Politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from Georgian families, Georgian schools, Georgian churches, Georgian businesses and Georgian universities, and they are elected by Georgian citizens. These politicians are the best we can do folks. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.
- Do you ever wonder that the melodies that are stuck in our heads are actually rooted in our memory and connected to certain places, events, or meetings that we wish to erase or can't forget? Strangely enough, these exact places carry the memory of music in...
By Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze Tbilisi - the city I was born and raised, 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 meant...
Five Questions For Expats By Stan Gaivoronsky Assa, where did you come from and why? I moved here from Moscow because I fell in love with a Georgian guy named Gabriel. I’ve been visiting Tbilisi very frequently since last year and dreamed of making it my home...
By Stan Gaivoronsky Who is Sofia Melnikova? Firstly, she was an actress and a muse, secondly, it is a Fantastic Douqan. Everyone knows the story of Niko Pirosmani and actress Margarita. But that’s a different story. On November 12th, 1917, the Poets Club, the...
Five Questions For Expats By Stan Gaivoronsky Aison, where did you live before moving to Tbilisi and what brought you here? I lived in Moscow for three and a half years and then moved to Tbilisi. What was the reason? I don’t even know, it happened by chance (I never...