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Presidential Order Of Excellence
The Presidential Order of Excellence is an award given by the President of Georgia to individuals in culture, education, science, art, sport, and other fields, for significant achievements and meritorious service for Georgia. The award was established on July 31, 2009 by the Parliament of Georgia and is accompanied by an additional monetary award of 1,000 Georgian lari. Recipients Individuals awarded in 2010 In 2010, the Presidential Order of Excellence was awarded by President Mikheil Saakashvili to 55 individuals. These included the Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, Guram Dochanashvili, Iliko Sukhishvili, Ekaterine Meiering-Mikadze, Davit Darchiashvili, Roland Akhalaia, Mamuka Khazaradze, Nino Ananiashvili, Nani Bregvadze, Paata Burchuladze, Iulon Gagoshidze, Vladimer Gurgenidze, Niaz Diasamidze, Irakli Ezugbaia, Nikoloz Vacheishvili, Ekaterine Zghuladze, Ramaz Nikolaishvili, Nino Sukhishvili, Ilia Sukhishvili, and Jemal Tchkuaseli. Individuals awarded in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niaz Diasamidze
Niaz Diasamidze ( ka, ნიაზ დიასამიძე; born 13 June 1973) is a Georgian musician, singer, songwriter, calligrapher and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of 33a. Niaz was born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia. In 1994 he founded folk and pop rock band 33a, name of band comes from the address – 33a, Paliashvili street, where Diasamidze lives. Filmography As composer * 2014 Tiflisi (TV Series) (original music by) * 2014 Tbilisi, I Love You * 2013 Tangerines The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name ''Citrus tangerina'' or ''Citrus'' × ''tangerina'', or treated as a variety of ''Citrus retic ... * 2012 Bolo Gaseirneba * 2011 Guli + * 2009 Tbilisuri Love Story * 2009 The Conflict Zone (original music by) * 2008 Utsnobi jariskatsebi (Documentary) * 2007 Subordinacia * 2005 Tbilisi-Tbilisi * 1997 Otsn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Richard Dixon
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gela Charkviani
Gela Charkviani ( ka, გელა ჩარკვიანი; 1 March 1939 – 9 November 2021) was a Georgian diplomat, writer, educator, and television personality. Early life Gela Charkviani was born in Tbilisi on 1 March 1939 into the family of Kandid Charkviani, a leader of the Georgian Communist Party who had been accused in the Mingrelian Affair under Joseph Stalin, and his ophthalmologist wife Tamar Djaoshvili. He studied architecture at the Georgian Technical University and eventually graduated from the Chavchavadze Institute of Foreign Languages. Gela Charkviani's post-graduate studies included a semester at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1970, a period regarded as the peak of the Youth Revolution in the United States. The time spent at Ann Arbor, in Charkviani's opinion, has caused a major shift in his worldview. Television career For 25 years thereafter Gela Charkviani taught English and later on, Sociology at the Chavchavadze Foreign Languages Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgi Nizharadze
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Giorgi may refer to: * Giorgi (name), a Georgian masculine given name * Giorgi (surname), an Italian surname * Giorgi family, a noble family of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa See also * Giorgio (other) * Di Giorgi * George (other) * Zorzi The House of Zorzi or Giorgi was a noble family of Venetian origin. They thrived in the Late Middle Ages, especially in the remnants of the Latin Empire in Greece, where they controlled the Margraviate of Bodonitsa and through marriage the Duc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Kokoškov
Igor Stefan Kokoškov ( sr-Cyrl, Игор Стефан Кокошков; born December 17, 1971) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He had spent 19 years in the NBA as an assistant coach, with a brief stint as head coach for the Phoenix Suns for a full season. He spent a season in Turkey with Fenerbahçe, before returning to the NBA to become an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks in 2021. Kokoškov was the first European to be a full-time assistant coach in NCAA Division I college basketball, and the first non-American to hold such a position in the NBA. In 2004, he became the first non-American assistant coach to win an NBA championship, and the first to serve on an NBA All-Star Game coaching staff. He is also the first coach born and raised outside of North America to be hired as a head coach in the NBA. He won EuroBasket 2017, while working as the head coach of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For Development Of Freedom Of Information
The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) - is a Georgian non-governmental organization which tends to support the development of an informed and empowered society for democratic governance. IDFI promotes human rights and good governance by raising civic awareness through sound informational reports, research and recommendations; Advocates for initiating & implementing reforms of policies, laws and practices to enhance democratic governance. The organization was founded in 2009 by two historians/researchers Levan Avalishvili and Giorgi Kldiashvili. History The idea to create IDFI was born during an international conference that was periodically hosted by Levan Avalishvili and Giorgi Kldiashvili in Georgia since 2005. The conference was supported by the American non-governmental research organization National Security Archive, George Washington University. The conference involved participants, which included local and foreign historians, archive researchers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemal Tchkuaseli
Jemal, Djemal or Dzhemal (Georgian: ჯემალ, (Arabic: جمل) may refer to the following notable people: ;Given name * Jemal Azmi (1868–1922), Ottoman politician *Jemal Gokieli (1920–1991), Georgian conductor * Jemal Gubaz (born 1968), football player from Abkhazia * Jemal Inaishvili, the Deputy Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia *Jemal Johnson (born 1985), American-English football player *Dzhemal Kherhadze (1945–2019), Georgian football player and coach * Jemal Kurshubadze (born 1997), Belarusian football player *Jemal Gamakharia (born 1949), Georgian politician *Dzhemal Kyzylatesh (born 1994), Turkish-born Ukrainian football midfielder *Djemal Pasha (1872–1922), mayor of Istanbul *Jemal Singleton (born 1975), American football coach *Jemal Tabidze (born 1996), Georgian football player *Jemal Zeinklishvili (1937–2011), Georgian football player **Jemal Zeinklishvili Stadium, multi-use stadium in Borjomi, Georgia ;Surname *Ahmedin Jemal, American cancer epidemio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilia Sukhishvili
Ilia may refer to: Science and medicine *''Apatura ilia'' or lesser purple emperor, a butterfly *Ilium (bone) (plural: "ilia"), pelvic bone People * Ilia (name), numerous **Ilia II, the current Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Places *Ilia, Hunedoara, Romania *Elis (regional unit), Greece * Elis Province, Greece Arts and literature *Ilia, a character in ''Idomeneo'', an opera by Mozart *Ilia (The Legend of Zelda), a character in the video game ''The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess'' * Ilia (''Star Trek''), a character in ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' *Ilia, a nation of the continent Elibe from the ''Fire Emblem'' series *Ilia the Righteous, a prominent figure of new Georgian literature *Rhea Silvia or Ilia, the mother of Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology Other *Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, a nonprofit institution *Ilia (band), a rock band *Arturo Umberto Illia (1900–1983), former president of Argentina See also *Elia (other) *Ilija (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Sukhishvili
Nino or Niño may refer to: *Nino (name) *Niño (name) *Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court justice whose nickname was "Nino" *El Niño, a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean *NINO, an abbreviation for National Insurance number in the United Kingdom *Niño, the smallest conga drum * "Niño" (Belanova song), 2005 * "Niño" (Ed Maverick song), 2021 * ''Nino'' (novel), a 1938 children's novel by Valenti Angelo * ''Niño'' (TV series), a 2014 Philippine TV series *Philips Nino, a PDA-style device *The Netherlands Institute for the Near East See also *El Niño (other) *Santo Niño (other) *Ninos (other) *Niños (other) *Cyclonic Niño *Niño Jesús Niño Jesús is an administrative neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 ... * Cave of Niño {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramaz Nikolaishvili
Ramaz Nikolaishvili (Georgian: რამაზ ნიკოლაიშვილი; born June 17, 1965) is a Georgian politician who has served as Governor of Guria and Deputy Minister of Defense in 2008, Chairman of the Roads Department in 2008-2010, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development in 2010-2012, and a member of Parliament since 2012. Starting his career in domestic intelligence through his work for the Financial Police where he led investigations into currency counterfeiting, he was appointed to serve a brief term in 2008 as Governor of Guria, before becoming Deputy Minister of Defense during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Becoming Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure in 2010, he became one of the most popular members of the Saakashvili administration, leading the government's massive infrastructure jobs program meant to address Georgia's response to the 2008-2009 global recession. In office, he was responsible for the completion of several hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
