Using the word ‘abortion’ has always been considered an indecorous turn of the tongue in this culture: good moms and dads would feel uncomfortable, for instance, if their well-bread kids used this ‘impolite’ word publicly; a prim and prudish teacher would tell off a certain loutish student provided the word was used freely when at school; a lady of self-respect would goggle her eyes in indignation at an uncouth admirer if the unfortunate guy blurted out that ‘swearword’ incidentally. Why? Was there something so terribly unpleasant about the word? Could be, but no longer is this the case in Georgia! This recent Easter, Georgia started not only using the word publicly and unreservedly, but has embarked on discussing the abortion extensively.

Lado Gudiashvili is the 20th century eminent Georgian painter. He is this Nation’s pride and wealth, whose outstanding legacy is lovingly praised by the entire contemporary Georgia and treasured in our hearts and minds forever.

All my friends and relatives know that McDonald’s is not my favorite place to have my appetite quenched at because fast food in general is not what I would die for.

Level of education as such, including its content and quality, always leaves a lot to desire whenever and wherever in the world this education is taking place. Education is never enough and it is never satisfactory, never completely up to the point and never fully compatible with the requirements of time.

Most of the tools for making money have already been invented by man. Probably! Well, some of these tools come and go, but some are so strong and proven that they persistently stay in place almost for good. Cooperatives make exactly this kind of an instrument for generating income. Using the now obsolescent Soviet type of vocabulary, it was called CEKAVSHIRI in the Georgian language, meaning Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives.

The Magna Carta of England of 1215 proclaimed certain liberties, and emphasized that the king could no longer rule arbitrarily.

The building looks gorgeous both inside and out, and impresses beyond any doubt. On the television at least! The transparent greenish glass coating outside and the snow-white parliamentary scenery inside makes this ultra-modern architectural complex a real eye-catcher.

I remember like yesterday my 1990 stint in Hollywood, meant to create the so called ‘Nug-Story’ about the Hollywood Walk of Fame for WXIA TV-Atlanta, for which I had worked for several years as part of Georgia-to-Georgia journalistic exchange right at the start of that ill-famed Perestroika (reconstruction) in the Soviet Union.

Questions, questions, questions! Hundreds of questions! Unanswered, incorrectly posed, not-yet-asked ones! Smart, up-to-the-point, reasonable ones! Thick, irrational, ludicrous ones! Questions all the way! Questions all the time!