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Is Georgia seeing a ‘colour revolution’?

The Spectator 13 Mar 2023
Over the last few years EU-provided development funds for Georgia have found their way into the pockets of Russian businesses – for instance a $50 million European Bank of Reconstruction and Development-funded contract to provide rolling stock for Tbilisi’s Soviet-built metro system went to Russia’s Metrovagonmash in 2021.
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Teenager threatened with being killed just because he wore his shirt unbuttoned

Metro UK 08 Nov 2022
A queer teen has detailed the moment men threatened to kill him in Tbilisi, Georgia — all because he dared to wear his shirt ‘unbuttoned’ ... Ablotia told Metro.co.uk ... ‘I’m too shaken to take the bus or the Metro now,’ he added ... Tamaz Sozashvili, a co-founder of Tbilisi Pride, told Metro.co.uk that the riots remain the ‘scariest day of my life’.
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A True Local’s Neighborhood in One of the World’s Trendiest Destinations

The Daily Beast 23 Jul 2022
No other Tbilisi neighborhood says spring better than my Vera ... Vera is one of Tbilisi’s oldest districts, first documented in the 13th century ... Rainer Kaufmann, a bold German journalist smitten with the country during the Soviet period, opened the place in 1995, when Tbilisi was still smoldering from civil war.
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Georgians Grudgingly Accept Growing Russian Presence

Moscow Times 04 Jul 2022
There is hardly a neighbor in his suburban Tbilisi apartment building who has not received this gift since Semyonov moved to Georgia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ... Tbilisi was covered in late-spring snow, and anti-Russia messages were everywhere ... But Tbilisi did not believe in tears.
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Why Georgia is going mad for Ukraine

The Spectator 02 Jun 2022
Georgia seems to have gone Ukraine crazy since the outbreak of war in February. Taxi drivers have the Ukrainian flag on their dashboards ... Medicines come in blue and yellow bags. There are Ukrainian-coloured scooters for hire in Tbilisi and written on the huge city metro telescreens are the words ‘Be Brave like Ukraine’ ... However, another reads ... .
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‘Moscow for a week’: Georgia’s Soviet-era frequent flyers

Al Jazeera 26 Dec 2021
Tbilisi, Georgia – In the 1980s, when Manana Natchkebia was in her twenties and worked in an aeronautical factory in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, she would relish her holidays to Moscow ... Unveiled in 2011 near the Avlabari metro station in Tbilisi, a sculpture dedicated to Mimino features Valiko and two other characters.
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Georgia: Saakashvili supporters hold rallies in Tbilisi

Ruptly 12 Nov 2021
Members of Georgia's two opposition parties held a protest at the Didube and 300 Aragveli metro stations in Tbilisi on Friday in support of Mikheil Saakashvili, the country's ex-president ... .
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Georgia PM declares curfew to halt coronavirus spread

The Star 30 Mar 2020
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia will impose a curfew ...
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Georgia PM declares curfew starting Tuesday to halt coronavirus spread

Canada Dot Com 30 Mar 2020
TBILISI — Georgia will impose an overnight curfew, close its public transport, including metro system, and ban gatherings of more than three people from Tuesday to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said on Monday.
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Double-decker bus roof torn clean off in bridge crash

The Independent 08 Feb 2020
It might be easy to lay out a clear metro map when there are only 22 stations to mark, but the Tbilisi Metro still deserves credit for doing so in such a satisfying way ... It might be easy to lay out a clear metro map when there are only 22 stations to mark, but the Tbilisi Metro still deserves credit for doing so in such a satisfying way.
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After years of neoliberalism, Georgia’s workers have forgotten what it means to win

Open Democracy 02 Dec 2019
Support rally outside Rustaveli Metro Station in Tbilisi, during 2018 metro workers' strike ... In summer 2018, the Ertoba2013 union, which organises Tbilisi’s metro workers, shut down the Georgian capital for several days, before the city municipality eventually met its demands ... But the metro workers came to the 8 March event too.
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Tracking back

The Independent 08 Sep 2019
It might be easy to lay out a clear metro map when there are only 22 stations to mark, but the Tbilisi Metro still deserves credit for doing so in such a satisfying fashion ... It might be easy to lay out a clear metro map when there are only 22 stations to mark, but the Tbilisi Metro still deserves credit for doing so in such a satisfying fashion.
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Putin orders Russian tourists out of Georgia after anti-Russia protests in Tbilisi

EurasiaNet 22 Jun 2019
Russian-speaking tourists are ubiquitous in Tbilisi, and while the government has systematically removed the Soviet-legacy Russian-language signs from streets, the metro, and other public spaces, the Russian language is again highly visible in the restaurants, bars, and other enterprises catering to tourists.
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Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd avoids fast track extradition to UK

Metro UK 29 Jan 2019
CJack Shepherd, who went on the run last year after killing a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames, attends court hearing in Tbilisi, Georgia today (Picture ... He surrendered himself at a police station in the nation’s capital Tbilisi on Wednesday last week. Got a story for Metro.co.uk?.
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Last Days of the Gulag

CounterPunch 25 Jan 2019
In 1978, soon after Levan’s marriage, when he was working “in the Greek and Roman library” in Tbilisi, he purchased his first typewriter “a Ukraine-2, near the metro station named after Lenin, in what we called a ‘New’ Department Store, where they asked to see my passport, took a ...

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