Following Georgia online

Here’s a rough online reading-list, of places to follow whatever happens in Georgia in the next few days

News

  • Eurasianet
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  • Civil.ge
  • Georgia Today
  • Georgian Daily
  • Institute for War and Peace Reporting
  • Google News
  • Georgian TV streams: Maestro, Rustavi-2
  • Russian and Western sources: RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, New York Times
  • Russian-language: Yandex, Livejournal

Blogs

There aren’t so many English-language blogs in Georgia: [Tbilisi Calling](http://caucasusreports.blogspot.com/) and the newish [Tbilisi Blues](http://tbilisiblues.blogspot.com/) are worth mentioning, though.

There is also a very promising project by journalism students at the Georgian School of Public Affairs, who are [covering](http://caucasusreports.wordpress.com/) the protests. See particularly the blogs by [Sherqqizi](http://sherqqizi.wordpress.com/), [Salome Kasradze](http://sakos.wordpress.com/), [Vusula Alibayli](http://alibayli.wordpress.com/) and [Ketevan Vashagashvili](http://ketevan22.wordpress.com/about/). So far these only have a couple of posts each, but the quality is pretty good.

[Global Voices](http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/central-asia-caucasus/georgia/) and [Registan](http://registan.net) are useful when they cover Georgia, which is not all that often. [Here](http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/09/georgia-opposition-protests-2/) is the Global Voices roundup

[@zhvania] lists [some](http://www.forum.ge/), [of](http://forum.internet.ge/) the [forums](http://www.topix.com/forum/ge/tbilisi) with discussion of the demonstrations.


No sign of much on Twitter so far, despite the tweeting from Moldova



Edit

: Georgian twitter has, in fact, suddenly got going in the past day or so. #tbilisi seems to be the most common hashtag. @dv0rsky, @anano are in Georgia, @lingelien and @zhvania from outside. there’s @govtofgeorgia for the official line and @civilge for news. [all in English; there is a little Georgian-language action too]

Background and analysis

  • International Crisis Group
  • World Bank
  • Human Rights Watch
  • UNHCR

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