After the Revolution

Spend any amount of time in towns and villages in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, and you will begin to wonder something.
Where are all the young people?
I’m not talking about the children. The children are there.
But many of them live with grandparents or a neighbor. Some live alone. It is fairly […]

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The richest citizen of Georgia died suspiciously on Tuesday at the age of 52. 
I wrote about Badri Patarkatsishvili on Jan. 30 and and Jan. 15. He was the billionaire media mogul who supported Georigan President Mikheil Saakashvili during the Rose Revolution but ran against him in the most recent election.
He was in exile, having been accused of plotting a coup after last year’s […]

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