Yana Israelyan
Yana Israelyan. has been working as a journalist for over seven years. She has graduated from the journalism school of RFERL. In 2009 she won a prize from Fond of Population of UN for the best article. She has worked as an editor and anchor on the TV channel PIK-Tv. Israelyan has experience of working in radio, newspapers and magazines. She has participated in regional and international multimedia and documentary film projects. Israelyan has attended numerous professional trainings and seminars, and taken part in conferences. Currently, she is in cooperation with local and international media outlets including IWPR, DELFI, TOL, etc.
Author's stories
There are about 700 Roma people in Tbilisi. Mostly, they live compactly in the settlements in Tbilisi: Gachiani, Kobuleti, Kutaisi. The ancestors of the Georgian Roma people were roaming since Stalin refused to allow these Roma people to roam in 1956. The majority of Roma people are orthodox, but there are catholics and muslims as well. To celebrate a holiday is a holy thing. At that time, all Roma people followed these holidays. They can work all year, earn money, and spend them just in one day.
Stalin Refused Them to Roam
Irma Tskipashvili lives in Phshavi (Dusheti, Georgia). She is 41 years old and has nine children. Irma works as a director in a village school with seventeen pupils.
Irma
Parkour, or the art of movement - the urban discipline which is common in big cities. Tracers, who call themselves as the followers of parkour, are also based in Georgia. The journalist Yana Israelyan, visited their training and talked with the Vice-President of the Parkour Federation in Georgia, Vato Gomareli. He told about the development of Parkour in Tbilisi, and what kind of problems they face.
The Urban Discipline - Parkour
French farmer, Jean-Jacques Jacob, moved to Georgia in 2006. He lives in the village of Arghokhi (Kakheti region), where he has his own wheat fields. Jean-Jacques bakes the oldest traditional Georgian bread. Every Saturday, Jean-Jacques comes to the city center of Tbilisi and sells organic products from his and his neighbors' farms.