Before the pandemic started, I was invited to give a series of talks at the University of Tbilisi, in the Republic of Georgia. Taking advantage of my day off, I went to visit the Stalin Museum in Gori ...
TBILISI, Georgia — A shiny shard of nose and a crumbling sliver of whiskers from a long-destroyed stone statue are among Grigori Oniani's most prized possessions. That's because the pieces once were ...
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Amid uproar over a depiction of Stalin inside Tbilisi's main cathedral, several prominent monuments to the notorious Soviet dictator are on display throughout Georgia. 1 An Icon of St. Matrona of ...
This is the twenty-third part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald ...
GORI, Georgia — Here are just a few of the fun facts that visitors learn during a guided tour of the Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the former Soviet leader was born. Joseph ...
(CNN) — At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born, a line of guides is waiting to tell you the story of the local boy who made it big. (CNN) — At ...
Gori, Georgia I WAS in the Republic of Georgia, mucking about in its upcoming elections and fighting for democratization and the pro-Western New Rights party. While there, I couldn’t resist a quick ...
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - When Russian bombs began falling on Gori, Robert Maglakelidze took a desperate decision: he loaded his car with a precious consignment and fled along the dangerous road to ...
This Fourth of July, as I was traveling between the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and the mountain spa-town of Borjomi, I made a stop in Gori, a small city of about forty-eight thousand in Georgia’s ...