CNN International has begun its coverage of series on Georgia in its i-List program. `CNN`s new series i-List takes you to a different country each month and highlights innovation and influence in business, technology, culture and more. In April, we visit the Republic of Georgia,` this is how the editor begins the first story about Georgia.
The footage covers the Georgia-Russia relations and says that tens of thousands of Georgians had to flee their homes due to the 2008 August war in South Ossetia breakaway region.
The narrator says that the government constructed a colony near the conflict zone briefly after the war to provide the IDPs with shelter. The guest of the first report on Georgia was Georgian star of NBA, Zaza Pachulia and the second guest - the Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II. In the interview with the reporter, His Holiness recollects his dialogue with the Russian president Medvedev, who spoke about the necessity of secure repatriation of IDPs, however `the words were never fulfilled`.
The reporter also interviewed Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri, recollected the tragedy of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in Vancouver and the simulated news program broadcast on Imedi TV, which caused panic in the society for a couple of minutes, as it reported the new intrusion of Russian forces, but no warning titles were seen on the screen
