Message from @Right_Honourable
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Georgia is also physically smaller and the population is concentrated in less space than Hungary
No OpenSocieties money?
so the media in Tbilisi, for example, covers about half the country, while Batumi covers the other half
so everything's dictated by urbanites
there's some Open Society money but not a huge amount
Georgia is a low priority for Soros
but the opposition are happy to parrot that line anyway because they're whores
there's also the wedge issues of Abkhazia/South Ossetia
as long as Russia is occupying those territories it's impossible for any government to completely thaw relations
Russia won't even reopen their embassy here
if I want a Russian visa I'll have to go to Yerevan
And also fly through Yerevan, right?
yep
or Baku, but that requires an e-visa
and stricter laws
Azerbaijan banned the Old Testament at one point because it mentions Armenia
Oooh yeah, that is a hot topic, Armenians cannot even play there when their football club has to visit
Anyways Matt, I'm off to sleep
nice talking
If you have any more questions, I can answer them later, just let me know
@Right_Honourable in Georgia?
tourism and agriculture
Yes
the wine sector is big
Georgia purports to be the birthplace of wine
there's a wine store chain called "8,000 Vintages"
for the 8,000 different varieties of Georgian wine
Tourists from Russia or Europe or both?
overwhelmingly Russia
there's a few Europeans and Americans but not very many
walking down the tourist areas you're more likely to hear Russian, Farsi, or Turkish being spoken than English or any mainland European language
enough so that when I come across people speaking English I always do a double take
georgian wine is top tier
we drink it here in the PMR too
That’s got to be tough to rely essentially on the economies of other countries to be stable enough to keep yours afloat
georgian wine is the best in the world imo
yeah I'm not a wine guy but Georgian wine is pretty good
the best wine/chacha is generally homebrew tho
@Right_Honourable that's pretty much every country in Europe outside of the big powers
Georgia's problem is that it wants to orient to Europe and the West but Russians basically fuel their economy for reasons of geography