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
Tag Archives: Ratiani
TBLPOD19jan2017
National Movement finally splits, EU parliament committee voted for visa lib, everybody ticked off at Gazprom deal, State Sec Kerry quick stop, Spain trip, Davos, Tibilov talks crap and SO election 9 April, Usupashvil will start new party oh great, Igor Giorgadzes knickers in a twist, Turkmen oil back, EBRD funds Sadakhlo bridge, imports up 28 percent, remittence numbers, real estate sales up, Chinese buying Poti port from Arabs, Kuwait in Ajara, China wine deal, Batumi Subway, Racha strip works, Zestaponi wind farm coming, childrens hospice, Wekua at Gladstone, femicide bill, NDI numbers, Misha on R2, wool numbers down, lots of Georgia stuff in London
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
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
TBLPOD27oct2016
Sandra calls fowl, Free Dems go Otsneba, Krtsanisi shooting, EU visa free update, Pakistan meeting, Rakviashvili Sec of Sec Council, Isoria on draft, Patriotebi new math, fewer ministries, Ukraine and Poland talk WWII start, South Ossets to join Russian army, EU governance reform 30 mil, 3 ABL abductions, soldier death in Kakheti, Geo Manganese lawyer arrested, Larsi closes due to snow, 112 Rustavi office, Tarek food response, Sarpi software glitch, savings down lari loans up, IMF growth numbers, Gardabani plant, TBC insurance, Textile plant in Poti, German trains to Tehran, Rakia fixes Metechi, more right hand drive car drama, tennis win, Poles study Geo wine, Chubabria on homelessness, De Waal Pushkin, Melua, sheep, VOTE
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
TBLPOD8oct2015
More R2 BS, UNM demo dudes detained, Margvel miffed, MAP angst, Football Fed Vote Rig, KazTransGas mess, inflation up, bent prison tenders, Marneuli Free Dems bolt, soldier shot in heart, Mayor subsidizes shuki, cheap loans, Geo Paris fashion leader, arrests in Greece, no Stalin in Gori, Meria exits, Leuville plan, Russian drafting, best actor Tolordava, Peru consul, road accidents, Batumi madrasa, small airports, new Radisson, Vale RR, Maltakva funds, Subu arrest, 17YO chess champ, Racha grapes 5 teti/KG, Kobuleti floods, arm wrestling, London sculpture, budget, proc comp, Lelo Gorgodze
TBLPOD27aug2015
Lari drop,NATO chief visit, by-election boycott, 500 Russian railway troops in Abkhazia, China visit, AIIB founding, UN General Assembly visit drama cont., Otsneba searches for platform experts, Mushroom continues to fall apart, ABL abduction, Tibilov says no talk until ceasefire, Constitution 20 b-day, Burchaladze rumors, FM Kvirikashvili?, Ali and Nino statue broke, new old inscription, ice cream bacteria, Abkhaz football fans, Kvevri at UN Geneva, Ketevan back from India, frozen embryo to woman by court, Enguri historical, more airport drug busts, Ukrainian army treated at Tserovani, Shuki price to go way up, CT Park move kid, Pole saved on mountain, tourist marshutka wreck, Batumi investment event, crazy rain, grape subsidy, Israeli investment, Khevsur towers, Kakheti women, doc in Berlin on Osset wall, Ireland and Dadianis, L’Orial Georgian model, rugby in UK
TBLPOD9july2015
Kezerashvili charged, Saudi prince flood cash, US pays Misha’s salary, Kvitashvili did quit, Ukraine prosecutor charged with corruption, Turkmen gas transit, Strasbourg court may say Russia pays 70 mil, NATO exercises at Vasiani, Nat Bank report on gov, Ratiani leads UNM, Kvirik says Greek banks closed no big deal, Kutaisi mafiosi arrested in Spain, Ukraine death not war says Misha, more Russia talk, Dutch and Austrians ratify Association, new Tbilisi Sabortalo Metro stop, construction deaths, UEFA paper ticket sales, Azerbaijani flag trampled by soccer goons, cargo ship fined, life saving hero priest, Batumi Central train station opens, meat fines, KaZantip critiques Georgians, UNESCO on monuments, judo, tennis star, autism treatment, new commemorative coin, Zemfira with Ukrainian flag, film subsidies, police death cash to families, split power ministries, police violence, Hep C treatment, #ElectricYerevan in Brussels, khingali class in London
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
TBLPOD27feb2014
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
TBLPOD30may2013
Tallinn, Osset fence, No theocracy demo, calm independence, digital privacy (not), BI ambo meeting, Gali spies, Tamazashvili resurfaces, Vano still in, Pipia Ag Min, new Kutaisi mayor, priests, Subari on Bacho methods, Ferro strike, Abkhaz Church under who, IDP IDs, Kobakhidze on UNM, R2 guy on State Audit payroll, Chiora aggressor walks, Saviatoslav passport, TI sues FinMin, Jr MP mom got GoG $, trash cost by family size, new pushup record, Borjomi in Russia, Christian Dems want to take land, Call of Taburetka, inequality numbers, LGBT meeting, WIP on language, Japan crafts
TBLPOD16may2013
BI picks Margvel, sex tape leaker Khvedelidze arrested, Burj is back, Givi Targamadze back in Tbl lets rip, Chiora puncher gets job, secret cop cams, Misha with students, Georgians killed in Afghanistan, Lugar Lab re-registers, Kronika hilarity, Georgians feel safe at night, Kakheti rains, Stalin in Sighnaghi, EBRD forecast dims, new European entity, Otar dies, vetoes, kicking back on plani, BBC on graveyard picnics, patents, Friday anti-homophobia day
TBLPOD14feb2013
Chatham House report on NGOs, Bibliogeddon, Koba Sergo cage fight, Narazeni eggs, Okruasvhili walks, Donadze chat, 5.2 mil in “jobs”, Bacho mistreats Dreamers, Tortladze’s Toyota, 7K walk, Margvel Deputy PM, Fule 20 mil, Kabakhidze resigns, Forestry guy back, Givi in Moscow with 600 bucks, Resources to environment, monument to Misha’s victims, more pink Stalin, no more API Super, Russian wine documents, tax owed, strikes, Navtlugi market, cheap Pegasus, Pasha Bank, Collective Ag Bill, pop names, Imedi on Elton John’s kids, Ms. Bagrationi on a bed, movies
TBLPOD31jan2013
CIS & Shalva back, Davos (whatever), UNM MPs ticked at Ilia, Kezerashvili, Chocheli, rev eating its own (Emiridze), new pardon comish, aggressive Armenian sprung, prison cameras, Tsulukiani annoyed at judges, BI & Obiektivi lady up for Nobel, PACE chatter, Khaburdzania does his job, wrestlers tussling, Gerogian made materiel, Ag fund, UNM leave constitutional talks, ex-con rehab, ambos, marshutka drivers (e plus ça change…), Badri bride Borjomi bail, Abkhaz russian in Syria shot, school busses, teachers get cash, Sturua drama, dacha thefts, confidence down, BA goes, Shengelaia award
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.