On Nov. 22-24 the Arn. Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, TSU and the Georgian Academy of Sciences organized the V International Symposium of Linguists-Caucasologists, in memory of the 120 years anniversary of Academician Arnold Chikobava. 
One of Academician Arnold Chikobava’s former PhD candidates, professor Issa Abdullaev from Makhachkala participated in the conference – here reading his paper (photo, left).
Prof. Karina Vamling, Malmö University, participated in the conference with the paper “On postpositions in Circassian in a typological perspective”. In 1998, she was awarded the Arnold Chikobava prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.