Constitutional veto overridden, elections soon, candidate confusion on environment, pressure on candidates, Otsneba raises 4 mil lari, budget talks, Geneva talks, Turkey Az and Geo defense agreement, MFA says Catalan independence bad, Margvel in Italy, Geo sends Buk to Dutch intelligence, labor inspections open now, transgender city court case on forced sterilization grounds, South Ossetia follows Russia labels Jehovas extremist, SO information center run by Russian Interior Min, Sameba memorial for Abkhaz war dead, new Abkhaz Interior Minister to deal with crime, Gali mess, special Abkhaz bitcoin, BI gets 15 percent of Geo bitcoin mined, no women mayors, Ajara mountains gas pipeline, trade numbers: Turkey, Russia, China Az top list, exporting potatoes, Poland permanent archeological office in Kutaisi, Geo films in Chicago, Strange Nights Vodka in NYC, stink bugs get to Tbilisi, Malta house cleaner, marathon back on
Tag Archives: Venice Commission
TBLPOD12oct2017
Marvel vetoes new screwed up constitution, Venice Comish finally criticizes, last Georgian schools in South Ossetia close, Bidzina gets park to become Panorama parking lot for one lari, GUAM chat, EU parliament passed Partnership resolution with lots of potential goodies, Montenegro visa free maybe, SEDM in Batumi, EU Ambos see EUMM, OSCE media boss visit, Misha wants to defeat evil, Lado Chanturia in European Court, pardons, committee tries to put women in parliament, PM says he won’t be Pres, Zaliko and Aleko neck and neck, Studio Monitori says kindergartens used by Otsneba, TI on Sakrebulo and procurement, messed up Khalvashi land deal, church clash in Samtskhe Jav. Abkhaz war remains, Serbs in Sokhumi, ICC will have Tbilisi office, Iranian business meeting, grapes, WizzAir flights to Europe from Kutaisi, new University metro, Batsiashvili grand master, 8 Minutes wins in NYC
TBLPOD21sept2017
Kiev lives with Misha, PM and Sec Gen in NY, Margvels constitution to Venice, Laborist put up a mayor, Republicans nominate Bolkvadze, Mukhtarli rally, Gldani kid argument, TI commercial court assessment, Block Chain land transfer, Pekini done, Tbilisi waste processing plant, stamps, electronic DJs in Berlin, Beijing and Georgian wine, David Lynch Tbilisi November, Chugo talks trade in DC, tutoring stats, borderization, Smith interview, Miami paper on Chiatura, scientist Loladze on CO2 and nutrients, Odisharia book, Ajara birdwatching, Rustavi Choir and Melua in London
TBLPOD14sept2017
Misha gate crashes Ukraine, Pres tries to salvage Constitutional amendments, iFact on inside Kaladze property deals, ISFED on Facebook BS against opposition mayors candidates, Joseph Alexander Smith and his great Georgian runs for Sakrebulo from Sabortalo, Baku Tbilisi Kars Railway gets close, Brink in town, support Rohingya muslims rally, minimum wage, Afghanistan injury, TI 4th report on courts including Cable case, ADB IFC 75 mil loan, Tusheti internet, China Southern flies Tbilisi Beijing, Tbilisi Square in Ankara opens, Elton John cancels, Gogita Karate champ, Irakli Mekvabishvili becomes State Auditor, Zany Batumi, Tbilisi State ranks badly but ranks, photo festival, Chakrulo
TBLPOD7sept2017
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
TBLPOD31aug2017
Gay guys harassed by Batumi cops, Nigerian guy harassed by Tbilisi cops, constitutional discussion collapsed, Borjomi fires contained except Abastumani, chopper crash, Ed Ministry closed town Turkish school on order of Turkish government pretending it wasn’t, railway strike continues, PM talks to Turkmen, Janelidze to Berlin, Neparidze family bribery, Pankisi family dies in Syria, Reporters Without Borders slams Mukhtarli treatment, OSCE Media talks Media Ombudsman recs, more Euro judge appointment drama, pagan alter found near Kaspi unidentified inscription, 17th century album bought, Akhmeteli Metro primped, water to be fixed in Chiatura never ending environmental case not so much, marshutkas buses and trucks get speed governors, wrestling prize, Pachulia gets medal, Chess Champs including Carlsen in Tbilisi, electric car numbers up
TBLPOD24aug2017
Borjomi forrest fire, Abkhaz War 25 year remembrance, Abkhaz Syria trip, corruption and collusion in Sheep export, Osset journalist questioned again, New Yorker article on Trump in Batumi via BTA, Election date 21 Oct, Kukava and Inashvili run, CRRC on Bidzina role, Turk still not extradited but in jail, Moskovi Prospect change maybe, railway hunger strike, GEM employees want their money, noise controls, unregulated Batumi gas station explosion, bad Tskordza road, Narmania on Pekini, too many peaches, WB VP holiday, more Baku flights, 379 asylum seekers, more veggies in schools, Villa Garikula, glacier drones, Bioli and the Swiss, Oscar runoffs, UEFA women, young scientists, more constitution, Ground Truth Reporting Project, me on Misha, BBC on the Black Sea, One Caucasus
TBLPOD6july2017
Pence will visit, R2 says less Geo in Afghan then DefMin says BS, drama on Turkish persecution via extradition, Surkov wants Russian owning Abkhaz land, Russia moves Osset Border half a KM EUMM quiet, Karabakh heats up, Kaladze will run Aleko closer, Manganese crooks get gift from Kutaisi courts, 25 years of relations with various, Eliava fire, Rustaveli Theater and Film school judge illegally on looks, US embassy commissary theft, not serious traffic violation point system, Rustavi rail link to Samgori possibility. GeoStat says GDP growth high, Kuwait Kutaisi flights, star photos, junior wrestlers gold, The Christian Evangelical Protestant Biblical Freedom Church of Georgia, TI on Osneba’s delay of parliamentary change, Swiss study of real trade, prejudice at border against Indians
TBLPOD29june2017
Otsneba pulls a fast one with Parliament changes now in 7 years not next elections, some BS on marriage inequality, Geneva, Mukhtarli, Sebia trip, Batumi European court meeting, Abkhaz crime wave, new Russian law enforcement entity in Abkhazia and S Ossetia, US House pretends US cares about NATO under Trump, Otsneba hires new DC lobbyist Rasky, Kaladze officially runs for mayor, Margvel says elections third week of October or so, drill sergeants, Poti IDP kindergarten, new dairy labeling to end powder in cheese, Shuakhevi dam finished, Shilda gets medals in Krakow, Lelos beat US and Canada loose to Argentina, Georgian stunt bikers in Bollywood movie, new drug law draft, handicapped access, corrupt Gardabani land privatization agency, DCFTA challenges, Jeffries with Azerbaijan ambo in DC, Tarzans Testicles in Abkhazia, Georgia tier one in US trafficking report, 7.7 million books printed in Georgia in 2011
TBLPOD22june2017
Venice comments nice but specific, Kobakhidze wants Pres debate who says bring it on, Usupashvili new party, government continues to flail about Mukhtarli, Geneva, Bordeaux, Luxembourg eastern partnership chat, Senate Russia bill, Maghlaperidze ends American shows, Patriarch meets Mamaladze family and wants monarchy, R2 Udumashvili runs for mayor with Dzveli Natsebi, Justice Min violence against women program, DCTFA dot GE, Congo hostage maybe Uganda, Sokhumi bomb, Istanbul extortion arrests, Tsalenjikha rain, Asian bank roads, trade up but deficit also up, Black Sea fish ok for EU, Borjomi in cans, Baharain flights, Snatch gold, fencing, foreigner ag land ban, wine and vine bill, NUF BS says Jaba, NYT on polyphony, Tillerson plan, bacteriophage
TBLPOD8june2017
Government still embarrassed about giving Mukhtari to Baku, offer wife citizenship, Parliament rushing on constitution amendments, Janelidze in Japan, Abkhaz release Kanjiogli, Senate bill on Russian Influence, Turkish Azeri exercises, North Cauk exercises, new South Ossetian parliamentary head, Serbska goon chums up to South Ossetians, Montenegro joins NATO, Border Guards abduct more Georgians along ABL, Congo pilot hostage video, Pankisi ISIS death, prisoner separation, Svaneti hydros, WB lowers GDP numbers, inflation down, airport numbers up, ad agencies win hammers, Pachulia starts against Cavs, top wrestler, Ajara Stone Age find, Lomsadze on Mukhtarli and hospitality, Karabakh danger, Chiatura, Red Dear, Elton John
TBLPOD1june2017
Georgian government hands dissident Azeri journalist to Baku, Georgian gov arrest Turkish teacher on Turkish government orders, European Georgia party congress, Brink meets PM and Tedo, Bratislava, Mamaladze brother says Ilia says bro is innocent, Free Dems and Republicans join, five judge candidates, no more AKs, Abkhaz release Khanjiogli, Dutch ratify Ukraine EU deal, Gori ID theft, EU in Keda and Khulo, Red-Co in Gudauri, kids clothes shops, Kiwi opera, bank bill, Tskhinvali banks fund Donbas factories, Manchester City
TBLPOD25may2017
Otsneba says screw Venice Commission, Salber sorry but its complicated, Archpriest trial hushed walks out, NATO Spring Session in Tbilisi, Republicans and Free Dems cooperate, Mattis writes letter, Russians set up Command Center in Sokhumi, Kulakhmetovs back, Ukraine EU visa free soon, Ukraine investigates Stalin and Beria for Tatar deportations, Primakov to Russia from Armenian jail, new Kvemo Kartli gov, German detained by Russians in Gali, Tordia Partskhaladze charges, Khakhubia MP son death, GoG detains Turki as gift to Erdogan, Gruzvinprom, Beirut flights, draft dodging criminalized, Gutbrod on air pollution, Tbilisi Veep, Junior Lelos, Shagina book on Euro BS and parties
TBLPOD21july2016
Turk Coup, Batumi Gulen School, Yerevan cop siege, Turk Mtkvari Hydro, Pope Tbilisi plan, Usup said no to Otsneba, Free Dems list, Igor Giorgadze wants back in, Nats call gerrymandering, Georgian killed in Nice, soldiers near home, TI says Varsh buys votes, Margel says more Russian prop, Duma said no wine, Georgians arrested in Turkey for killing cop, mountain climber missing, demonstration against harsh ecstasy sentence, remittences up, EBRD Magti net deal Azot ammonia, fiber soon, Azeri harvesters help, apartments to wounded soldiers, Hebrew guide to Jewish sights, fencer tops, parliament chickens out and smoking continues, Dive job, Open Mic Tbilisi
TBLPOD9june2016
Germany says no visa lib now, Mechiauri new pol party clown squad, Russians move border sign, campaign started 8 June, JamFest mess, new Nat Bank dollar sale, Rustavi2 decision, RAO sells thermos, Kiwi wants to move, BI chats with RFE Geo patiently wait for NATO, Ed min fired, soldier fired for election fight, Misha moves to roadside tent, PM on Abkhaz murderer, OSCE observes, Euro Free Trade Assoc deal, UN res on IDPs, Bundestag genocide res, Abkhaz referendum on early elections, Abashidze says Geos held for spying released, CoE anti traffic group days good job Geo, 32 mil Delta deal with UAE, another woman killed by husband, ex prisoner center opens, child sex in CAR investigation, Pirosmani purchase, Abkhaz win CONIFA, 32 Geos to Olympics, Hualing hospital, Bazaleti hotel, Kiev journo dies on Kazbegi, Kazakhs in town, Tkibuli Zestaponi top cops fired over May Oni mess, Justice House in Borjomi, Mimino sequel, Maroon5, Sophia Loren will show up, Dusheti designer, Const court bill, no Supreme Ct confirmation
TBLPOD2june2016
Kiwi Cafe meat mess, Const Court veto compromise, Samagrelo UNM beaterupers arrested, 20pp of BI re IRA and NDI, Rustavi2 case postponed, IPRM back re murder, Osset vote delayed, Abkhaz football cup, PM in France, NATO Warsaw text re MAP, Geo soldiers to CAR, ABL abduction, commercial attaches to embassies, abstentia verdicts, Russia paid 70k for heart attack, 2030 journo drowns, Isakadze fired, Iran RR, Iare Pekhit Tbilisi Ugly Walk, Robbie Williams Maroon 5, water quality, EIB, little Lelos, volunteer soldier test, lots of Kazakh flights, Zugdidi airport, zoo gets mongoose, IDP houses, hail missiles miss, Drink Like a Georgian, Carlsbad movie, Startup win, divisive marriage law, Moby tweet, Never Trump, Canada drugs
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
TBLPOD24sept2015
Gigi Ugulava out then back in, Judges harassed, Brits warn re PaNOrama, lari hits ’99 low, Afghan death, 2016 growth 3 percent, EUMM head heads north, FM to France, Dima says ed min corruption, to delegations to UN NYC, Jordan MPs, ADB loan, IFC loan, priest slugs flag guy, suicide, Tech Park, US tax deal, MCC on vocations, Gudauri Radisson, anti-hail shell falls on house, shopping fraud arrests, fencer silver, bird watching Batumi, Geo culture house in Yiwu China, Georgian artist in NYC, TBC fonts, Dinola, separated twins, Ushba record, judoka gold, Financial Supervisors named, prosecutor council, constitutional changes 2020, Shishani
TBLPOD30july2015
Sport kids, Geo join EU Rus sanctions, bank supervision mess continues, MEP visit, IMEDI TV on virginity, bad trafficking grade from US, Armenia border shift, Cuba ambo, Iranians visit re admin reform, Armo PM visit, BI soldier donation, shuki hike, Tiniko on Ukraine and Misha, Placebo-gate, Spain ratified association, crime drops says min, MCC 12 mil to vocational training, Basilashvili to 90th in world tennis, new public service hall in Poti, film tax break, Margvel Polish accident, Vazhaoba, Hep C tests, South African weed arrest, Sofia Geo arrest, Lotkini fire, sport venue tax break, chip factory, bike trails on ski slopes, chief prosecutor appointment wrangling, upside down flags, Botso dies, dust levels, GEMfest, Fatboy Slim
TBLPOD16july2015
Russian Army move ABL again and deny it, WTO movement, Euros hate new prosecutor plan, Tiniko more weapon deals, no Tusk trip, Ag min in China, Burjanadze in Moscow, Oil companies fined for collusion, Russia says it won’t pay Georgia European court fines, Kadagidze said cut gov expenses, EU cash, UEFA ticket saga continues 50 by 50, conscription may go in a year, Kaladze gets medal, Vitamin Cube Girl beaten by police and they know nothing, more Geo Azeri soccer anger, Zoo move, Cartu flood cash, US tax evasion deal signed, Kubuleti Muslims harassed, Gldani explosion, Spaniards attacked, Zugdidi cops ignore it and lie, Batumi summer stuff and cube hotel, new limonite brand, Usupashvili says banking regulation will remain with Nat Bank, Gubaz likes Iran, Kvachi by Rayfield out, remittences down 20%, theater for kids