#georgia country

[lifedairy]

I found this in my camera roll. I remember saving this from reddit, it’s apparently a list of names. Could someone translate or explain what this means? გმადლობთ!

[abwwia]

Esma Oniani (1938 – 1999)

Esma Oniani (20 July 1938 – 31 January 1999) was a Georgian poet, essayist, and painter. via Wikipedia / ესმა ონიანი #PalianSHOW

[anam-cara]

Tbilisi, 2023

[ingeorgiatravel]

Exploring Tbilisi: A Guide to Georgia's Stunning Capital City

Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, is a hidden gem in the Caucasus region. Nestled between the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, Tbilisi is a city that blends the old and the new, the traditional and the modern. From its ancient history and rich cultural heritage to its vibrant nightlife and trendy cafes, Tbilisi has something for everyone.

The Unique Architecture of Tbilisi

The first thing you'll notice when you arrive in Tbilisi is its unique architecture. The city is a mix of old and new, with towering Soviet-era buildings standing alongside charming cobblestone streets and colorful Georgian houses. One of the most iconic landmarks in Tbilisi is the Narikala Fortress, which offers stunning views over the city.

But Tbilisi's architecture goes beyond its landmarks. The city is filled with beautiful buildings and streets that are worth exploring. For example, the Old Town is a must-see for anyone interested in Tbilisi's history. Here, you'll find narrow streets, cobblestone alleys, and colorful buildings that transport you back in time.

Tbilisi's Rich Cultural Heritage

Tbilisi is more than just its architecture. The city is known for its rich cultural heritage, with a variety of museums, galleries, and theaters showcasing Georgian art and history. The Georgian National Museum, for example, is home to an impressive collection of Georgian artifacts, including ancient gold jewelry and medieval manuscripts.

But Tbilisi's cultural heritage goes beyond its museums and galleries. The city is also home to a number of historical and cultural landmarks, such as the Sioni Cathedral and the Metekhi Church, both of which date back to the 13th century. And for a more modern cultural experience, you can visit the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater, which hosts regular performances of classical music and ballet.

The Delicious Cuisine of Tbilisi

Of course, no trip to Tbilisi would be complete without trying some of the local cuisine. Georgian food is hearty and delicious, with dishes like khinkali (meat dumplings), khachapuri (cheese-filled bread), and chakapuli (lamb stew) being just a few of the many local specialties. And of course, you can't leave Tbilisi without trying some of the local wine, which is some of the best in the world.

In Tbilisi, you'll find a wide range of restaurants and cafes that serve Georgian cuisine, as well as other international dishes. Whether you're looking for a fine dining experience or a more casual meal, you'll be able to find something that suits your tastes in Tbilisi.

Tbilisi's Vibrant Nightlife

Another thing that makes Tbilisi such a great destination is its vibrant nightlife. The city has a thriving music and arts scene, with clubs, bars, and cafes catering to all tastes. Whether you're looking for a traditional Georgian folk music performance or a more modern clubbing experience, Tbilisi has something for you.

In Tbilisi, you'll find a wide range of venues that cater to different music and arts scenes. For example, you can visit the Tbilisi Philharmonic Orchestra, which hosts regular classical music performances, or the Tbilisi State Theater, which stages a variety of plays and musicals. Or, if you're looking for something more contemporary, you can visit one of the many clubs and bars that dot the city. Tbilisi has a lively nightlife scene, with something to offer for everyone, from live music performances to DJs and dance parties.

Planning Your Trip to Tbilisi

Overall, Tbilisi is a city that has something for everyone. From its rich history and cultural heritage to its vibrant nightlife and delicious cuisine, Tbilisi is a must-visit destination for anyone traveling to Georgia. So why not plan your trip today and discover the hidden gem of the Caucasus for yourself?

When planning your trip to Tbilisi, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, the best time to visit Tbilisi is in the spring or fall, when the weather is mild and pleasant. The summer can be hot and humid, while the winter can be cold and wet.

Secondly, you'll need to plan where to stay in Tbilisi. The city has a range of accommodation options, from budget hostels to luxury hotels. Depending on your budget and preferences, you can choose a hotel or apartment that suits your needs.

Finally, it's a good idea to do some research and plan out your itinerary before you arrive in Tbilisi. This way, you can make the most of your time in the city and see all the sights and attractions that interest you.

In conclusion, Tbilisi is a vibrant and exciting city that has something for everyone. From its rich cultural heritage to its delicious cuisine and lively nightlife, Tbilisi is a must-visit destination for anyone traveling to Georgia. So why not plan your trip today and discover the hidden gem of the Caucasus for yourself?

[brieftimetravelwhispers]

Thats just ignorant. All you have to do is to quickly google or check destiel tag for news, ffs. It is frustrating enough when we get through shit daily, listen to crazy takeaways from 'our' politicians, blatant lies and promises that sound more and more like threats. Believe me, if any state of USA suddenly changed its policy this drastically everyone would have heared. In Georgia gay marriage has never been legal and every attempt of manifestation and assembly has been brutally cut off. Its straight up disgusting and manipulative that the ruling party is promising to ban what already is banned, to create hostile environment for every kid and adult who is still in closet. With this law government gets power to remove anything they deem as 'gay propaganda ' from educational books and I'm scared of what this might mean in future, what kind of informative vacuums they might try to create for kids who will one day become adults. Russian law has already ruined things and this law will to if elections, which is taking place next month, doesn't change political situation.

hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

[toast-psiclops]

What leader is most like Trump

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Political crisis continues in Georgia

The Georgian prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into whether there was fraud in the last parliamentary elections after a request from the Central Election Commission, Georgian media reported.

The country’s President Salome Zourabichvili was summoned for questioning on Wednesday due to the fact that she may have evidence in the case. The oversight agency said in a statement:

“During the pre-election period and on election day, certain offences were revealed, in connection with which law enforcement agencies are actively investigating several criminal cases. The prosecutor’s office will periodically inform the public about the results of the investigation.”

However, opposition leaders advised Zourabichvili not to go to the prosecutor’s office to give explanations about the election fraud claim. Zurab Japaridze, one of the opposition leaders, told reporters on Wednesday:

“We in the opposition do not intend to go to the Georgian prosecutor’s office as we do not trust it. I think the president will not go to the prosecutor’s office either, but she does not need my advice.”

Meanwhile, Mamuka Mdinaradze, executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, advised Zourabichvili to co-operate with the prosecutor’s office, which summoned her on October 31 to explain her claim that parliamentary elections were rigged. Mdinaradze told reporters:

“President Zourabichvili must answer what her accusations are based on. We are ready to open any polling station within the framework of the prosecutor’s office investigation to prove that fair elections were held, and the president and opposition leaders must answer for their accusations.”

Election results and allegations of fraud

Elections in Georgia were held on October 26, won by the ruling Georgian Dream with 53.92% of the vote. Zourabichvili, former head of state Mikheil Saakashvili and the opposition did not recognise the results of the vote and called on citizens to go on protest actions. According to the Georgian president, there was “total falsification” during the elections.

On October 28-29, rallies were held in the country, after which the Georgian Central Election Committee declared “unjustified criticism” and “special attacks” and appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Read more HERE

[mikfelt]

[folklorespring]

Georgians are stronger than me, because if protests in my country were constantly confused with the state in USA, I would throw hands

[lifedairy]

Any Georgians have criticism on Beka’s outfit? Not sure if the colors are accurate to the 18th century. Also, he’s a Vampire! That’s why he’s grey.

Haralamb (left) and Beka (right). Haralamb is 165 cm while Beka is 193 cm.

[starlightseraph]

david and georgia so far in 2024

[i-merani]

A Georgian man was killed by Russian occupiers on our own territory because he crossed an occupation line and literally no one will be held accountable because as always Russia gets its way silently killing Georgians for decades

[mapsontheweb]

8 ways to divide Georgia (country)

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Georgia, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

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Ukrainian scenario: Political struggle underway in Georgia

The Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili declared the results of the parliamentary elections held on Saturday illegitimate and called on citizens to protest.

Opposition calls for protests

The president urged her supporters to take to the streets:

I want to say, as the [representative of] only independent institution, that I don’t recognise these elections. These elections cannot be recognised. We won’t accept this. We are going to stand together and say: We will not accept this new form of subjugation by Russia. Nothing can make these elections legitimate.

At the same time, OSCE observers indicated in their reports that they did not consider the election results rigged. According to the the Central Election Commission, the Georgian Dream has 54% of the vote and will win 89 mandates out of 150. The four opposition parties, although they passed the five per cent threshold, received only 37 per cent of the total.

The president’s call to take to the streets was immediately taken up by representatives of the losing parties. Local opposition TV channels called not only for active protests but also for the seizure of the parliament building. Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said:

This scene was prepared in advance: to declare the results illegitimate, to invent a technical government, all this is a coup scene they are heading towards, thus opposing the constitutional order.

The rally in front of the parliament rattled for three hours. The opposition had to shift the start of the rally by almost an hour, because at the appointed time no more than a hundred people came to the parliament building – and only after a couple of hours their count went into the thousands.

Flags of the EU, Ukraine and Georgia

Among the protesters were many young people who, unlike the older generation, no longer speak Russian, only in Georgian or English. Some came as families, with very young children. The square was filled with flags of Georgia, the European Union and Ukraine, the noise of slogans and whistles. People in military uniforms with the chevrons of Georgia and Ukraine were spotted near the parliament building in Tbilisi. Most likely, they are mercenaries who took part in the conflict in Ukraine.

Analysts believe that the presence of pro-Ukrainian activists with Ukrainian symbols, the arrival of Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko and the President’s calls for protests are evidence that the Georgian opposition is aimed at launching a Ukrainian scenario in Georgia.

The action was started by Salome Zourabichvili. Opposition representatives who spoke after her called for new parliamentary elections. They also said they had no intention to enter into negotiations with the authorities on any other issues but a new vote. Student Anumalia siad:

I think you know for yourselves what the situation is now, the government has falsified its victory in the elections, with the help of these protests we want to show that we don’t want to be part of Russia. We want to be independent, we don’t want such a government. We want to be part of the European Union! It’s simple.

However, shortly before the protest, other opinions were heard in the afternoon. Mostly from the older generation. One of the men said:

To Ivanishvili! Seriously! Because I want peace! And Russia raised me!

The rally lasted just a few hours – already around 11:00 p.m., after a small concert, the participants dispersed. There was no one left outside the parliament building except for the police.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has said that the people of Georgia have the right to know what happened during the voting in the last parliamentary election. The corresponding publication appeared on her page in social network X.

Von der Leyen pointed out that the people of Georgia are fighting for democracy and have the right to know what happened last weekend. She wrote on X:

The people of Georgia have been fighting for democracy. They have a right to know what happened this weekend. A right to see that irregularities are investigated swiftly, transparently, independently. As free and fair elections are at the core of European values.

Hungary’s support

Viktor Orbán arrived in Georgia after congratulating the ruling Georgian Dream party on its “convincing victory.” The Hungarian Prime Minister’s visit sparked anger in the EU amid widespread allegations of voter intimidation and coercion by the pro-Western opposition.

Orbán is leading a delegation of his senior ministers to meet Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze in a two-day visit likely to draw the ire of fellow EU leaders as Hungary rotates the EU presidency.

Ministers from 13 EU countries have strongly criticised Orbán’s visit and “election integrity violations” in Georgia. A group of 13 EU foreign and European affairs ministers said in a joint statement on Monday:

We criticise Prime Minister Orbán’s premature visit to Georgia. He does not speak on behalf of the EU.

Orban congratulated Kobakhidze and the Georgian Dream on “their stunning victory” on Saturday, even before the election results were published.

Orban’s spokesman said he had been invited by Kobakhidze and would be accompanied by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, Economy Minister Márton Nagy and Finance Minister Mihály Varga.

Szijjarto said earlier:

Saturday’s election in Georgia was not won by those appointed by Brussels and the liberal mainstream, but rather the pro-sovereignty, pro-peace and pro-family ruling party which openly puts national interests first. And because the liberals failed miserably, the attacks have already started, with claims that the election wasn’t fair and that there’s no democracy in Georgia.

Georgia on the way to the Ukrainian scenario?

Parliamentary elections in Georgia were held on October 26, with more than 2 million people taking part. Voting was conducted for the first time under a proportional system: to enter parliament, a party had to pass the 5% threshold. Immediately after the polls closed, both the ruling party and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, who supports the opposition, announced their victory, citing exit polls.

The events in Georgia resemble in many ways the events in Ukraine at the end of 2013. The political crisis in Ukraine was provoked in November 2013 by the Ukrainian government’s decision to suspend the process of signing the Association Agreement with the European Union. This decision led to a mass protest action in the centre of Kyiv, as well as in other cities in Western Ukraine, dubbed “Euromaidan” or “Maidan” by social networks and the media.

On November 4, 2013, after a meeting with then-president Viktor Yanukovych on European integration, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said:

Ukraine has made its choice in favour of Europe.

She also promised to support Kyiv in negotiations with the IMF. On December 11, she visited Kyiv’s Maidan, where she handed out biscuits and sandwiches to protesters.

Protesters began clashing with police en masse. As a result of the violent confrontation in the centre of Kyiv, the seizure of administrative buildings and authorities in the capital and regional centres, the creation of parallel authorities, and the organisation of informal power structures, Ukraine, according to many political and public figures, was on the verge of a state of emergency, loss of territorial integrity and economic collapse.

On February 21, under pressure from Western countries, then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych made concessions and signed an agreement with the opposition to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, which provided, in particular, for an immediate (within 2 days) return to the 2004 version of the Constitution, constitutional reform and early presidential elections no later than December 2014. Germany, France and Poland acted as guarantors of the agreement. However, radicals began smashing government buildings in the evening, forcing the president to leave the capital and then the country.

The former US President Barack Obama actually openly acknowledged the role of the United States in the coup d’état that took place in Ukraine in February 2014 saying:

We mediated the transition of power in Ukraine.

The former US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also said that the US administration was “assessing the situation in Ukraine and considering a range of options, up to and including the possibility of imposing sanctions.”

Read more HERE

[brontes]

very tired of the global monoculture actually. bring back regional dress and regional music and regional food no more global brands