🇬🇪✊🇪🇺 The results of the “Home to Europe” action, which turned into an opposition movement to dismiss the government.
The third rally gathered less people than the previous two, but still a lot. Today there were more young people, angry and harsh posters against Putin and Prime Minister Garibashvili. Several tens of thousands of participants listened to the speakers who spoke about European integration, respect and dignity of the Georgian nation, about the desire to move forward and develop.
What is happening and what are the plans of the protesters:
📍 The action has been declared indefinite: some of the protesters remain at the parliament, blocking Rustaveli Avenue, and several dozen people block the government office and promise that tomorrow there will be many more people
📍 some of the participants went to the office of the ruling party, where one of the Georgian Dream deputies jumped out and swore at the protesters, but was quickly taken away by colleagues to the building
📍 there are a lot of police on the streets, special forces are on duty near the administrative buildings of Tbilisi
❗️About 1000-3000 people actively participate in night movements. In the morning, they plan to continue the actions, seek the resignation of the government and demand the creation of a new structure of national accord.

✊ Protests in Tbilisi, second day.
About 200-300 protesters tried to block the entrance to the government office, but the police pushed them away from the entrance and warned that all people interfering with the work of state institutions would be detained from now on. It seems that the audience does not have a serious plan, especially since the officials have already entered the building. There are few protesters, there are a lot of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The prospects for a rise in protest, or the belief that they can make a difference, are very slim.

🎼 A concert of the famous Georgian polyphony performed by the patriarchal choir was held in the Sistine Chapel.
The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, who was present at the performance, talked to the members of the choir and said that "Georgia has very good music and wine."
The full concert is here.

🇬🇪🏀🇪🇸 The Georgian basketball team in overtime sensationally won the qualifying match for the World Cup in Tbilisi against the Spanish team - the reigning champion and the second team in the FIBA ​​rating.
🎉 Hot fight with a full stadium! Congratulations to the Georgian team!

📈 According to Sakstat, in June 2022, the annual inflation rate in Georgia was 12.8%.
Top 10 products for which prices increased the most (compared to the same period last year).
Basically, these are vegetables and fruits:
📍Plums 119%
📍Grapes 87%
📍Green beans 73
📍Peaches 69%
📍Watermelon 59
📍Corn flour 54%;
📍Diesel fuel 53%;
📍Margarine 52%
📍Potato 47%
📍Tomatoes 46%

🦠 An outbreak of new cases of coronavirus is recorded in Georgia.
Over the past week, the number of identified infected people has increased by 2.5 times.
📊 Coronavirus statistics for the past (from 28.06 to 04.07) week:
2570 new cases (1512)
1103 recovered
3 died
The CDC is looking into all cases for new strains.
💉 Director of the center Amiran Gamkrelidze said that "we need to be vaccinated so that we can meet autumn calmly."
At the moment, 45.1% of the adult population has been vaccinated in Georgia.

🇬🇪⛲️ Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili spoke about the investment project "New Life of Tskhaltubo".
The Georgian government is putting up for sale 14 sanatoriums, the cost of which is estimated at 50 million lari (~$16 million). According to the prime minister, "it is expected that another $150 million will be invested in the project and Tskhaltubo will become a modern world-class balneological resort."

🇬🇪❓🇪🇺 The ruling party "Georgian Dream" spoke about the possible terms of joining the EU.
"If we receive candidate status in December, we have the prospect of becoming a member of the European Union by 2032-2034. Forecasts made regarding Ukraine and Moldova are less optimistic, despite the fact that for political reasons they received candidate status before us" - party chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said on evening television.

📈⛽️ Diesel is getting more expensive in Georgia: prices for this type of fuel have increased by 10% over the past month and continue to increase.
Only in the last 10 days, fuel prices in the Wissol network have been changed to 19 tetri and a liter costs 4.76 lari, in the Gulf network the increase was 10 tetri.
“The situation with diesel fuel is critically difficult, because world prices for diesel fuel have grown significantly, the second factor is big supply problems. There has been no delivery from Azerbaijan for more than 2 months. The reason is the technical re-equipment of their plant. 40-45% of diesel in Georgia was supplied from there,” explained Mtvralashvili, head of the Union of Oil Products Importers.

🍉🚫 Food Agency urges to be careful when buying watermelons in Georgia.
The agency has identified elevated levels of nitrates in the fruit.
The inspectors tested 12 samples taken from wholesalers and retailers across the country in the laboratory, and the content of nitric acid salts was found to be above the norm in all.

🇬🇪📊 The National Tourism Administration has published detailed statistics for June 2022.
Over the past month, 387,781 foreigners (173,000 by May) visited Georgia.
Citizens of which countries arrived in comparison with the same period last year and by May:
🇷🇺Russia - 90239 (+503%) +39 thousand by May
🇹🇷Turkey - 62192 ( +10%) +2k
🇦🇲Armenia – 61974 (+365%) +19k
🇮🇱Israel - 20555 (+30%) +2 thousand
🇺🇦Ukraine - 15273 (+1%) - same with May
🇰🇿Kazakhstan - 14368 (+96%) +4 thousand people
🇦🇿Azerbaijan - 13067 (+89%) +1 thousand people
⚪️🔴⚪️Belarus – 12284 (+222%) +3 thousand people
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 10372 (+72%) +2k
🇮🇷 Iran - 9454 (+599%) +2 thousand people
ℹ️ The overall level of tourism has increased by 164% compared to 2021, but is only 53% of the pre-pandemic 2019.

🇬🇪🛫 The Union of Georgian Airports reported that the passenger traffic at the Kutaisi airport was equal to the pre-pandemic 2019, and the number of flights even increased.
June 2019 - 76208 passengers (247 flights)
June 2022 - 76052 passengers (298 flights)
ℹ️ At the moment, five airlines fly from Kutaisi to 14 countries (25 cities), but the main ones are three carriers: WizzAir, Belavia, FlyArystan.
Living in Georgia, I recommend the first airline. I personally traveled to Italy for 40 euros round-trip, there were tickets to Abu Dhabi for 18 GEL one way. In autumn there are cheap flights (29-59 GEL) to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Larnaca, Athens, Budapest and Polish cities.

🦠 The number of new cases of coronavirus in Georgia causes concern among doctors.
The head of the Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze, recommends that citizens wear masks indoors. Earlier, the head of the immunization expert group, Ivane Chkhaidze, said that “it is possible that wearing masks indoors will become necessary again due to the increase in infection with new types of coronavirus, the omicron-strain of coronavirus.”
📈 Over the past 2 weeks, the number of cases of covid-19 infection in Georgia has increased five times.

👨‍🦳🧑‍🦳 Pensioners with dual citizenship, one of which is Georgian, will be able to receive a pension simultaneously in two countries.
Previously, such citizens could receive a pension in only one country - for this they had to make a choice and draw up documents in the social service.
Starting this year, pensions in Georgia will be paid even if a citizen receives social benefits in another country.
ℹ️ The changes are regulated by the 310th government decree of June 13, 2022.

🇬🇷👮🏻‍♂️🇬🇪 Thief in law special operation completed in Greece - citizens of Georgia were detained.
Together with 13 Georgian citizens, Greek law enforcement officers arrested a criminal authority - Kako Bilanishvili. The 72-year-old thief in law was the leader of a criminal gang. All detainees were charged with theft, robbery and racketeering.
ℹ️ Criminal authorities in Greece are detained regularly and conflicts between them also occur quite often. The last case was in January of this year, when in Athens, in front of his son, the leader of the Kutaisi thieves in law, Shota Tevdoradze, was shot dead, and a month before, in December 2021, another thief in law, Levan Khavtasi, was arrested.

😷🚫 Mandatory mask regime in Georgia, despite the increase in the number of cases of covid-19, will not be introduced in the summer.
According to the chief infectious disease specialist Tengiz Tsertsvadze, "Georgian society is not set up for protective measures - neither for vaccination, nor for wearing masks, which means that we need to come to terms with the fact that the number of cases will grow."
ℹ️ Over the past week, the number of new cases of infection in Georgia has increased by 2.5 times, and up to 700 new cases are recorded per day.

☀️🥵 In Tbilisi, the air temperature will rise above 40°C.
According to weather forecasts for July, hot weather has come to the capital: during the whole month, the thermometers will rise above 35 °, and sometimes even 40 °, during the day. At the same time, rains are expected only after the 24th.

🇷🇺↔️🇬🇪 The Russian State Duma allowed the possibility of lifting the visa regime for Georgian citizens and returning direct flights.
"I think it's time to cancel the visa regime and restore air traffic. We will make every effort to cancel or simplify the visa regime this year," said Kazbek Taisaev, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
ℹ️ The visa regime between the countries was introduced in 2000, and in September 2008, after the war, Georgia severed diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation, but four years later, in 2012, the visa regime for Russians was canceled.
✈️ Direct flights between the countries have been closed since July 2019 at the Russian initiative due to anti-Putin protests and actions in Tbilisi.

🏦 From 07/11/2022, it will be possible to register certain taxes and services in electronic form in Georgia.
The revenue service of the Ministry of Finance stated that in order to encourage electronic filing of applications and popularize remote services during a visit to service centers, registration of citizens' applications will be additionally introduced:
📍 assignment of the status of a small business to an individual entrepreneur
📍 issuance of information about own income to an individual
📍registration as a VAT payer
📲 60,000 individuals have already been sent informational SMS to mobile numbers registered in the electronic system of the Revenue Service.

👮🏻‍♂️💉Together with the resumption of the topic of covid in June, news about vaccination comes, but this time not from the Ministry of Health, but from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A nurse was detained in the Samegrelo region for forging information for electronic databases about an allegedly vaccinated for 300 lari ($100). At the moment, 15 citizens are known to have used this “service”, but the investigation is ongoing and the number of people may increase.
For this malfeasance, a physician faces 3 to 5 years in prison.

👮🏻‍♂️❗️👩🏻 The first half of the year in Georgia is especially marked by crimes against women: murders and attempts on wives, including public ones, unfortunately, have become a monthly phenomenon.
Yesterday, a man with a knife attacked his ex-wife in the center of Zugdidi, in front of common children. The murder was interrupted by passers-by and police officers. This week in the capital, a man killed his wife with a hammer. Last week in Kutaisi, a husband killed his wife right on the street. In May of this year, two cases occurred in Tbilisi at once when husbands attacked their wives with knives: one of the women was killed in front of the children on the bus, her husband stabbed her ten times. The second was injured at a bus stop - she was saved.
ℹ️ Domestic violence in 2021 ranks second (!) in Georgia among all crimes committed - 4100 (only 72% were solved). It is not customary to talk about it publicly, but in private conversations, many say that this problem exists in society.