TBLPOD26may2016

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

TBLPOD19may2016

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

TBLPOD28april2016

ODRs, Batumi family pressure, Kvirik in DC, Usup in Brussels, more visa stuff, BI botanical gardens grab, Bank cuts rate, NATO later, Osset border, Yerevan bomb, movies, Rep Russell freaks, Misha tells R2 he will return, Abkhaz booth shut down in Montenegro, Azeri Def Min plane in Israel, Blockchain land titling, Baghdati gamgebeli arrest, red flag removal, double decker trains, judo gold, demining drones, National beat up in Rustavi, CenterPoint still hasn’t built or paid back, Pshavi special, Pastafarians turned down, Telavi airport, partly free press, new Tbl bus stops, Tabakhmela villas, Russians say tangerines Turkish, Uranium, driver protest, Greek murder extradition, Latvian hacker arrest, no Turkey land grab, Ramazzotti, Topishare, two election amendments, PM to run as MP, CNN Parts Unknown

TBLPOD21april2016

Students still ticked off PM involved, Constitutional Court says gov can’t vacuum up all personal data all the time, Bollywood push, lari up, local elections runs don’t require party, Putin will organize Ossetian referendum, visa free no conditions, PM TV chat, Free Uni Google Start up. Abkhaz mp car bomb, solar farm, anti-smoking bill, Mariott Moxy, German 140 mill, Uranium 238 sale arrest, gold arrest, LNG terminal, Batumi mosque rally, court against Giuli, Georgian in Greece, hazelnut rules, Racha parks, Senaki cement plant, Cologne exhibition, Estonian tax model bill

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

TBLPOD7april2016

Bidzina and the Panama Papers, Elections 8 Oct, NK, more sex tapes, Dream and Republicans run apart, students still at it, Pankisi imams say no child brides, Sakvarelidze booted in Kiev, Gazprom deal, IS drop, Shalva Ramishvili fired, women to top court one a homophobe, Keza not extradited, E Kodua sentenced, taxi regulations, 140 German Euro line to gov, marriage inequality referendum, Gori prof fired for saying no Stalin statue, Korea investment, big hotel, new Tskneti Betania road collapse, red zebras in Didube, teacher training, olives in Sighnaghi, dolphins, Lelos, anti smoking rally, tractor plant, and continuing coverage of the European Emergency Number Association

TBLPOD24march2016

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

TBLPOD17march2016

Dunbar visit, University protests, sex tapes, lari up, Karasin BS, Gvenetadze replaces Kadagidze, new AZ gas deal, SO road, Otsneba marriage inequality amendment, Levan Gach Maestro director, visa free update, Petriashvili attack arrest, al-Shishani dead again, Daesh arrests, governors resign, Otsneba strife, prisoner exchange, Margvel econ adviser, Japan highway cash, EU cash for association deal, Bobokhidze Tsulukiani exchange, Army Muslim mosque, Tech park in Zugdidi, Crowne Plaze Borjomi opens, Tskhaltubo development, replace Radisson parking lot finally, Larsi checkpoint update, Saudis get Delta trucks, rich guy wants Jvari in Jerusalem, Beigbeder visit, Riga parrots, loud noise law, Beidul Rustaveli

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

TBLPOD10sept2015

China! TV political chatlessness, McCain inst event, Tinko EUshi, lari 2.43, Israeli factory, Misha spars in Ukraine, new Tbl dep-mayor, Union one with Sakdrisi RMG, Abkhaz brass banished from Moldova, Kremlin drops Armenian gas price, Kulo Otsneba goon anti-Armenian, Japanese help with solid waste, Israeli hotels, Google Maps fix Abkhaz, more Russian troops in Abkhazia, guy grows weed in Samegrelo, bread standards go up, Barcelona flights, Batumi Le Meridien, visa free Argentina, Shatili park, disabled get 60 more lari, Az earthquake, new rugby bases, honey export, TSU 830th! new gym, Kilts in town, Dutch ballet prize, banking supervision out of nat bank

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.

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

TBLPOD14nov2014.2

RIP Bendukidze, Beruchashvili now FM, Garibashvili Alasania spar, BI interview gems, Otsneba lobbying in DC, Pankisi fight, tranny killed, new Vano Misha charges, al Shishani killed? Margvel to Parl re EW, Narmania starts plating seeds. EBRD Dariali dam, angry priests, Abkhaz water to Sokhumi.

TBLPOD13nov2014

RIP Bendukidze, Beruchashvili now FM, Garibashvili Alasania spar, BI interview gems, Otsneba lobbying in DC, Pankisi fight, tranny killed, new Vano Misha charges, al Shishani killed? Margvel to Parl re EW, Narmania starts plating seeds. EBRD Dariali dam, angry priests, Abkhaz water to Sokhumi,

TBLPOD23oct2014

Russian Abkhazia annexation angst, Bacho & Vano sentenced, TSU prof murder suicide, more Muslim Christian village strife, NATO chief in town, Pankisi IS commander chatter, Usupashvili’s latter was ad, Azeri freedom of speech demos in Tbilisi, anti UNM demos, Jewish museum reopens, new EU ambo set up, Lith FM in town, students against gas station, Margvel in Japan, Turkish days, The President movie gets award, floods, Ukraine support rallies, Supreme Court appointments supported, violence against women, ego plates, Capa in Kutaisi

TBLPOD2oct2014

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

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

TBLPOD1may2014

Church sticks up for the right and obligation to discriminate, Dream mayors named, Judo goon throws eggs in Kvareli, Small Biz Dev Agency starts, Kodua and Siradze of KUDI and SODI investigated, Okruashvili sends in friend, Jonjoli operation, DCFTA chat, obligatory car insurance, Mokalake media study, IDP houses, free land to Church on Agmashenabeli, Geo wine in Russia, Georgian-Indian deal, new cement factory in Poti, Crimea bound tourists come to Georgia, Germans fix books, Esquire on London’s Marani, Ajaruli dish of the week in DC, handgun regs, Baramidze & free speech bill, Tbilisi snobs, tons to read, huge foreign trade boost, and lots of photos in Tbilisi.

TBLPOD3april2014

New TBLPOD.com Database, torture death, constitution marriage BS, Skype Misha, no gas with ZZ death, Russians in SO, EC report, visa free start of 2016, IRI says everybody happy, TV 25 boss problems, Zviad b-day, Karumidze UK ambo Svan issue, Tuvalu de-recognizes, Porto consul, Mr. Ankara Elegant, Courts support Curse of Ham freak, Patriarch Batumi house gift swap, more broadcast board candidates, Misha will write, marriage for cows, new subway stop, Vilnius cheap, TBL airport nice, Belarus wine probs, wine site, Georgians snatching up London pads, Ucha wants to shoot prisoners, Tsulukiani report, law on ag buying fixed, Guerrilla Gardeners picnic, Applebaum, Brits on Tbilisi dagger behind Imeli, school report, trade opportunities, Akvarium

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

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.

TBLPOD19dec2013

Ugulava questioned, Vano threatened, Kakhi on new gas line, new governors, new crisis group, ex-ZZ body guard prosecuted, ZZ case will reopen, Vashadze slanders, Misha in NYC, Misha medal to Petraeus, NDI on Russia attitudes, EU programs & 27 Euros, Rasmussen thanks BI, Usupashvili annoyed with chatty MPs, Lari drops, 54 pardons from comission, Kakabadze wants miscarriage committee, Gali villages renamed, fancy Ajara car (Kakhi ticked), agenda.ge, Georgian crime ring in France and Denmark, Stalin in Georgia statue on hold, Chabua Amirejibi dies, parliament on Ukraine, AgeWatch on Georgia, Radarami on Stalin

28nov2013

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

TBLPOD21nov2013

Margvel pres, Gharibashvili with MPs, Israel visa free, Norland straight talk, Karasin says nothing, Identoba clarification, naughty hypocritical priest, new judges, Gvaramia and Khetaguri let off, Interpol on Adeishvili, loaded MP Dato Bezhuashvili leaves UNM, Zakaria replaced as Dream faction boss, Kaladze takes over Dream party, Misha gives out 400 passports, Misha “books not guns” Misha awards to Hillary, journos, Residence empty, Abashidze replaces Barnovi, RR strike, Subari talks Hep C, some idiots on the internet, more hydro, fake Abkhaz operation, Danelia blames Tkhemaladze, Chkhikvadze monument, Gurjaani tomb, winds in Samegrelo, Abasha rice experiment, visa changes, great Jones piece, Geo environment rank, Destination EU, recycling

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.

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

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