It was a priviledge to be a member of the defense committee: Congratulations to Jesse Wichers Schreur on defending his very interesting PhD thesis on Tsova-Tush — Intense language contact in Eastern Georgia: The case of Tsova-Tush at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The thesis compares Tsova-Tush, Chechen and Ingush and the influence of Georgian on Tsova-Tush in different domains and during different periods. The thesis has been supervised by Prof. Gerd Carling (Frankfurt) and Prof Gilles Authier (Paris). The defense was conducted in hybrid mode from Frankfurt.