In their mountain fastness the people of Svaneti have managed to preserve an ... will carry flaming birch branches through the snow and lay them next to her grave. Toasts and prayers will be ...

Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional ... with a natural environment of gorges and alpine valleys and a backdrop of snow-covered mountains. The ...

When I heard from the Margianis about their big mountains covered ... times to dig through snow drifts—and finally arrived in ...

A story of the Ukrainian peacekeepers who arrived in 1993 in Georgia, where the war with the Abkhaz was going on. Fifteen helicopters from the Ukrainian side reached their destination in just ...