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Georgia Erases Its Historical Debt to Russia: A Turning Point in Post-Soviet Economic Independence

Georgia has officially closed one of the last remaining chapters of its post-Soviet financial history: the repayment of its longstanding debt to Russia.

Georgia seeks to reinvent tea industry once famed across the Soviet Union

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Georgia's tea

Georgia seeks to reinvent tea industry once famed across the Soviet Union

When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Now the tea industry looks set to begin again after it fell into disrepair when independence was declared in 1991 after centuries of Russian rule.

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