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Yuri Manvelyan editor-in-chief of Epress. Photo: Newcaucasus
The Georgian Border Police has denied entry to three Armenian journalists travelling to Georgia to study the influence of Russian propaganda in the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region. [Read more…]
Georgian FM Mikheil Janelidze (right) greets Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan (mfa.gov.ge)
Armenia’s new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is on his first official visit to Georgia, accompanied by his wife Anna Hakobyan and several ministers. [Read more…]
Beauty salon in Javakheti (Jnews)
Southern Georgia’s Armenians are not well integrated. That men spend nine months of the year in Russia is a problem — it separates them from the rest of their country. [Read more…]
The remains found in an archaeological study of Kumurdo Cathedral will be buried in a tomb outside the church grounds, according to a statement from Georgia’s National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation. The agency says the remains belong to people shot during the Soviet period. [Read more…]
Clashes between locals and police in a village in southern Georgia have left several people injured, including police. [Read more…]
Three young people from the village of Khaveti, in southern Georgia’s Akhalkalaki Municipality, work in the village of Bavra as seasonal workers. Their main tool is a horse, which they use to till the potato beds in the fields of Bavra.
(Luba Giorgadze/Samkhretis Karibche)
A number of Meskhetian farmers have had to store their harvests, worth thousands of laris to them, at home to rot, or to feed the cattle. [Read more…]
Farmers from southern Georgia’s historic Meskheti region are struggling to plant crops this spring. Meskhetian farmers complain of increased prices on fuel and equipment and say that this year they will plant a much smaller area than last year. [Read more…]
People from Akhalkalaki Municipality complain about their local ambulance service; they say that it is not fast enough. The manager of the service counters that the reason is a shortage of doctors and crews. [Read more…]
