She graduated from the Caucasian Languages Department of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University. Her post-graduate course at the Academy of Sciences was in the Zan language studies. Since 1947 Irine Asatiani worked as a researcher in the Georgian Institute of Linguistics first in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and later in the... Read more >
Rustam Raza was born in 1782 in Tbilisi to Armenian parents. He was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold in Cairo, where the sheikh presented him to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798.... Read more >
Western “soft powers” – be they American jazz or cinematography, literature or rock n roll – sped up the initial exposure and final demise of the soviet ideology; It... Read more >
A nation that cannot distinguish between a friend and a foe doesn’t deserve all the good that results from being free. All successful, advanced states have been built by societies with self... Read more >
Nika Rurua, a filmmaker by education, had planned to make a film once Georgia became a NATO member. Anyone who knew him would easily guess the film's subject: the Russian occupation a century... Read more >
