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Search | 27 Articles

Klimenti Pachuashvili

Bad debt to “disappear” in Georgia

A near total bailout of delinquent loans brings relief to many Georgians, in spite of criticisms that it was a vote-buying scheme.
Giorgi Lomsadze Dec 20, 2018
Mindeli mine site in Tkibuli

Georgian coal town longs for Chinese rescue

Locals need the jobs; environmentalists and transparency activists are aghast.
Nicholas Muller Nov 13, 2018
Cutting ties: Berdymukhamedov and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Belarusian Embassy in Ashgabat in March 2017. (Photo: Turkmenistan state news agency)

Turkmenistan threatens Belarusian company with international arbitration

A Belarusian-built potash plant is producing way less than it should.
Nov 6, 2018
The upper part of Ushguli

Perspectives | Tourism sustains, and threatens, Georgia’s highland heritage

Tales of an authentic society living at the edge of time fail to account for higher living standards in the Soviet heyday.
A visual commentary by Stefan Applis Nov 2, 2018
marijuana plant

Marijuana exports become the talk of Georgia's presidential campaign

The opposition claims that kingmaker Bidzina Ivanishvili is aiming to be “Georgia's Pablo Escobar.”
Giorgi Lomsadze Oct 19, 2018
plastic bag

Georgia bans plastic bags, marking the end of an era

In the Soviet Union, plastic bags were hallmarks of modernity.
Giorgi Lomsadze Oct 8, 2018
Pripyat River

Belarus: Eco-protestors target proposed shipping route through Ukraine and Poland

The EU and multilateral lenders are studying the project.
Tom Allan Sep 5, 2018
Turkish construction in Kyrgyzstan

Turkish lira casts pall over Caucasus and Central Asia

In the Caucasus and Central Asia, the lira’s rot could spread
Maximilian Hess Aug 21, 2018
Bank of Georgia headquarters in Tbilisi. (Rob Schofield via Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Georgia’s predatory lenders are punishing the poor

Georgian indebtedness has reached crisis proportions. And lenders take a scant, if any, look at customers’ creditworthiness.
Giorgi Lomsadze Aug 15, 2018
Two women from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, Nato Kavtarashvili and Mediko Machalikashvili, winning a Georgian cooking show, "My Cuisine Rules."

Pankisi women win top prize in Georgian cooking show

The women said they entered the contest to try to show Georgians more about their region, which in recent years has been stereotyped as a hotbed of Islamist radicalism.
Bradley Jardine Aug 10, 2018
A tired shopper rests while waiting to ship her parcels.

Istanbul's storied 'suitcase trade' with ex-USSR remains resilient despite downturn

The trade is one of the strongest links between Istanbul and the former Soviet world.
Paul Benjamin Osterlund, Photos by Hilaneh Mahmoudi Aug 9, 2018
Kars railway station in eastern Turkey

With new railway, Turkey seeks to isolate Armenia and integrate Azerbaijan

Kars sees itself as the hub for one of the region’s most ambitious infrastructure projects
Bradley Jardine Jun 29, 2018
grapes

Will there be wine on Mars?

Georgia prepares its grapes for an interplanetary mission
Giorgi Lomsadze Jun 26, 2018
A government building in Kutaisi that’s never been used. (All photos by Joshua Kucera)

With loss of parliament, Georgia's second city prepares for a downgrade

Prospective changes would reverse the previous government's efforts to share with Kutaisi some of the development that booming Tbilisi has enjoyed.
Joshua Kucera Jun 21, 2018
bridge

Report details increasing trade between Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia

Political disputes still continue to hinder efforts to formalize the trade, however, the International Crisis Group found.
Joshua Kucera May 24, 2018

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