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Review | Stalin’s Cola — the story of Georgia’s famous Lagidze lemonades
In his latest documentary, award-winning director Stefan Tolz examines Georgia’s premier lemonade company — and why it failed to beat Coca-Cola.
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Ingushetia
Ingush law banning glorification of Stalin’s memory secretly withdrawn from consideration
Historian Ibragim Kostoev reported that the law was secretly withdrawn from consideration eight years ago.
Reviews
Review | The Northeast Winds and Goodnight, Mister Stalin — two films on Gori, Stalin, and loss
These two documentaries set in Stalin’s home of Gori offer two tonally different reflections on his enduring cult of personality in modern Georgia.
Daghestan
The Daghestani city of Kaspiysk renames square in honour of Joseph Stalin
The initiators of the renaming noted that if it were not for Stalin, the city of Kaspiysk would not exist.
South Ossetia
Stalin monument vandalised in Tskhinvali one month after installation
Unknown individuals have vandalised a monument to Joseph Stalin only a month after it had been erected.
Joseph Stalin
Balkar man seeks to hold Stalin criminally responsible for Soviet deportations
A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria has requested that the Russian authorities investigate Joseph Stalin’s deportation of North Caucasians in the 1940s as a crime. Oleg Kelemetov, a Balkar man from Kabardino-Balkaria, requested that Russia’s Investigative Committee investigate the Soviet Union’s Defence Committee’s deportations of populations as a crime and a violation of the country’s constitution. Kommersant reported that Kelemetov seeks to hold specific senior Soviet officials criminally res
Georgia
Georgian speaker accuses USAID of ‘financing religious intolerance’
The speaker of the Georgian parliament has criticised the US aid agency, USAID, for funding ‘propaganda against the Georgian Church’ and ‘financing religious intolerance’. On Saturday, Shalva Papuashvili also accused ‘so-called civil activists’ and ‘media belonging to the [opposition parties United] National Movement and Lelo’ of attacking the Georgian Orthodox Church. Papuashvili was referring to criticism of the Church for its handling of a scandal surrounding an icon that featured Jose
