Sunday, December 14, 2025

Sleazy 90s transition – Paul Manning on "Shevardnadze Era" in Georgia

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Khevsur girls – girls in the village of Khakhmati, Khevsureti in 2002 (Paul Manning)

TBILISI, DFWatch–When I heard Paul Manning, an anthropologist from Trent University (Canada) is visiting Tbilisi, I knew I had to meet him. Not only because of his papers on  toasts and supra culture, cartoons during the Rose Revolution, notion of terror in Pankisi,

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Saudi crown prince donates money to Tbilisi flood victims

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Abdulaziz al Saud with PM Garibashvili. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The crown prince of Saudi Arabia is donating USD 300,000 to assist the victims of the June 14 flood in Tbilisi.

Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who visited Georgia a few weeks ago, wrote in a letter to the prime minister that they carefully

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