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Pictures from Tbilisi

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As promised, here are some more pictures from Tbilisi.
On the highway between Tbilisi and Gori, we passed several newly built settlements for the IDPs of last summer’s war between Georgia and Russia. I took the picture from the moving bus, so it is not very clear. On the right you can see the white houses with their red roofs. There were long rows of these houses, with nothing else nearby, located on open fields close to the highway. The settlements reminded me very much of the domiks put up in the northern-Armenian town of Spitak after the devastating earthquake of December 7, 1988. Those were supposed to be temporary living spaces, but now, twenty years after the earthquake, people are still living in these prefab constructions. I don’t know if the settlements I saw in Georgia are supposed to be temporary or permanent, though I am under the impression they are permanent.

Below are some pictures I took of the opposition’s permanent demonstration site on Rustaveli Avenue and the “prison cells” they put up on Rustaveli and on Freedom Square in the center of Tbilisi (the ones on Freedom Square have apparently been removed).

Finally, on a lighter note, I saw this sign in the garden surrounding Metekhi Church.
There are more pictures at my Flickr-page.


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