Irakli Zurab Kakabadze's blog

One week after the bombings in Boston and I still feel the urge to write about this so much.

Zviad K. Gamsakhurdia wrote his work “Dilemma for Humanity” just before his imprisonment in 1977.

Nino Chubinishvili has created her own Alter-Modern world in Tbilisi.

Naira Gelashvili is in her own right one of the leading Georgian writers and literary critics of last 40 years or so.   Her writings have been very popular and controversial through the last 25 years when she came out as one of the leaders of Georgia's Green movement and at the same time defending rights of minorities through the Caucasus.

October 1st saw once again that liberalism does not equal democracy.

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”  --George Orwell

It is already 20 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union.  We were the generation who was filled with hope in 1989, who expected great transformation of the world after the demise of the totalitarian state.  We expected so much.

You may know that a Russian Court has sentenced Russian poets Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Santsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to two more months in prison. Amnesty International has declared them prisoners of conscience.

Here we are in the 21st century and there is a new revolt in the former Soviet Space.  Both Giorgi Maisuradze and Russian Punk Rock group Pussy Riot come from the former Soviet Empire.  They do not miss Lenin nor Stalin.  Maisuradze might be Tr