Georgia News Digest - July 31, 2011

Ex-Soviet Georgia seeks pop star glamour

AFP
TBILISI — Ex-Soviet Georgia may not appear the most glamorous destination, but officials hope that pop stars like Sting, Enrique Iglesias and Macy Gray can add showbiz chic to their bid to attract tourists. Although critics have mocked efforts to use ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 30, 2011

In Georgia, a Spy Case and a National Rorschach Test

New York Times
GIORGI ABDALADZE By ELLEN BARRY TBILISI, Georgia — Last week, several days after the photographer Giorgi Abdaladze confessed to selling classified documents to Russia's foreign intelligence service, he was released without being sentenced to a prison ...
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New York Times




Freight Train Derails Outside Tbilisi

Civil Georgia
She said that the freight train was carrying cargo belonging to various firms, including from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The derailment will cause at least two hour delays in schedule of passenger trains, planning to head from Tbilisi to the ...
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Civil Georgia




SOCAR opens new gas stations in Georgia

Trend News Agency
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) owns SOCAR Energy Georgia. One station was opened in the Kakheti region and the other two were opened in Tbilisi, the report reads. Today, the company owns 74 filing stations in Georgia. ...
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Trend News Agency




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Georgia News Digest - July 29, 2011

Georgia will try dissident in abstentia UPI.com TBILISI, Georgia, July 29 (UPI) -- Political activist Badri Bitsadze will be tried in absentia on charges of organizing attacks on police in Georgia, his lawyer said. Bitsadze, husband of Georgian opposition leader Nino Burdzhanadze, ... See all stories on this topic » Tbilisi comments on Ankvab's statement on "readiness for dialogue" Messenger.ge Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Georgia's Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said "any constructive proposals" on conflict resolution are acceptable for Tbilisi. "Any proposals related to dialogue and conflict resolution and primarily related ... See all stories on this topic » Messenger.ge Bidding for Tbilisi's landmark TV Tower is on Messenger.ge Opposition parties which foresee obstacles for independent media in Georgia also protested on Thursday. Considering the situation on the media market and political system in Georgia, Giorgi Targamadze--Chairman of Christian-Democratic Movement--said ... See all stories on this topic » Embassies » Tbilisi In Georgia Embassy Republic of Bulgaria In Georgia Mr. Ivailo Brazitsov Address: 61, D. Agmashenebeli Ave. Tbilisi Georgia Phone: +995-32-2-910-194 +995-32-2-910-195 ... www.tbilisiingeorgia.com/embassies/

Georgia News Digest - July 22, 2011

Georgian photographers released on spy charges

The Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Three Georgian photographers were found guilty Friday of spying for Russia but were released from court after receiving suspended sentences in a 45-minute trial. Irakli Gedenidze, a personal photographer of the Georgian ...
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Georgia to ask suspended sentence for spy suspects

Forbes
AP , 07.22.11, 07:56 AM EDT TBILISI, Georgia -- Prosecutors in the former Soviet republic of Georgia are going to ask for suspended sentences for three Georgian photographers charged with spying for Russia. A personal photographer of the Georgian ...
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IFC Trains Georgian Banks to Enhance Liquidity Management and Improve Efficiency

The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- Tbilisi , Georgia, July 18, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is training Georgian bankers in specific aspects of risk management to help make the banking system more stable and efficient. IFC held training sessions on July ...
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Georgian photographers released on spy charges

Forbes
AP , 07.22.11, 09:52 AM EDT TBILISI, Georgia -- Three Georgian photographers have been found guilty of spying for Russia but given suspended sentences and released after a 15-minute trial. A personal photographer of the Georgian president, ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 21, 2011

Reds believe they've got the steel to cause famous upset

South Wales Evening Post
RETURNING top-scorer Rhys Griffiths insists Llanelli head to the 55000-capacity Boris Paichadze Stadium tonight confident of springing a jaw-dropping European shock against Dinamo Tbilisi. The Reds travel to Georgia with a slender 2-1 advantage after ...
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Freedom of Expression Organisations Addressing President of Georgia

The FINANCIAL
2011 -- Brussels, Belgium -- Freedom of expression organisations are seriously concerned about the arrest of a group of photo-correspondents in Georgia. Four photojournalists were arrested in Tbilisi on 7 July on allegations of "spying on behalf of ...
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The Street Shoe Project: Stops in Vanadzor and Tbilisi

ianyan magazine
... I'm what about you. why don't you look yourself in the mirror and you will see your The Street Shoe Project has been on the road, making stops in Northern Armenia in the town of Vanadzor (Kirovakan) and even crossing borders to Tbilisi, Georgia. ...
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Georgia will never interfere in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict -former Ambassador

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
TBILISI. – "Georgia will never be able to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh issue behind Armenia and Azerbaijan. Neither Russia, nor Unites States nor Western Europe will be able to do so. The governments and peoples of the two states must resolve the conflict. ...
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Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am



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DigitalJournal.com
Tbilisi - Before the dawn of civilization, a wine culture emerged in what is now Georgia. East of Europe, west of Asia, directly on the Silk Road, that culture spread to Europe and the New World. Georgian red wines are now poised to attract world-wide ...
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Vaduz and Dinamo rise to the occasion

UEFA.com
However, Llanelli AFC will have no fond memories of their trip to Georgia; 2-1 up from their first leg against FC Dinamo Tbilisi, they lost 5-0 away to the side that lifted the 1980/81 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Dinamo will visit KR Reykjavík next week, ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 20, 2011

Georgia Cuts Main Rate to 7.75 Percent as Inflation Slows

Bloomberg
By Helena Bedwell - Wed Jul 20 14:37:06 GMT 2011 Georgia's central bank cut its refinancing rate by 25 basis points after inflation slowed in June. The benchmark refinancing rate was lowered to 7.75 percent from 8 percent, the Tbilisi-based bank said ...
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Prices on minibuses still increasing in Tbilisi

Messenger.ge
As Lortkipanidze explained to The Messenger abolition of anti-monopoly service has encouraged so-called elite corruption in Georgia to intensify their illegal activities. Intending to express wide scale protest against the changes in the transport ...
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Messenger.ge

Georgia News Digest - July 19, 2011

Third Georgian photographer 'confesses to spying'

AsiaOne
TBILISI - The alleged ringleader of three Georgian photojournalists accused of spying for enemy Russia has confessed to involvement in espionage, both officials and his lawyer said on Tuesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, an official at ...
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AsiaOne



The News in Brief

Messenger.ge
The activists of FEMEN consider that the disruption of the protest confirmed the doubts of the international society, that Tbilisi has media phobia. "By going against journalists of a foreign country, diplomatic mission representatives expressed their ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 18, 2011

Will Ukraine join EU?

The Voice of Russia
In the course of his recent visit to Tbilisi, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko said that Kiev remains supportive of the territorial integrity of Georgia and does not recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. ...
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The Voice of Russia



Demonstrators, photographers attacked at Georgian embassy

Monsters and Critics.com
Tbilisi/Kiev - A group of topless demonstrators and news photographers taking their pictures were kicked and punched by a man leaving the Georgian embassy on Monday, as a media scandal in the Caucasian republic widened. Three members of the Ukrainian ...
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ICEM, ILO Conduct Mine Safety Seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia

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Georgia News Digest - July 16, 2011

Tbilisi protests against the visit of Russian Defense Minister to Abkhazia

News.Az
In breach of these commitments, Russia is intensively engaged in a military build-up in Georgia's occupied territories. This includes the accelerated construction of military bases, the concentration of military contingents (including divisions of both ...
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News.Az



Llanelli looking for a dynamic response

South Wales Evening Post
Llanelli recorded a result that ranks among their greatest ever when they beat renowned European outfit Tbilisi 2-1 in the first leg of their second qualifying round match at Parc y Scarlets on Thursday. Completing the job in Georgia would be their ...

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Georgia News Digest - July 15, 2011

Georgia Punishes Police Over Protest Violence

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Riot police beat opposition activists at an antipresidential rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi on May 26. Authorities in Georgia say they have fired or disciplined several police officers accused of using excessive force at an ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty



Georgian, Ukrainian FMs Meet in Tbilisi

Civil Georgia
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Konstantine Grishchenko in Tbilisi that the latter's visit to Georgia "was very timely and necessary." Speaking with journalists after the meeting Vashadze said ...
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Kyiv, Tbilisi to intensify cooperation in trade and economic sector

Kyiv Post
Ukraine and Georgia have agreed to intensify cooperation in trade and economic relations by establishing the systematic work of an intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation, which is to meet this autumn, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's ...
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Air travel provides a unique test for new parents and children

The National
Georgia was all of eight and a half weeks when she made her first flight. It was aboard a rickety Aeroflot plane to Moscow from Tbilisi, where my wife and I had adopted her. She was in our laps for that flight, squirming, fussing, crying. ...
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Three Armenians convicted in Georgia

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
TBILISI. – City court of Tbilisi finished hearings of a criminal case of three citizens of Armenia. Armen Sargsyan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, and Karen Karapetyan were convicted for six years of imprisonment for using false plastic cards, ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 14, 2011

Ukrainian foreign minister to meet with Georgia's President Saakashvili in Tbilisi

Interfax
On Thursday evening, Hryschenko will meet with the Georgian president and the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia in Tbilisi. On Friday, the Ukrainian foreign minister will meet with his Georgian counterpart Grigol Vashadze. ...
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Interfax




Georgia Asks Friends To Stop Calling It 'Gruzia'

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A woman walks past a wall decorated with Georgia's national flags in the center of Tbilisi. By Jimsher Rekhviashvili The country known in the West as Georgia in fact has many names -- "Sakartvelo" in Georgian, "Gurjistan" in Turkish, and "Vrastan" in ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty



Georgia rejects criticism of 'spy photographers' case

Pakistan Daily Times
TBILISI: Georgian officials on Wednesday dismissed concerns about the case of three photojournalists charged with spying for enemy Russia, saying they had real evidence of links to Moscow's espionage services. "Even one single case that is not backed ...
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Too Close for Comfort

New York Times (blog)
By KERRI MACDONALD Daro Sulakauri , 26, is a freelance photographer in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2006. She was chosen by Photo District News as one 30 new and emerging photographers to watch in 2011 ...
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New York Times (blog)




Lavrov: Georgia, Russia WTO Deal 'Much Doable'

Civil Georgia
Asked about Tbilisi's demand for international monitoring of dispute border and whether he believed that WTO-related issue could be resolved with Georgia, Lavrov responded: "If we all concentrate on WTO rules and do not go beyond those rules into some ...
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Civil Georgia




IFC Helps Bring Mobile Financial Services to Rural Georgia and Small Farmers

Trend News Agency
"In less than six months MobiPay has secured over 100000 customers, 1500 merchants and 150 Cash Agent locations in the Tbilisi area of Georgia," said Allen Gilstrap, OpenRevolution CEO. "MobiPay provides a wide range of flexible and convenient payment ...
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Trend News Agency




Religious rage: Armenians in Georgia feel tension amid Orthodox protests

ArmeniaNow.com
Armenians in Georgia, and in particular in capital Tbilisi, lived through several tense days when the situation could even become dangerous for them as thousands of people took to the streets to protest the parliamentary resolution largely viewed as ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 13, 2011

Georgia pledges transparency in latest spy trial

Kyiv Post
Nestan Neidze, left, wife of freelance photographer Giorgi Abdaladze holds a poster during a picket outside Georgian Interior Ministry in Tbilisi on July 11, 2011. AP Photo/Mzia Saganelidze, pool TBILISI, (Reuters) - Georgia pledged on Wednesday to ...
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Georgian Church calls for calm despite irritation at 'hasty' law

Messenger.ge
Tbilisi Mayor, Gigi Ugulava welcomed the Patriarchate's decision, "the rights of the Georgian Church will not be limited by the law." He has also called on all members for the society to restrain from making xenophobic statements, as such statements ...
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Messenger.ge




Transparency Pledged in Photographers' Trial

Civil Georgia
... journalists gathered outside the Interior Ministry building in Tbilisi outskirts, July 13. Photo: Guram Muradov/Civil.ge Except of "small part", the entire trial into the arrested photojournalists' case, charged with espionage in favor of Georgia, ...
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Civil Georgia




Tbilisi to host Azerbaijani-Armenian joint journalist mission

Trend News Agency
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) will hold a joint Azerbaijani-Armenian journalist mission in Georgia on July 13-14 under the Neighbors Project. The Institute told Trend that this project focuses on issues affecting ethnic Armenian and ...
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Trend News Agency



Georgia Imports Wheat

The Moscow Times
TBILISI — Georgian buyers resumed negotiations with Russian grain sellers for the purchase of wheat right after Russia lifted its grain export ban, Levan Silagava, head of Georgia's wheat growers association, said Tuesday. "At the beginning of July, ...
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Independent Association of Georgian Journalists Asks for Release of Detained ...

The FINANCIAL
IAGJ, Tbilisi . Independent Association of Georgian Journalists, member of IFJ is expressing its deep concern over detention of prominent photo-reporters in Tbilisi . At 2 am night on July 7, in Tbilisi , representatives of security services arrested ...
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Georgian Chief Negotiator on Geneva Talks

Civil Georgia
... dead-end" because of Russia's "terror campaign" against Georgia, said Giga Bokeria, secretary of Georgia's National Security Council (NSC), and also added that despite few results from the Geneva process, Tbilisi was in favor of its continuation. ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 12, 2011

Georgian journalist says he spied for Russia

Kyiv Post
Georgian journalists blind-fold themselves before forming a human chain around the Interior Ministry office in Tbilisi, Georgia Friday, July 8, 2011. The non-governmental Center for Human Rights in Tbilisi on Friday said recent media detentions were an ...
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ISCE to hold economic conference in Tbilisi

Messenger.ge
By Messenger Staff The summer session of the OSCE parliamentary assembly has taken a decision to hold the economic conference of the organization in Tbilisi. This will be the first economic conference held in Georgia in the history of the OSCE. ...
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Messenger.ge



Georgia: Fight Against HIV/AIDS Brings Georgians, Abkhaz Together

EurasiaNet
The Tbilisi-based Center for Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology reports that since 2006, it has diagnosed and treated 198 residents of Abkhazia with HIV/AIDS. "They receive all the same treatment anyone in Georgia would receive," said ...
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Georgian Church offended by not being consulted about new law

Interfax-Religion
Tbilisi, July 12, Interfax - The Georgian Orthodox Church has criticized Georgia's government and parliament for failing to consult the church's hierarchy before bringing out a recent law on the conferment of legal entity status on religious ...
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Llanelli boss Legg missing key men for Tbilisi showdown

WalesOnline
The first leg at Parc y Scarlets is to be shown live on S4C with the return in Georgia next Thursday. Two other Welsh clubs are in European action this week. The New Saints play Danish club FC Midtjylland with the first leg at Park Hall, ...
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) – Three photojournalists arrested in Georgia this week have been charged with espionage, the lawyer for one of them said Saturday. ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 11, 2011

No incident occurred between Georgians and Armenians in Tbilisi

PanARMENIAN.Net
Net - For the last three days, a range of Armenian and Georgian social networks circulated reports on the incident in Tbilisi, Georgia, during which about 10 Georgian teenagers beat 3 Armenians of the same age. It was noted that this was executed by ...
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Gulf Has Managed to Occupy 20% of the Local Fuel Retail Market

The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- 15 million litres of fuel for retail as well as wholesales, 20% of the local market, up to 250 corporate clients and 30 companies for wholesale, these are the results since Gulf Georgia Petroleum opened its first AGS in Tbilisi two ...
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The FINANCIAL


Have a Car? Make it a TAXI!

The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- The vast majority of cars, almost every other one, are now running as taxis in Tbilisi and more importantly - without any regulations enforced on them. There are only 43 official taxi service companies in Georgia at the moment whilst ...
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The FINANCIAL



A Bachelor's degree and knowledge of the English language are required at most ...

The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- Having a Bachelor's degree is the most common obligatory requirement from recruiters when it comes to employees, according to human resource managers in Tbilisi interviewed by The FINANCIAL. For middle and higher management positions ...
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The FINANCIAL



ISET Graduation Ceremony

Messenger.ge
On July 9 Tbilisi State University International School of Economy (ISET) held a graduation ceremony at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel. Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Dimitri Shashkini, Rector of Tbilisi State University Aleksandre Kvitashvili ...
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American Steak Competing with Georgian Cuisine

The FINANCIAL
The FINANCIAL -- More and more restaurants in Tbilisi are adding American Steak to their menus. It has become one of the most demanded dishes, restaurants owners say. "We offer a real American steak," said Tamar Vasadze, Owner of Oval, the five star ...
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The FINANCIAL




Dying for a Tan

The FINANCIAL
"Sun rays and exposure to UV radiation is necessary for the production of vitamin D in the skin," said Raibul Todua, Head of the Skin, Soft Tissues and Bone Tumours Department at Tbilisi Cancer Centre. "The first artificial indoor tanning was used in ...
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The FINANCIAL


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Georgia News Digest - July 10, 2011

Georgian journalist says he spied for Russia

Washington Times
By Misha Dzhindzhikhashvli AP TBILISI, GEORGIA | The personal photographer for the Georgian president was shown on television Saturday confessing to supplying a colleague with secret information that was then sent to a Russian secret service. ...
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Washington Times



One Israeli dies, 13 injured in minibus crash in Georgia

Jerusalem Post
One Israeli woman was killed and 13 were injured in a head-on-collision involving their minibus and a truck in northern Georgia, some 250 kilometers north of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The accident occurred near the Georgian city of Kutaisi. ...
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Protest March Against Law on Religious Minorities Status

Civil Georgia
Photo: Guram Muradov/Civil.ge Few thousand of people, led by priests from the Georgian Orthodox Church, marched for second day in Tbilisi on Sunday to protest against legislative amendments on legal status of religious minorities in Georgia. ...
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Civil Georgia



Close-Up: Why Georgia's national costume is back in vogue

BBC News
For many it symbolises the country's proud past and resistance to its occupation. Georgian designers are now producing modern versions of the Chokha, including a controversial version for women. Damien McGuinness has been to the capital Tbilisi to find ...
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BBC News



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Georgia News Digest - July 9, 2011

3 Georgian photographers charged as spies

UPI.com
TBILISI, Georgia, July 9 (UPI) -- Three Georgian photographers, including one working for President Mikheil Saakashvili, collaborated with Russian intelligence, Georgian authorities said. The photographers were arrested Thursday, Russian news agency ...
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Accused of Illegal Turnover of Radioactive Materials

Hetq Online
The mentioned radioactive material was taken to Tbilisi, Georgia on March 11, 2010 across the Armenian Customs border and on the same day H. Ohanyan and S. Tonoyan tried to sell it to the citizen of Georgia Zaza Kivkivadze but they were found by the ...
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Hetq Online



Armenian Church Hails Georgia's Religious Minorities Law

Spero News
Depite fierce opposition from the leadership of the Georgian Orthodox Church and some political factions, pro-government lawmakers in Tbilisi on July 5 voted in accelerated second- and third-reading procedures to approve an amendment to the civil code ...
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Georgia News Digest - July 7, 2011

Georgia, Looking for Spies, Arrests Photographers

New York Times
By MZIA KUPUNIA TBILISI, Georgia — Police officers working on a counterespionage campaign arrested a group of photographers on Thursday that included the president's personal photographer and two working for Western news services, The Associated Press ...
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NATO-Georgia conference to be held in Tbilisi

Trend News Agency
A NATO-Georgia joint conference on "New Security Challenges" will be held in Tbilisi from July 7-8. The purpose of this conference, supported by the NATO security program and "Science for Peace" program, is to bring together experts, scientific circles ...
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Trend News Agency




Georgian president granted legal status to Armenian Church

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
TBILISI. - President of Georgia Michael Saakashvili signed amendments to the Civil Code that grants legal status for certain religious organizations. "The document was received yesterday an president signed it the same day," the spokesperson of ...
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Azerbaijan and Georgia: Rival Groups Seek to Speak for Georgia's Muslims

EurasiaNet
Since 1996, the Caucasus Muslim Board, a body set up in 1937 with semi-official links to the Azerbaijani government, has operated an office in Tbilisi, ostensibly to advocate the interests of Muslims in Georgia. But in mid-May, an All-Georgia Muslim ...
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Cymat Receives Major Cladding Order for Alusion Panels

Azom.com
The architectural product would be used to clad a uniquely shaped building in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi. The cladding would cover an area of 12000 m 2 in a multifunctional complex. The shape of the outwardly sloping building would make it distinct ...
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