Issue no: 975
• AUGUST 25 - 28, 2017
• PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY
FOCUS ON THE BORJOMI BLAZE An overview from first spark to dissipating smoke PAGE
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In this week’s issue... Tbilisi Denounces De Facto Abkhazian Delegation’s Visit to Syria NEWS PAGE 2
Russia Closes Off Kerch Strait POLITICS PAGE 4
Akhalgori: Awaiting First Bell as the School Language is Switched POLITICS PAGE 5
Georgian Almond Growers Association Aims for Global Recognition of Georgia’s Potential BUSINESS PAGE 8
Heavy Rain, Wind Hits Ureki & Shekvetili Villages in Guria
Magnum Photos & TBC Bank Present ‘In the Footsteps of Capa & Steinbeck’s Russian Journal’ BY NINO GUGUNISHVILI
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ack in 1947, acclaimed war photograph Robert Capa, one of the founders of the Magnum Photo Agency, and John Steinbeck, famous American writer and Noble prize winner, traveled to then-USSR to witness and record the lives of people living within the Soviet system. They visited Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, a journey first published in a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune and Ladies Home Journal. These were later transformed into a book by Steinbeck: A Russian Journal, published in 1948. Continued on page 8
SOCIETY PAGE 10
When Classic Meets Jazz, Georgian Trio at Konzerthaus Berlin CULTURE PAGE 13