International Airports in Latvia Sep 8, 2009
For Scheduled and Cheap Flights to Riga, Liepaja and Ventspils. Latvia is a country in northern Europe on the Baltic Sea. (Suite101.com)
Finding new life in U.S. Jul 28, 2009
Tabatadze earned his undergraduate degree in physics and computer science at Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He then studied health physics, which looks at how radiation affects the human body and the environment, at the University of Nevada- Las Vegas, where he focused on medical applications of health physics for his master's degree. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
From Tallahassee to Tbilisi Jul 20, 2009
Meanwhile, here, Wakefield got word that she had won the Fulbright, which will provide her about $19,000 to travel to Tbilisi, the capital city, for 10 months. She intends to learn more about Georgia's library system, then collect data from the National Parliamentary Library and libraries throughout the country. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
bmi Rolls Out Chauffeur Drive on Key Regional Business Routes Jul 18, 2009
The service is also available in the UK only for those travelling to Tehran and Tbilisi ... Across its mainline route network bmi operates to Aberdeen; Addis Ababa; Aleppo; Almaty; Amman; Amsterdam; Baku; Beirut; Belfast City; Bishkek; Brussels; Cairo; Damascus; Dammam; Dublin; Edinburgh; Freetown; Glasgow; Hanover; Jeddah; Khartoum; Kiev; London Heathrow; Manchester; Moscow Domodedovo; Palma Mallorca; Riyadh; Tbilisi; Tehran; Tel Aviv; Venice; Yerevan. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Thousands attend Georgia protest May 27, 2009
The crowd sang the national anthem and heard speeches by opposition leaders in a stadium in the capital, Tbilisi ... The BBC's Tom Esslemont in Tbilisi says independence day is traditionally when Georgians get together to unite behind the country ... This year, the thousands who gathered at Dynamo Tbilisi's 60,000-seat stadium are united not just behind Georgia but also in their support for the opposition parties, our correspondent says. (BBC News -- Europe)
A month of military exercises in Georgia, criticized by Russia as a "provocation," overshadow ties between Russia and NATO, which have been on the mend as the two sides last week resumed formal contact.• NATO begins exercises in Georgia May 7, 2009
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili attends a meeting with top military officials at the Defence Ministry in Tbilisi, May 6, 2009 ... TBILISI, May 6 (Xinhua) -- NATO began military exercises at Georgia's Vaziani military base, some 20 km east of the capital Tbilisi, on Wednesday ... TBILISI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A former Georgian special forces commander and a tank battalion commander were arrested Tuesday for allegedly organizing an attempted mutiny that ended peacefully when most participants... (Xinhuanet, China)
Georgia says brief mutiny has ended May 6, 2009
TBILISI, Georgia Georgia said it had ended a brief mutiny at a military base near the capital today that broke out after the arrest of a former special forces commander accused of planning to disrupt NATO exercises ... Defence Minister David Sikharulidze earlier said he had been blocked from entering the base in Mukhrovani, about 30 kilometres from Tbilisi ... The official in Mr. Saakashvili's office said: There's absolutely nothing going on in Tbilisi, at the base or anywhere in the country. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Georgia fingers Russia May 6, 2009
Officials said the uprising at the Mukhrovani base 25 kilometres outside Tbilisi lasted several hours ... "He said that people are waiting for us in Tbilisi, that they are waiting for the appearance of arms and that the opposition is waiting for us as well," said the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Shota Gorgiashvili. (iAfrica.com)
Cell block Tbilisi Apr 28, 2009
Quiet streets are an unfamiliar and unnerving site in Tbilisi ... "The cells are only visible here in Tbilisi but the notion of imprisonment is tangible all over Georgia," he tells me ... Ilia Azmaipharashvili Tbilisi taxi driver. (BBC News -- Europe)
United by the theatre of war Apr 18, 2009
He has spent up to a year at a time studying theatre in locales as far-flung as Dublin and Tbilisi places where he can "be broken by [the experience] and learn something new." In 2007, those forays spurred him to launch a company under the name Human Cargo. Soon afterward, he heard a CBC Radio interview with a soldier's wife in Petawawa, Ont. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Gliding through life Apr 12, 2009
Irina was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union. When she was 11, her mother took her to a movie where the famous coach Nelli Saladze immediately recognized the body and carriage of a potential gymnast. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Georgia pres face protests Apr 12, 2009
"The opposition has decided to start a national disobedience campaign," Kakha Kukava, a co-leader of the opposition Conservative Party, told a crowd of 25 000 protesters in central Tbilisi ... Protesters had blocked the capital's main road, Rustaveli Avenue, overnight before rallying in the afternoon and then paralysing traffic in central Tbilisi by marching through the streets. (iAfrica.com)
Georgia braces for riots Apr 9, 2009
Members of a Georgian political youth group hold a rally in central Tbilisi. Tens of thousands of opposition supporters were expected to take to the streets of Tbilisi for the start of mass protests aimed at ousting President Mikheil Saakashvili ... Tens of thousands of opposition supporters were expected to take to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi for the start of mass protests aimed at ousting President Mikheil Saakashvili. (iAfrica.com)
Recession? War? Gulf developer continues massive Georgia luxury project. Feb 26, 2009
TBILISI, Georgia - Despite a war and global financial crisis, Rakeen, an Arab real estate developer in Georgia, is pressing ahead with building hundreds of luxury villas in a gated community, complete with equestrian and falconry clubs ... Rakeen became sole owner of Poti's port in December; it opened a cement plant near Tbilisi in October to support construction ... Indeed, many projects have been canceled in Georgia, says Givi Korinteli, a developer with Tbilisi-based Green Development. (Christian Science Monitor)
Georgia Fading On EU, NATO Radar Screens Feb 9, 2009
But crucially for Tbilisi, the EU does not plan to follow up these concerns with anything more substantial. The bloc s member states have concluded the EU stands to gain nothing from alienating Russia any further. (EurasiaNet.org)
