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The General Director of the Georgian opposition channel Rustavi2, Nika Gvaramia, was attacked on January 7 while dining together with friends in a restaurant in Tbilisi. “I buried my father today and I was feeling depressed. My friends invited me to restaurant Dining Room in order to make me feel…
Russia should be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics, declared UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) last night. The head of UKAD David Kenworthy thinks that the Russian team must be excluded from participation in the Winter Olympics in 2018, which will take place in the South Korean city, Pyeongchang. “I think…
The U.S. Office of Director of National Intelligence released on Friday a report that detailed the Russian campaign to influence the US election. According to the report, there is a high probability that Putin ordered hacker attacks to influence the election outcome. According to the report, Putin most likely to…
In Russia people are no longer able to download the LinkedIn app from the App Store and Google Play. Russian authorities have requested to block the application on the territory of Russia a few weeks after Roskomnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information…
The Russian Orthodox Christmas is approaching on January 7th. It seems Mother Nature will make it a cold holiday whether you are a believer or not. Meteorologists are expecting frigid temperatures as low as minus 31 degrees Celsius, reports the Moscow Times. “According to the Fobos meteorological center, a weather…
An unprecedented act of civil disobedience took place on New Year’s eve in Tbilisi, Georgia. Leaders of the center-right party “Girchi,” along with several dozen civil activists, planted cannabis seeds on-air on the evening of 31 December, intentionally breaching the current law and facing 12 years imprisonment, according to…