For the next week, the Kurds are based at hotel Aitar, a shabby, Soviet-era complex on Sukhumi's southern outskirts, alongside other teams and bewildered groups of Russian tourists.
One of the highlights of A Needle Walks into a Haystack, the enjoyably bewildering group show at the core of the latest Liverpool Biennial, is a group of three film animations by Brussels-based German artist.
At a field centre in Shrewsbury he learns how to navigate his way around a fly, pursues winter gnats over a garden compost-heap and gets to grips with the finer points of fungus gnats, a bewildering group of several hundred species most of which are less than 5mm long.
It's a largely bewildered, frightened group that includes people like Dorothy Levey, a 79-year-old widow who sits alone inside the small house she has lived in for 41 years, afraid to answer the telephone or the door.
Tigers: are you telling me you would drop the symbol of power?" An alliance of bewildered supporters' groups has protested, without success so far.
But I have the sinking feeling that when President Obama announces his plans for Afghanistan, the consequence of the media diet that the average American consumes will be that most people listening to him will know more about Levi Johnston's three-week moose meat diet and workout plan than about those bewildering terrorist groups with all those q's.
The news, announced by Mr. Trump at a news conference on Wednesday, left many veterans groups bewildered but pleased.
But the effort to get planning permission foundered against opposition from bewildered churches, community groups and city councils, and funding vanished when the scheme was almost through planning.
("We have a saying in Arkansas: If you find a turtle on a fence post, he didn't get there by accident," Mr. Clinton told a group of bewildered nurses in Kigali).
At one point, a smaller bus pulled up as photographers and police anticipated the exit of notorious criminals, only to erupt in laughter when a group of bewildered Chinese tourists unwittingly poured onto the sidewalk and into the spotlight of the underworld wedding of the year.
