Multimedia reporter at mtisambebi.ge, a historian by education. Lasha works on topics related to environmental protection, mountainous regions, and social issues. E-mail: [email protected]
News
1932
All three characters of this report live in Upper Svaneti. All of them needed dialysis to live. Two of them left Svaneti, the third left and died aged 55. The National Dialysis Program in Georgia started in 1996, but the…
News
1109
She visits two-hundred-year-old machub, looking at Ushba every day. She walks around the decaying house, peeps inside from the nailed-up door, weeps, and returns to her relatives’ house, where she lives now. The last of Berchlianis is 83. Her family…
Lonely
1453
Nino Barnabishvili first knew of Paata Khakhiauri from a report in “Mtis Ambebi.” “Mtis Ambebi” also helped him buy furniture and domestic technology for the house he built this year. The newly-married couple will be the first in 20 years…
News
1018
Gia, 11 has a blood lead level of 104 μg/dL (micrograms per deciliter), 20 times higher than the blood lead reference value for children – 5. Giorgi, 9, also has a blood lead level 12 times higher than average. Both…
Nature
1246
From November to May, when the stream level in Enguri bed declines, he stands in the water the whole day, prospecting for gold. Once, he even found a 22-gram nugget. He was 15 when he started gold panning and has…
News
1046
Anyone who visits the village of Iri can’t fail to recognize Vasil Maisuradze’s house. It’s the one with the big blue flag dotted with gold stars on the fence. If you were to ask him about it, he’d likely reply:…