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...Georgia’s reluctance to freeze the assets of a former official accused by the US of being a Russian agent is further testing Tbilisi’s ties with the west....
...She often pointed out that while her predecessors could deploy suits and power ties – not to mention whiskers and beards – there was no foreign policy manual to guide her on how to use her sense of style...
...In this FT article, Nadia Beard drew attention to government pressure on independent cultural institutions in Georgia....
...It is also likely to further strain the west’s relations with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which is nominally pro-European but has ties to Russia and has depicted Saakashvili as a “Nazi” who should never...
...In 1869, the American physician, George Miller Beard, popularised a new disease called “neurasthenia” with a peculiar cause: modern life....
...Benson plugged in the Ionic box and took a deep breath and the whorls of his Santa beard fluttered when he exhaled....
...His ties are uniformly both good and good fun, and go well — while obviously not matching — with his pocket squares. His club ties (thick, diagonal stripes) are particularly well chosen....
...European Georgia, said the commission’s recommendation amounted to Georgia’s “Yanukovych moment” — a reference to Ukraine’s then president who scuppered an EU association agreement in favour of closer ties...
...Downing Street tried to prevent Mary Beard, the eminent classicist, from becoming a trustee of the British Museum because of her opposition to Brexit....
...He’s got dark floppy hair, a stubbly beard, and he talks with the unassuming calmness of a Gallic Colombo. He doesn’t miss a trick....
...“Ty vernulsya — you’re back!” “Ilya?” “Da! Da!” he said, waving us forward. “Look at our republic!”...
...He wears his rusty mane pulled back into a ponytail and grooms his beard so that it juts to a demonic point....
...With his extravagant beard and wild rhetoric, Alexander Dugin has found it easy to attract attention. Some have even labelled the far-right philosopher “Putin’s brain” or “Rasputin”....
...Meanwhile Alex Beard believes that “acts of solidarity and regime sanction are cumulative and systemic....
...A group of Lumumba lookalikes wore tailored suits, thin ties and semi-rimless glasses, their hair neatly parted to one side. “Lumumba is the Jesus of Africa, we need to pray to him!”...
...Their patriotism is displayed proudly: Union Jacks festoon ties, socks and cardigans....
...Even candidates with no ties to the anti-graft campaigner have been kept out of the election....
...Lasso, the genial transplant from the Midwest to leafy south-west London, is undaunted by the team’s seven consecutive ties: “We gon’ get a W soon!”...
...He appears more pragmatic and wants the Taliban to establish the international ties and trade needed to revive the country’s economy....
...To sceptics: It’s worth remembering the progress beards have made among white-collar professions in the past decade....
...Take beards....
...The deal expands Ratcliffe’s ties into rugby....
...Reach has long worked to build close ties with local families, nonprofits, health and social services and that has made it a focal point of relief in the pandemic....
...Even so, the teasing of hipster Brooklyn with its conspicuous beards and non-dairy alternatives — “You name it, they’re milking it” — has the feel of a project stuck just too long in development, loaded...
...Family ties tangle....
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