{"podcast":{"title":"The Caucasus Digest","slug":"the-caucasus-digest-5573317","podcast_index_feed_id":5573317,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/422300/rss","website_url":"https://oc-media.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/f/c/0/8fc0e7038681ac93d959afa2a1bf1c87/The_Caucasus_Digest_2.png","author":"OC Media","episode_count":107,"summary":"Your weekly view into the Caucasus region with the OC Media team. Every week, we break down some of the biggest topics in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Russian North Caucasus.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T06:17:03.069059+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317"},"episode":{"title":"Georgian Dream's assault on queer rights","slug":"georgian-dream-s-assault-on-queer-rights","published_at":"2024-06-18T11:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/georgian-dream-s-assault-on-queer-rights","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317","url":"https://oc-media.org/podcasts/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/f59a01ea-d423-4704-9c1a-30fa207da38f/CD_85_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=3509927","summary":"The ruling Georgian Dream party has introduced a legislative package that would ban 'LGBT propaganda', potentially setting back decades of progress on queer rights in the country. This week, we speak to OC Media staff writer Shota Kincha about the contents of the law, to Tbilisi Pride's director Tamar Jakeli about the future of the queer rights movement in light of the law, and to filmmaker Eka Tsotsoria about how the law could censor the arts. Read more: Georgian Dream to introduce queerphobic legislation Support independent journalism in the Caucasus and become an OC Media Member: Join today . …or donate to the collective Georgian media security fund .","meta_description":"The ruling Georgian Dream party has introduced a legislative package that would ban 'LGBT propaganda', potentially setting back decades of progress on que…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2369,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/episodes/georgian-dream-s-assault-on-queer-rights/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-caucasus-digest-5573317/georgian-dream-s-assault-on-queer-rights.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}