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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Caucasus”

• Georgia: Reaction to lack of media attention on Azerbaijan bloggers trial

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Following last weeks sentence on two video bloggers in Azerbaijan , some blogs in neighboring Georgia have posted critical entries condemning the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli . This also extends to the relative lack of coverage on the case in the local mainstream media as ...
  13 hours ago

• The Tsminda Sameba Church

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  The Georgian Military Highway was spectacular, the Ananuri fortress and church stunningly beautiful, however the Tsminda Sameba Church, well.... but first to describe it. Near the closed border with Russia is the town of Kazbegi. It is famous in its own right for being the home of one of Georgias greatest writers ...
  23 hours ago

• The Ananuri Fortress and Church

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  As mentioned in the previous blog entry, the Georgian Military Highway was an ancient trading route, and control of which could bring great riches. During medieval times a large chunk of it was controlled by the dukes of Avagri and it appears they operated as a sort of reverse Robin Hood, taking from the poor (the ...
  23 hours ago

• Up the Georgian Military Highway

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  One of the bits of advice my uncle gave me if I was to visit Georgia was to travel the Georgian Military Highway. The name made me think it was new, as in the last one hundred years, maybe build during the Soviet era to allow tank divisions to roll south. But the reality is it is a very old trading route and ...
  23 hours ago

• Jvari Church

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  Just got back to a London that is currently suffering storm force winds and battering rain. The landing at Heathrow was decidedly wobbly and wind speeds of 100 mph were measured earlier at The Needles. Despite being many days behind in stories from my travels and some good posts planned the rest of the day involves ...
  1 day ago

• Featured Editor: Onnik Krikorian

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Onnik Krikorian is a British blogger, journalist, and photographer of Armenian decent who has been living in Yerevan , one of the worlds oldest continuously-inhabited cities, for the past 11 years. He is the Caucasus Editor for Global Voices where he amplifies the latest discussions taking place among bloggers in ...
  2 days ago

• 20 militants killed in Chechnya

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Grozny (Chechnya), Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) Russian security forces have killed at least 20 militants in the restive North Caucasus republic of Chechnya Friday, an official said.Most of the bodies could not be identified, said Ramzan Kadyrov, who commanded the special operation.Air and ground assaults were launched to ...
  2 days ago

• Mtskheta, the heart of Georgia

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  Just up river from Tbilisi is the spiritual heart of Georgia, the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the old town of Mtskheta. This was one of the earliest Christian churches in the world, founded in about 327 AD. The story is that a Jew from Mtskheta was in Jerusalem at the time of the crucification and returned with the ...
  2 days ago

• Caucasus News Update – US ‘regrets’ blogger jailings in Azerbaijan (AFP via Yahoo! News)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 506
  US ‘regrets’ blogger jailings in Azerbaijan (AFP via Yahoo! News) The United States “regrets” the jailing of two Azerbaijan bloggers who were critical of their country in online postings, the State Department said Wednesday. Armenia to switch to digital TV, radio by 2015 – minister (Interfax) YEREVAN. Nov 12 ...
  3 days ago

• EU: EU-Russia ties to be strengthened - with conditions

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Climate change, energy security and a new general cooperation agreement between the two blocs are among the topics that the Swedish Presidency should discuss with Russia at the upcoming Stockholm summit on 18 November. MEPs are concerned about the human rights situation in Russia (the EP recently awarded its Sakharov ...
  3 days ago

• Tbilisi, Capital of Georgia

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  This roughly patched together panorama shows Tbilisi from the Narikala Fortress that looms over the city. Most of the city, including the oldest parts, are on the left hand bank of the Mtkvari River. However just over the bridge is the Metekhi Church which stands on a rocky outcrop overlooking a sharp bend in the ...
  3 days ago

• PHOTOGRAPHY: Georgian Photos by Barbara Kaniewska from Poland (misietupodoba.pl)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 138
  REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA www.misietupodoba.pl
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• EU urges Russia to keep moratorium on death penalty

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Brussels, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) The European Union (EU) is hoping that Russia will not abolish the moratorium on the death penalty, an official of the 27-member block has said.Russia undertook to scrap the death penalty when it signed Protocol 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not yet ratified ...
  3 days ago

• Hello Tbilisi

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  Its only a short flight from Baku to Tbilisi, a place that my uncle had recommended I visit if I was over this way. The photos in the guide book looked pretty amazing so a bit of Googling and credit card payments and here I am in the capital of another of the countries of the Caucasus, Georgia. Actually Im behind in ...
  3 days ago

• Farewell to Baku

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  This is the view of Baku from the Sahidler Xiyabani, the war memorials on the hill above the city. And thats the last post on Baku as now in another city whose name those checking their blog hits might be able to guess. More soon....
  4 days ago

• The Port of Baku

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  Baku is of course a major port, with ferries across the Caspian Sea to countries such as Kazakhstan and working ships to support the oil industry. So here is a picture for the likes of Tugster There were also pleasure trips around the bay, but the day I was hoping to go it was apparently too choppy.
  4 days ago

• The Communicating Multi-Polar World

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  I remember a couple of years ago that if you turned on the TV when travelling youd get pretty much the same list of stations. It would be a couple of local ones, BBC, CNN, then something French or Italian and that would be it - maybe a dozen in total. However in Baku there were 700ish stations with representatives of ...
  4 days ago

• USA: Veterans ask Obama to reconsider Afghanistan

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Brave New Foundation posts a petition and YouTube video with young veterans asking Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.
  4 days ago

• Donkey Bloggers Sentenced to Two Years

  
  Eternal Remont: — Authority: 476
  As you all know, weve been following the case of bloggers Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli in Azerbaijan for months now. Unfortunately, today, RFE/RL reports that the bloggers have been sentenced to 2.5-year jail sentences. Quick reminder, the men were arrested in July for hooliganism after they themselves were ...
  4 days ago

• Oil and Gas, Fire and Religion

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 126
  Oil is the principle basis of the wealth of Baku, both now and in the past. The landscape north of Baku in the Abseron Peninsula is one of the locations that made the Nobels and Rothschilds rich in the first oil boom at the end of the 19th Century. It is a scene of desolation, of nodding donkeys as far as the eye can ...
  4 days ago

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