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Georgia’s female chess team wins coveted European tournament

Georgia might be home to smartest women in the world. This assumption was given strong validation after a female team of Georgian chess players won the European Chess Club Cup held in Macedonia’s capital Skopje on October 17-25. This result was the latest achievement of Georgia’s national female chess team, who became World Champions earlier this year. NONA chess club from Georgia won all seven of their matches and were crowned European champions at the Macedonian competition. With this result the Georgian club won the European Club Cup for the second time in a row.

Europe | Georgia | Politics

Tamar Beruchashvili: Georgia attaches particular importance to women’s political participation

Source: The Financial

Tamar Beruchashvili highlighted that Georgia, on its path towards democratic development, attaches particular significance to women’s political participation at the legislative, as well as executive levels of government. “The Effective and smooth functioning of both democratic and political systems is hardly conceivable without the women involvement in the decision-making process". The Georgian Foreign Ministry welcomes the fact that Georgia has declared 2015 the year of women. Tamar Beruchashvili emphasised the Georgian Foreign Ministry, in cooperation with the EU and international orga