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Georgia opens 12th Nikozi International Animation Film Festival
Georgia Online
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September 5, 2025
The Minister of State Tea Akhvlediani attended the opening of the International Animation Film Festival “Nikozi” in the village of Nikozi of Gori municipality, Shida Kartli region. The Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil...
‘Not yet ready for decision’: Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia’s (potential) impact on Ukraine’s compensation mechanism
EJIL: Talk!
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September 5, 2025
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court)’s merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (Ukraine-v.-Russia) prompted assessments (here; here; here; here). This post addresses one unexamined question: how the judgment has...
South Korea expresses ’concern’ over U.S. immigration raid at Hyundai’s Georgia plant
The Hindu
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September 5, 2025
The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. File | Photo Credit: AP South Korea on Friday (September 5, 2025) expressed “concern and regret” over a major U.S. immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai...
Eric Brandt Nielson returns to VSU to share memoir
WVGA Valdosta Today - Georgia
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September 8, 2025
VALDOSTA – Eric Brandt Nielsen returns to VSU for a special presentation of “Showboy to Showman: A Lifetime in the Performing Arts.” Creative expression knows no boundaries or limits, as Eric Brandt Nielsen shares in his memoir “Showboy to...
Azerbaijan positions itself as backbone of Gulf–Black Sea corridor
AzerNews
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September 1, 2025
The South Caucasus is on the verge of a significant transformation in its transport and logistics landscape, which could create a direct connection from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea. During a special Cabinet of Ministers meeting on August 26,...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 8:49 p.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence is transforming call centers by streamlining tasks and improving customer service. Armen Kirakosian, a call center...
Georgia jails 11 in crackdown on pro-EU movement
Macau Business
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September 3, 2025
Georgia on Wednesday jailed 11 pro-European protesters for two years each, a news agency reported, the latest in what critics see as a spiralling crackdown on dissent in the Caucasus country. Georgia, an official candidate to join the EU, has...
AP News Summary at 4:46 p.m. EDT
Yuma Sun - Arizona
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Ukraine government building damaged in Kyiv in the largest Russian attack since the war began KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began, targeting Kyiv with drones and missiles. Officials...
How Putin lost in the Caucasus and punished his minion for it
EurActiv
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September 5, 2025
Konstantin Eggert is a Russian-born journalist with DW, Germany’s international broadcaster. He is based in Vilnius and was previously editor-in-chief of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. “Which side do I take today – Baku or Yerevan?” It is...
Abkhazia to open museum for footballer Vitaly Daraselia after Georgian TV criticism
JAMnews
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September 3, 2025
Vitaly Daraselia museum The authorities in Abkhazia plan to open a museum dedicated to Vitaly Daraselia, the celebrated Soviet footballer of Abkhaz origin who played for Dinamo Tbilisi. The announcement came in response to a report by the Georgian...
Top stories in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia from 1-5 September, 2025
JAMnews
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September 5, 2025
● President Ilham Aliyev spoke at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China. “Azerbaijan is one of the transport and logistics hubs of Eurasia and intends to increase the capacity of its international seaport from 15 to...
Georgia fugitive arrested Wednesday in Farmville
The Farmville Herald - Virginia
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September 3, 2025
Published 5:44 pm Wednesday, September 3, 2025 A Georgia fugitive was arrested in Farmville Wednesday morning by the U.S. Marshal’s Service with assistance from local law enforcement agencies. Dekerius Thompson, 23, was taken into custody in...
Carolyn Elizabeth Warford
West Kentucky Star
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LaCenter | Dec. 05, 1933 | 17 hours ago LaCenter, KY, Carolyn Elizabeth (Gragg) Warford, 91, passed away early Sunday morning, September 7, 2025 at NHC Place At The Trace Health Care in Nashville, Tn. Carolyn Elizabeth Gragg lived most of her...
Georgia’s summer of repression puts US relations in doubt
Atlantic Council
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September 3, 2025
New Atlanticist September 3, 2025 • 1:01 pm ET Print this page By Jessica De Mesa and Andrew D’Anieri The Georgian Dream party has held power in Georgia since 2012 in large part by employing an array of authoritarian tactics, but the first seven...
Georgian court acquits protester of drug charges
Open Caucasus Media
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September 3, 2025
The Caucasus is changing — so are we. The future of journalism in the region is grim. Independent voices are under threat — and we’re responding by building a newsroom powered by our readers. Join our community and help push back against the...
Soviet symbolism returns to Russian diplomacy
The Interpreter
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September 5, 2025
Sergei Lavrov is no stranger to making a statement. But not in a fashion sense. So, when Russia’s long-serving Foreign Minister wore a pullover jumper emblazoned with the USSR logo “CCCP” when arriving for so-called peace talks in Alaska last...
Joe Burrow's 'Employee' Olivia Ponton Joins Livvy Dunne By Hopping In A Tub To Celebrate Football's Return
OutKick - Tennessee
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September 7, 2025
Olivia Ponton’s tub post on NFL Sunday only added fuel to the Joe Burrow rumor mill. PublishedSeptember 7, 2025 4:40 PM EDT•UpdatedSeptember 7, 2025 3:54 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link Joe Burrow and his "employee," model Olivia Ponton,...
Russia and the Council of Europe: The troubled membership from the perspective of a Commissioner for Human Rights
EJIL: Talk!
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September 3, 2025
The volume Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights should be essential reading for a number of different audiences. It is very useful to have a detailed documentation of the fractious relationship of the...
Jim Cramer: Trump may be exciting, but can listening to him make you money?
CNBC
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September 7, 2025
The conundrum of President Donald Trump is one I try to stay away from. Not because I don't want to go there, but because it hasn't been all that lucrative to do so. Because of the president's sheer, endless presence in the media, and his love of...
Archi Conquered the Domestic Market. Now It’s Putting Georgian Real Estate on the Global Map
Caucasus Business Week
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When a developer from Tbilisi starts appearing in conversations about Miami’s coastline, it’s a signal for more than just another run-of-the-mill high-rise. Archi, one of Georgia’s most well-known development companies, is stepping onto the...