Guram is a Senior Sergeant of the tank branch of the Georgian army, currently on leave. In the 2008 war, he was fighting against the Russian army and South Ossetian militias. According to him, things were quite chaotic back then and while shooting at Russians and their tanks from afar…
Kategorie: Georgien
Leva is active in the LGBTQ scene in Tbilisi. He says that despite the global hype about Georgian techno and nightlife, the country is still largely dominated by conservative values. Only people in Tbilisi with some money and a more international outlook were really liberal and tolerant. The countryside, most…
Grigori or Grisha, as he likes to be called, is an 87-year-old pensioner from Chiatura. The Georgian mining town rose to prominence in the 1930s during the Soviet industrialisation campaign. By some estimates, Chiatura used to produce more than 50% of the world’s supply of manganese, an important ingredient in…
Lia is the wife of Kakha Giuashvili, a former MP under Georgian presidents Shevardnadze and Saakashvili. She belongs to the ethnic group of the Pontic Greeks, which have traditionally been settling around the Black Sea. Part of her family originally hails from Saloniki which used to be part of the…