Senior priest cyanide arrest conspiracy, immanent Rustavi 2 decision anxiety protests, Ucha law on occupied territory movement, Margvel looks at Security Strategy, new conscripts, guy who wanted to blow up Givi Targamandze gets no jail time, US says no Alania, Vake BMW shooting, Russian bus in Abkhazia gets stoned, Philip Morris gets ginormous fine, Biblus employees ticked off, remittences up, Rustavi Metallurgical exports pipes to EU, WizzAir starts London Kutaisi, Flydubai starts Dubai Batumi, Georgian olive oil, Georgian movies at Berlinale, Kobakhidze replaced in parliament, great new prison law, Janelidze in DC, Georgia 2nd to Trump, Coda on identity, alphabet, Kvanchkhara
Tag Archives: Targamadze
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
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
TBLPOD20oct2016
Runoffs, Mtatsminda, Zugdidi, amendments, Givis car bomb arrest, trans women beaten in Ortachala, Abkhaz death in assassination attempt, Geo joins EU Energy Community, Duma joins Russian and Abkhaz armies, movies return, French ship in Batumi, new Geo China leader, Alasania future, Rustavi crash, Sabortalo construction death, Larsi road closed, bear, Bakurtsikhi bypass, Kazakh cargo tariff free, Biltmore casino, Israeli airplane part factory planned, citrus harvest, Mitarbi back, Dartlo road rebuild, Gia Dvali wins Humboldt, Jashi wins in Chile film fest, Halloween
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
TBLPOD1sept2016
Pipeline insider spills, Turks call off scuba search, parties and blocks finalized by CEC, visa vote 5 Sept, IPRM on SO, Ilham meeting, Izoria to Baghram, R US Reps in Tbl and ABL, OSCE observers, NATO exercises, Otsneba will build road through Dariali, Targamadze on crime boss, Narmania yelled at on trees, Rustavi prisoner escapes again, Kakheti fire, Liberty Bank in Gldani robbed, Mestia tourists found, GDP down, wind turbine in Gori, candy in Baghdati, Borjomi in Korea, Japan Tobacco says excise high, Racha tourists, Georgia safe, Georgia great medal count per GDP, youth chess champ, no show for neutrality meeting, Russian TV bundles, Stalins Ghost new movie, TI on budget, Trans Caulk trail, Dariko wedding photos, War Nerd on 2008, DeWaal on Russia Turkey Melua with Gori singers
TBLPOD26march2015
UNM rally, Roland off, new IRI numbers, Nat Bank says rate stays same at 4.5%, Geneva talks tense, Nowruz in Marneuli, procs grill ex def min guy, Imedi says Dream pressure, Norway parliament boss visit, NGOs on Industry anti-west talk, PM to Kiev delay, Econ Min on China trade, Dutch investors, State says drug drop, Hep C plan, bacteria warning, interior min firing for Givi Targ info, Batumi mosque plan, university entrance exams, Margvel marches on World Down Syndrome Day, Big Shuakhevi dam loans, Airport top, international prosecutor group says sure fine go after UNM guys, biathlon track in Bakuriani, Lelo’s dominate, manuscript translation, Georigan and Korean sailors, Judo, Zaza Pachulia dominates, eggs in Italy, Donetsk kids visit, UK 28 mil, Georgian opera singers in La Scala, Georgians negative, Gvenetadze confirmed to head Supreme Court
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.
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
TBLPOD20march2014
ZZ vid, BI Margvel dis, Odisharia too, visa free to Israel, EU speed up, Bendukidze questions, Kodua arrest, Data arrest, Friday phone protest, Aug 2008 exits, Targamadze leaves Burj, Rustavi mayor race, UNDP guy says 14mil to Abkhaz, Crimea fight, Garibash at TSU, gold mine goes, Turk troop Armo flip out, Mokalake wants to train journos, new Partnership Fund factory, salary jump, dead fish, Khobi Jahovas, UK visa move, Sukhishvilebi cancels Russia, Intercon to open on Kostava, MP Roland Akhalaia investigation, “We are Ukrainians” song, surveillance (still), Rimple on Sakdrisi, Mishga Guardian, TV market, state views, peace rank, Mchedlishvili on Adoration, Tamar Mepe talk in London
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.
TBLPOD12dec2013
Parliament donnybrook, Local Gov changes, Misha in Kiev, proc arrest for fake vid, thief in law murder nab, Internat Anti-Corruption day, Margvel ambos, Obama writes BI, Margvel on Mandiba, June local elections, Narmania tents, Papuashvili Venice Comish, Telavi tenders Stalin exit, Hanakkah whacks wrist slap, Kutaisi candy, RR numbers, Geo biz #50, investments up, architecture book, big shuki cut, new Norio dump, Khudoni damn protest, 5 mil MP housing, Cassels in Tbl, Sochi flights, budget, Antelava v de Waal, Georgian Jihadi, TI on UNM procurement, average tourist spend, Apollo photos
TBLPOD31oct2013
Will & Mathias! Margvelashvili! GeoCell honest about GoG spying, Misha speech, new PM name, Margvel’s chief of staff, Imerlishvili to be Giga, Gamzakhurdia to be in Exile Abkhaz gov, EU & Vilnius, Bacho, governors resign, KUDI fake IDs, boring Gharibashvili report, Russian Telecom, heat to ABL folk, Genady goes, Misha Akhalkalaki fight, traffic fines, youth palace weapons, Giorgadze will arrive, parliament & Kutaisi, Margvel’s partner, Doing Business again.
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
TBLPOD17oct2013
Kez gets Interpoled, BI on Sochi, Misha in Dvani, apples, Russians warm on Georgia, Gennady on lab, ag approved for Russia, Strasbourg cour’s late, Hammarberg’s told intolerance is a Georgian tradition, UNM freaks & walks over Tsulukiani, Batu bolts, no Geo vote in Russia, party $ #s, Orban gives Sabanadze asylum, Norland gets bracelet, Russian bikers in Mskheta, BI Bayrams, Ucha says don’t criticize Patriarch, Kremlin likes Misha not BI -Edik, Vano predicts trouble, Batumi rabble rousers, IMF downgrades, passports to Turks, BI on Armenian “other”, clutchless drivers tests, Prudential debates, Pres library, Baia leads Maestro TV, Goodwill problems blames UNM, whacky Rikhe building no $, March Moscow flights, Gandagana meme, spanking, Tbl jazz, Artisterium, Nov Tbi Startup Weekend.
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.
TBLPOD26sept2013
CRRC/NDI #’s: Jobs #1, more Osset barbed wire, Hammarberg report, Misha & Obama, Burj financial issues, Smirba got a plan, Lakayev extradition, lots of little presidents, Margvel program launch, Kbilashvili in Moscow, Vano MEP visit, Bacho on prosecutors, Bacho’s wife’s video, Sabanadze (34 million) Chkhitunidze, Melnikov extradtions, Levan Pirveli’s back! Immoral behavior & physiological needs, Kakabadze manifests metaphor, 1000 Lari Kakheti vouchers, Huter ag suit, Misha mayor, Sokhumi off plane, Lesotho Ambassador, floods in Mestia and Kakheti, Girvliani’s mom’s statue, Tamaz Tkemaladze wants TV show, Rachveli conductor quits, Export Development Agency, ISET say GeoStat numbers good, more sanitary inspectors, In Bloom award, Margvel on Stalin, Tourism guy on Azeris and Jews, Kutaisi-Vilnius, constitution, inventions, Zero tolerance schooling, old people %.
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
TBLPOD29aug2013
Government pulls down minaret, stop & search raids, Zhvania proposed as CEC head, Shashkin inquest, more Kakabadze BS, Patton Boggs, Putin in Bichvinta, Italian mayor, double barrelled Bloomberg interviews, records to be expunged, Mariamoba amnesties, Gigi Kalandadze want apology, Olympic boss charged, Burjanadze people say people like her, Melor freaks pays 100 lari, Bobokvati no longer Mishas, Vano case postponed (again), Davitashvili says no jail for plani, DC Embassy for sale, BoG robbed, #’s, Russia trade up, million $ Georgian painting, 1% law in the works, road deaths, Chiatura cables
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.
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
TBLPOD23may2013
Homophobic rampage, Taburetka, Vano arrested, Police Day, Nana Kakabadze, Burj declares, Vanuatu no but Ecuador and Belarus maybe, RR Ezugbaia case, Russian TV on Givi’s $700 revolution, Khaburdzania, Zestaponi strike, Misha and Rubio, student funding BI invites Misha to independence event, Tbilisi City Hall Imedi cash, Real TV sale, Partnership for Road Safety, weed demo, no foreigners ag land bill, Gatsby opens, Book Fair, new Lebanese.
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
TBLPOD21feb2013
Guest Charles Fairbanks, godfather Koba, more pink, Buta Robakhidze video, Usupashvili statement on negotiations, TI BI 100 day event, new biz ombudsman, free health care for 2.2 mil, BI’s chair, Vano to patriots, Lessig, Tata plans, Mosque plans, ODIHR watch Akhalaia trial, dead prisoners, Givi’s overthrow, photographer non-spies, Ivanov case, more Ukruashvili, sakrebulo changes, Armenian elections, Fund cancels projects, soft drink producers off hook, special needs student book, Shorena I goes shopping in Paris, Ukraine and Warsaw flights, ambassadors, Hep C, Django.
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
TBLPOD10jan2013
Juries in big cases, Orthodox Christmas, Misha on Kempinski high-rise, TAV runway, Khobi hydro, amnesty, Kakha Targamadze crawls out, Adeishvili looses passports, Bedukadze coming back, some Okruashvili cases dropped, KUDI guys, Alasania ditches draft, CIPDD inside deal with Presidents Fund, new head of Revenue Service, Gulf disassembled, GoG fuel deal, signatures for Misha to resign, tractor jobs, Punjabi farmers, no pilgrim visas for Israel, more Stalins, Fisher Island Badri connection, free births, new ambos, UNESCO may drop Bagrat, Dubai flights, creepy xenophobic FB group with famous likes, 2012 top clergy quotes, smoking, Lebanese food.
TBLPOD13dec2012
Kitoshvili on Okruashvili, Expensive AKs, Def Mins yell, new MIA passport fake, Aslan Abashidze trial, Tsotne Gamzakhurdia, Melnikov in Ukraine, Def Min gives up taps, Burton wins Shiva, CIS what? MPs and Biz, Givi overthrows Kremlin, Nanuashvili Ombudsman, who can downsize Supreme Court judges? Big Geo Parma gets regulated, health care changes, ambo for prisoner swap, Frenchness and MPness, Gulfstream G5 to Bombardier, gas goes down 5, fancy condom ban, muslims can’t come in, TV, poor baby hostage, BP data, Center Point, Pegasus flights, Pirosmani, Georgian movies
TBLPOD15nov2012
Bacho: Gldani #8 to Ort #7, Kalandadze Sharmatava bail, Misha funny money, Tsulukiani transparency laws, Gigi no gov invite, DC Ambo goes, Tkhibuli strike, Telasi, DEXUS, Gvaramia heads R2, PIK shuffle, Obiektivi ticked, new faction of six (not ten), new Itara head, Culture deputies and FB, Tughushi out, Fin Min mucks with rates, fake Misha hit, football politics, Margvel talks tuition hike, Tech U kids ticked, daily UK flights, Lilo fire, ODIHR heads West, ownership society, Woody still on, Russian film fest, ear puller, per rights & All Stars.
TBLPOD8nov2012
Bacho’s back! Ilia, Jones & Holyoke, Bono, local gov, budget, lots of strikes and new comish, Kaladze sells, new faction, Moroshkina with prisoners, dep ed min says move to UK set up, Rev Service hist Channel 1, Chanturia cries politics, Badri’s daughter takes over Imedi, SOCAR gets Itera, Ex Interior Min Targamadze says he’ll return, new GeoCell boss, DCFTA, long churchkhela, Brazilian film festival, Lit in Georgia book, Iare Pekhit.
TBLPOD13sept2012
More election BS, debate drama, foreign observers state obvious, Melia sides with voters, US air defence help, US senators, satellites go postal, Carrefour, CEC and ExPats, more NDI/CRRC data, Pankisi, Russian Bildtaphobia, PVTs, cheap busses, visa free EU talks, Davos says Georgia competitive, FDI, HSBC becomes Pasha, Meredova becomes biz ombudsman, basketball, Spain, Featherly-Bean, new de Waal, Khachapuridze query, bank comments, chickens, Batumi flicks, Atlantic Council gabfest 19th DC.
TBLPOD10may2012
EU folk in politics, Dream IRI numbers, Targamadze, Kavtaradze, ballot photos, Ellen Barry, Lazika, Gonio, Kutaisi leak, Gori cop parade, US medals, Roland Khurtsilava, Abkhaz still ticked off at EUMM boss, new Ankvab attempt arrests, It Affects You, more feet washing, Gagnidze, earthquake, Zurab Delianidze, digital signature, Dexux, Agean Airlines, Dhabi group hotel in Emeli, Aldagi BCO bought Imedi-L, Italian police nab Georgians, microfinance regs, Locusts