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In pictures | Tbilisi’s lemon vendors — the hardships of selling lemons to survive

4 February 2019 by Tamuna Chkareuli

Small kiosks also sell lemons along with other goods. ‘These ones have been hanging here for two weeks’, the owner said. (Tamuna Chkareuli / OC Media)

Selling lemons in the streets at ₾1 ($0.38) for a bag of 5, Tbilisi’s lemon vendors — almost exclu­sive­ly elderly women — struggle to scrape out a living. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Feature Stories, Labour, Top Tagged With: elderly people, elderly poverty, georgia, lemons, poverty, street vendors, tbilisi

Opinion | Georgia’s pension reforms do nothing for most Georgians

14 December 2018 by Tornike Chivadze

(Tamuna Chkareuli/OC Media)

Despite the good inten­tions of the gov­ern­ment, Georgia’s pension reforms are doomed to failure. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: elderly people, georgia, pension reform, pensions, poverty

‘People’s goodwill is my only hope for survival’ — elderly poverty in Georgia

25 September 2018 by Tamuna Chkareuli

Anzor and Giorgi Non­i­ashvili (Tamuna Chkareuli/OC Media)

Strug­gling to make ends meet, many Georgian pen­sion­ers end up relying on donations from charities or support from relatives or kind neigh­bours. Places in care homes are few and far between and even the state-run Soviet-era insti­tu­tions are no longer taking in residents. The gov­ern­ment is set to introduce a new pension con­tri­bu­tion scheme but critics argue it doesn’t go far enough. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: elderly, elderly people, georgia, katarzisi, pension, pension reform, poverty

Voice from Guria | ‘The prices for medicines are insane; isn’t this repression?’

10 May 2018 by Women of Georgia

Rusudan Chelidze (Nino Baidauri / Women of Georgia)

Rusudan Chelidze, 80, Zemo Bakhvi, Guria

 ‘You cannot really call what we went through back then childhood. There were only two of us. We had no one else out there in the whole world.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: elderly people, georgia, guria, old woman, political repression, poverty, soviet union, women, women of georgia, women's rights

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In pictures |  Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless

In pictures | Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless

Armine Avetisyan

There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets.

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Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

‘My Soviet childhood was very happy. I thought that my whole life would be like a fairy tale. But the fairy tale ended abruptly.’

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

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Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

Javid Agha

In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature.

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