trip

TBLPOD8dec2016

PM meets on EU visas, Russian jail for texter, reserve fund abuse, Abkhaz opposition leader detained, Brit visit, end violence against women treaty, Ukraine talks occupation in UN, US defense pact signed, US Kelly says chill re Trump, IOM on HIV, Mokhe Mosque mess, Gori torah trashed, Akhaltsikhe marshutka wreck 8 dead, Chiatura mine death, Moodys on lariazation, inflation flat, car tax, textile factories opening via Turkey, wine numbers, Water bond, Racha airport and hotel, Abramishvili paintings, budget in parliament, Ellena on sex selective abortions, pension numbers via Meidan TV, ethnics ranked for biz, top khinkali says Rimple, Alania, persimmons, QSI

TBLPOD14april2016

New NDI numbers, sex tape arrests, TSU students ticked still, Kezerashvili in Panama Papers, Tibilov slobbering on Kremlin, Republican Ministers may resign in Aug, Syria death, Megis Kardava hit alleged, PM in Dubai, US Human Rights Report, another shepherd abducted to Tskhinvali, Yerevan anti-Russia demos, Birt dam near Mtskheta, Ponichala murder arrest, teachers salary increase, Manganese looses tax case, Mechiauri moves further Kremlinwards, PM on CCTV, Old Rustavi remonti, Zurab Tsereteli sculpts Zhirinovsky, drug dogs, Indian wrestlers, baggage handling award, IDP houses, Best Mezzo Soprano to Surguladze, parliament genocide fight, Akunin on Georgianess, TEDxTbilisi

TBLPOD22oct2015

Rustavi 2 closer to being shut by government, graphic video release times with NDI polls, Kvirikashvili with Ilham, more Gazprom talk, ICC in Georgia, Dream support falls, EU support down, Const Court harassed, Georgia in Afghanistan past 2017, first eight members of Proc Council, Tibilov wants to join Russia, lari down a bit, Margvel in Israel, Ukraine brass in Tbilisi, IB at Dream party congress, EBRD loan to Kutaisi sewers, EU Hahn will visit Tbl in Nov, three hydros on Mtkvari planned, Chinese power plant in Tkibuli planned, Turk power plant in Kakheti, US ship in Batumi, Tabula arrests for putting up posters, drug tests change, manuscripts UNESCO, Canadian ski plan, Chinese Tbilisi Sea hotel opens, OGP says Georgia good, judo win, swimmer no go, Univ demo on bad leadership, Axis Vake building restarts, Wardrop sculpture, Ketevan tile in Mukhrani, remittences drop

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

TBLPOD20nov2014

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

TBLPOD30oct2014

Def Min sting, Deputy Min Homophobic meat head, more Mokhe, Khajimba says chill on “integration”, UNM rally planned, Misha R2 interview, EU Geo Visa process ok, NDC meets with PM, violence against women discussion, Republicans want process, Iranian MPs visit, Zug Interior blast, WB doing biz number, Aeroflot back, Gharibashvili to Abkhaz and Ossets, French Def Min tnx for Congo troops, Russians hack GoG sites says NYT, more Alaval Dasavali beating stuff, US Embassy fixes church, brother booted from marshutka, Arveladze with Timoshenko, new UAE flights, parliament wants to keep Interior crawling around telecom servers.

TBLPOD16oct2014

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.

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

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.

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

TBLPOD19june2014

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.

TBLPOD27march2014

Misha questions, Tufts, ZZ death, Obama NATO, Tax goons hit TV Nielsen rating agency, Ag U, EU deal pronto, quick Obama Garibash chat, Okruashvili questions on Imedi, Applebaum on TV, MEP Schulz forgets Georgia, Burj & Christian Dems, Dom Kino fight, Koka on passports, early bride suicide, Gold deal, Cartu fund shuffle, TV $, giant BI Sololaki development, UN disaster, exporter protection, Wine #3, new Batumi RR station, subway safety, McD cheaper than Subway, Margvel and citizenship, wrong declarations, trust, nationalism, guerrilla guarders & splice!, Tuh-bli-si, dem rank, movies, London Bloom, Bauhaus

TBLPOD13feb2014

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

TBLPOD30jan2014

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.

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.

TBLPOD12sept2013

1% Law, In Riga BI says EU Pronto, CEC chair Zhvania, Salome still out, US State big guy meets Patriarch, 1st Channel director fired (again), RR boss Bakhtadze PM rumor, French choppers, Adeishvili with Orban, Kvitashvili leads Bakradze’s bid, crime rate up and half amnestied prisoners back in jail. ex MP arrested for drugs, Kutaisi mayor to spend time wit family, Russian diplomat shot in Sokhumi, UNM small change, City wastes Climate 1/2 mill Euro, customs point at Kazbegi, Kartveli Air Show, Kakheti Stalin statues, Misha up Kazbegi, archeology find in Old Tblisi, vetoes, Culture min takes back building permission, foreigners & ag land wrangles, Koba on cohabitation, Georgia happiness, Megrelian mummy, Marathon.

TBLPOD5sept2013

BI says again he’ll soon bolt, Armenia joins new improved USSR, more MinaretGate, cohabitation, destroyed video compromats, CEC chair runs for pres, Zurabashvili’s run in peril, BI meets Ambos, Misha won’t sign off on 7 Ambos. WikiLeakes on Mskheta security, Vano’s health bad, digital request for info, Kvesitadze and Paichadze get ax, Turk hospital boss probs, pension increase, Stalin in Telavi, Russians on 2008, floods this week, climate change Mayors Covenant, Croatians found, cigarette excise up, mil air show, Iraqi Air flies Kurds to Batumi, big judo win, parliament back in session, few Jews, Christianity big, WIPS, Batumi Indy Film, London Geo Film Fest

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

TBLPOD12july2013

BI (and everybody else) questions Kbilashvili on Bedukadze release, unfair Ag Min arrests, torture suicide, visa negotiations, collateral execution and loan regulations, Bakradze meets BI and Usupashvili, forestry policy, cutting down trees in Tbilisi, slow growth & big dormant companies, Tbilisi rail bypass, Kharagauli cave in, Dinamo protest, 5.2 million UNM donations, Ilves not stupid, TI Corruption Barometer, Innovation Index behind Armenia, Kutaisi Mayor drama, crimes down says Interior Min, ag co up set up, voter numbers, Swiss GeoWell Ag Report, new Christian Laghidze, Civil Service Bureau web page, Long Bright Days, 666 teacher freak out, Ilia on Muslims, Iraq flights, UNICEF plans re kids, constitution amendments, Tsulukiani blogging, pigs, beer, Gay.

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

TBLPOD13june2013

7 Georgian ISAF dead, BI takes Univ, muslims not allowed to pray, Kremlin says Georgia should change law, BI wants to hold onto compromats, Russian cash for recognition in Pacific, Judges election, Misha says no Tedo in UK, Batumi Mayor resigns, IDP houses, Dreamers miffed at Post, Kazakh’s back in gas, BI and Pablo, employment numbers, Russian language, Ed Min icon cards, Kutaisi trader tussles, anti-NATO rally in Batumi, Anti-Putin protesters arrested, BI re-designates off shore sites, traffic fines lowered, rent marshutkas, environment funds, Geo wine in Russia in two weeks, free Soviet posters, UN & NATO ambassadors

TBLPOD6june2013

The Fence, changes coming on ex-pat residency, Homophobe singer outed Paris show canceled, MEP visit, NATO guy visit, BI on NSC, Khaduri brothers at fence, priests say Jesus organized homophobes, MEP visits Vano in jail, BI says Burjanadze may be prosecuted, Misha spent state $ on Botox, UNM pres in ten days, violent prison death, judges election, compromat archives to be destroyed or not, dep Fin Min resigns, black boxes still there, Chechens on Lapankuri, Batumi Nigerian attack, French Georgian mob sweep, garbage fee, students and Margvel on summer jobs, Ag loans, wine clarity, Rikoti trees cut, diaspora study, flights, IMF debt, growth, Top Girl Porn, Kakhi game, foreigner ag land sale moratorium, Call of Taburetka off Facebook