Locals
Yes, we’re loud and we know it. We love late-night supras with our family and friends and we love our food and wine. Surely every culture has its own notion of a cozy and warm ambiance. But we think ‘supra’ is unique. So if you’re planning on visiting or moving to Georgia and find yourself drawn to “supra”, don’t say we didn’t warn you … we know you’ll love it! 
We also love and cherish our history and our traditions. But that’s not all we do. We’re creative and talented. We inspire and engage. We’ve come a long way and we’re changing every day.
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Coronavirus, Tourism And Other Things Georgia Is Good At
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Oil Builds Statues – Effigies of Greed
Once upon a time, there was a man, Who had tons and tons of oil wells. He drilled and killed as much as he willed, Forging, gilding all his deeds. Futile were his hordes of sins, Veiling all of pogrom yields. With stygian gold he used to preach, And got himself some statues built. (Building his effigies of greed) At the center of our multicultural city stands an effigy of greed, shamelessly disgracing all of the city’s denizens, while also disrespecting a huge ethnic group inside the country, as well as outside of it. But before we get to that ethical dilemma, let’s talk about the statue itself for…
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Back To The Future
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Tbilisi – The Way I See It
By Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze Tbilisi – the city I was born and raised in- is stuck in my earliest memory as a post-civil-war, ruined, poor, and grey space. But in spite of this, I still fell in love with her. Today, some people in Georgia say “Tbilisi means relationships”. But people who say this phrase are the ones who have sentiments and nostalgia for the Soviet times. Unfortunately, that’s our reality; all the recent good memories about Tbilisi are from the Soviet era when people didn’t worry about heating, gas, electricity, and food as much as they have from 1991 to our days. When people used to gather in their…
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The Intimate Terrorism
For millions of women, children, and men, all over the world, home is not a safe place and the only memories that are formed in it are painful ones. The challenge of dealing with domestic violence and the importance of doing so are two sides of the same coin. Domestic violence is so devastating precisely because it causes problems at the core of people’s lives—their homes.
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Our Not So Unique Flag
Our icon is the homelandTrust in God is our creed,Enlightened land of plains and mounts,Blessed by God and holy heaven.The freedom we have learned to followMakes our future spirits stronger,Morning star will rise above usAnd lightens up the land between the two seas.Glory to long-cherished freedom,Glory to liberty! Tourist or local, you’ve almost certainly seen this flag already. You might like it, you might not (I don’t), but it’s what we’ve got, and we’re stuck with it. Still, it hasn’t always been our flag. We had different flags before annexation by the Russian Empire, a different one after breaking free from it and before being absorbed by the Soviet Union,…
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Tbilisi – More Than Hot Baths
“Vakhtang I Gorgasali once went hunting with his royal falcon in the forests around the first capital of Georgia, Mtskheta. After some time, the king sent his falcon to catch a pheasant. The falcon flew away, and eventually, the king lost sight of it. In search of the birds, Vakhtang Gorgasali and his hunters came across a spring and saw that both the falcon and the pheasant had fallen into its waters. The spring turned out to be hot. Amazed by this discovery and recognizing the potential of the natural springs, Vakhtang I decided to establish a city at this location.” Thus, according to legend, the city of Tbilisi was…
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Losing Our Past
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Who is Sofia Melnikova?
