Author: Ekaterine Vachnadze

Georgia plays its first home game of the 2023-24 season this Friday against ACC team Wake Forest. Friday is a chance for Georgia basketball to right the ship early in the 2023-24 campaign. The Bulldogs lost its season opener to Oregon by double-digits Monday night, nut they host an ACC opponent in Wake Forest this Friday in the friendlier confines of Stegman Coliseum. Here’s what Georgia needs to do right Friday to pick up the victory over the Demon Deacons. Shoot Better Seems obvious right? You can’t win if you don’t make shots. That’s especially important for a team filled with…

For the third straight season in a row, the Georgia Bulldogs have clinched the SEC’s Eastern division. Punching their ticket to Atlanta for the 2023 SEC Championship.  The Dawgs clinched the division after the Tennessee Volunteers suffered a loss to the Missouri Tigers earlier this afternoon. With the loss, there is no mathematical possibility that the Volunteers, even though the Bulldogs have yet to defeat their opponent for the day, the Ole Miss Rebels. The Bulldogs and Volunteers will face off next Saturday in Leyland Stadium.  Since the Vols lost earlier in the day, Georgia did not need to win…

Azerbaijan needs to diversify its economy away from fossil fuels. One of the ways this can be achieved is by investing in human capital in rural areas. A transit hub since Silk Road times, Azerbaijan’s strategic location on the Caspian Sea between Russia, Iran, Armenia, and Georgia rewarded it with easy trade access to China, Central Asia, and Europe even before the discovery of its vast fossil fuel reserves. Marco Polo wrote that oil from the Absheron peninsula was burned for heat and exported to the Middle East, and the world’s first industrial exaction of oil from a drilled…

As the war in Israel rages, an ongoing struggle to control the narrative of the conflict is unfolding between Hamas and the Jewish state. This propaganda battle is not novel, as it has long been observed to coexist with the kinetic action between Israel and the Palestinian armed groups, dating back to at least 2014. Drawing from its prior clashes with Israel, Hamas has gained vital insights on how to effectively counter Israel. Despite being at a military disadvantage in nearly every area, Hamas has developed unconventional methods to attack Israel, including a powerful propaganda system to garner global backing…

United Nations member countries should deny Russia and China seats on the UN Human Rights Council in voting at the UN General Assembly on October 10, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities in both countries have been responsible for numerous crimes against humanity as well as other grave human rights violations, making them fall far short of the membership standards for the UN’s top human rights body. Cuba and Burundi are also running for three-year terms despite not meeting the membership criteria. They have committed systematic human rights violations, including harassment, arbitrary detention and torture of dissidents. Delegations in the 193-nation General Assembly should take all four countries’ abysmal human…

President Vladimir Putin is known to keep a loyal cadre of officials and aides close to him, with the majority of his inner circle having served the Russian leader for many years during his 23 years in power. Putin has made no bones of his expectations of absolute loyalty from those closest to him. Once asked in a wide-ranging 2018 interview whether he was able to forgive people when they made mistakes, Putin replied saying, “Yes. But not everything.” When pressed by journalist Andrei Kondrashov to elaborate on what he could not forgive, Putin’s response was emphatic: “Betrayal.” For those who have worked with the…

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is currently searching off the coast of Charleston for a 31-foot vessel – the Carol Anne — that went missing off of Brunswick Georgia on Wednesday, Oct. 18.  Three boaters are reported to be on the vessel, according to the USCG: Dalton Conway, Caleb Wilkinson and Tyler Barlow. The vessel was supposed to port Tuesday or Wednesday to meet their shipment, but never showed up. The owner of the boat contacted USCG Sector Charleston on Friday to report the missing vessel. The owner said the last communication with the vessel was six days ago. Tania…

The Forbes magazine of Kazakhstan has updated the TOP-50 list of the most influential businessmen in the country. Most of the leaders retained their positions. Kenes Rakishev managed to climb higher and is now, according to the authoritative media, #8 in the list of the most influential businessmen. We’ll look at the success story of Kenes Rakishev and describe his current assets and operations. Forbes describes Kenes Rakishev’s business portfolio as a diversified one. It’s very true statement and, at least for some extent, the recipe of Kenes Rakishev success. He is always in search for new applications of his skills and funds, taking a weighted…

Leaders of the Georgia Senate confirmed they’ll announce Thursday the creation of a Senate subcommittee to investigate conditions at the overcrowded Fulton County Jail. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has called the situation a “humanitarian crisis.” and has partially blamed the jail’s severe overcrowding on the district attorney’s office, saying prosecutors aren’t getting through a backlog of cases fast enough. Fulton County commissioners are considering a $1.7 billion plan to build a replacement facility for the aging jail. In the meantime, the sheriff has requested the approval of an emergency plan to relocate as many as 1,000 inmates to facilities…

Three weeks before the scheduled start of his trial in Fulton County, a defendant in the Georgia election interference case is seeking to have the indictment against him dismissed based on an alleged paperwork error made by one of the lead special prosecutors in the case. Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who drafted legal memos suggesting the use of so-called “alternate electors” to prevent Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes in the 2020 election, is set to go on trial on Oct. 23. But in a filing Wednesday, his attorney alleged that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was brought in by the…