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Issue no: 841
• MAY 6 - 9, 2016
• PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY
PRICE: GEL 2.50
In this week’s issue... State Funding to Launch Program Supporting Start-Ups NEWS PAGE 2
Remembering the Lone Wolf of Ichkeria POLITICS PAGE 7
Scandalous Details from the London Trial of Vano Chkhartishvili PAGE 10
FOCUS
ON NATO
NATO discusses a new agreement for Georgia and Ukraine under the 28+2 format
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Georgia Welcomed into EU’s Research and Innovation Society BY EKA KARSAULIDZE
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esearchers and innovators from Georgia will now be able to participate in Horizon 2020, the EU’s framework program for research and innovation, under the same conditions as their counterparts from EU Member States and other associated countries. Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Tamar Sanikidze, Georgian Minister of Education and Science signed the associaton agreement between Georgia and Horizon 2020 on April 29. Continued on page 2
Nothing We Can’t Escape: The Easter Epistle SOCIETY PAGE 11
‘Late Love’ by the Greatest Russian Realist Playwright CULTURE PAGE 13
Chess Legend Nona Gaprindashvili’s Star Opens in Tbilisi
SPORTS PAGE 15