My Publications In English

PRESERVATION OR INNOVATION? A DEBATE RAGES AS GEORGIAN CUISINE GOES GLOBAL

Georgia’s rich cuisine is gaining popularity with foodies around the world. But at home, the debate about the future of the food-preservation or innovation-is far from decided.  Appeared in [vc_social_links […]

NIKO PIROSMANI IN VIENNA: A «BRIDGE» TO GEORGIAN CULTURE

One of the world’s most famous art museums, Albertina, located in Vienna, has been displaying 29 works of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani since October 26. This exhibition, which is […]

GASTRONOMIC PARADISE GEORGIA

Whoever wants to actively explore this world does not need to travel to the far end of it, as miracles might be waiting for us nearby, and we only need […]

GEORGIAN BALLET, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

Those who have lived in Georgia even for a short while will surely have noticed how artistic and expressive the Georgian people are. For instance, it is hardly possible to […]

My Funny Soviet School Life

from “Tales about my Soviet childhood”   My Teachers My childhood winters were snowbound, sunny, frosty and they lasted long. Thick snow layer was covering the earth at least three […]

MY GERMAN WORLD

As a child, each time I heard “fasсists” I thought of the Germans, and for me they were evil, brutal and merciless people. The Germans were our enemies in the […]

MY BROTHER

How I became an ‘already big girl’   From “Tales from my Soviet childhood”   It happened 35 years ago to the day. I remember it clearly as if it […]

Two Girls In The Realm of Fears

We all must confront our fears in our lives. Some of us learn to overcome our terrors quickly and then have no need to deal with them. Others face fears […]

A Short Kiev Christmas Story

The story starts just before the New Year in Kiev, a town living in a sort of inflated mood with not a thought about what would happen to it in […]

Georgia: Seven years ago there was a war

August 08, 2015 Tatjana Montik Report from the unrecognized border Today marks seven years since the beginning of the Russian-Georgian war, a few days blitzkrieg the consequences of which extend […]