Shorina is originally from Gali, a town in Abkhazia, that used to be mainly populated by Georgians. In the 1992/93 Abkhaz war almost all ethnic Georgians were pushed out of the territory of Abkhazia. So were Shorina’s relatives, while she got married in Zugdidi, a town under Georgian control. Her…
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Makho is a Georgian from the Gali district in the south of Abkhazia who likes to listen to 80s German pop by “Modern Talking”. Like almost all Georgians, he was pushed out of his home in suit of the 1992-1993 Abkhazia war. After living in refugee camps a few years…
Shorina runs a little B&B in her cute house in Zugdidi, a Georgian town near the border with Abkhazia. She has witnessed the conflictual history of the region in the past 30 years. During the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia, she saw Georgian military training camps and refugee treks, as military…
Luca is a photographer and model from Georgia who works in New York. He loves coming back to Tbilisi for clubbing and meeting friends. Here he just came from Cafe Gallery, one of the city’s best techno venues.
Temur was at the daily protests against the Georgian government in front of the parliament in Tbilisi last Thursday. His dream is for Georgia to become a member of the European Union. He is not very fond of Russia as he says it stands against liberal values and has always…