📈🍕 "Khachapuri index" in Georgia increased by 28% over the year.
In June 2022, the average cost of preparing one standard Imeretian khachapuri was 5.39 GEL, which is 28.1% more than in June 2021.
❗️The main driver of the index growth was the increase in the price of cheese, but the price of flour increased the most by 46.1%. Prices for other ingredients also increased: eggs 38.9%, butter 22.7%, milk 13.9%, yeast 13.0%.

🇷🇺➡️🇬🇪➡️🇧🇬Russia will start deliveries of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Bulgaria via Poti in July.
Reuters, based on data from traders and the analytical company Refinitiv Eikon, reports that Russian exporters are forced to look for new routes, and Georgia will become one of them. About 3,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas from Surgut will be delivered by rail to Poti and then by sea ferry to Varna, Bulgaria.
ℹ️ Sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia do not yet apply to gas purchases.

🇬🇪🇪🇺 The European Commission will consider granting Georgia the status of an EU candidate country no earlier than 2023.
"After careful reflection, we decided that we should not rush the Georgian political elite to sit down at a common table in order to depoliticize the country and work on reforms," ​​said Michael Rupp, representative of the European Commission.
The agency will prepare a report on how the 12 priorities assigned to Georgia will be fulfilled only in 2023.
The opposition has already issued a joint statement and asks the president to convene an extraordinary parliamentary session.

🇬🇪❤️🕺🏅President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili awarded the Order of Merit to 18 members of the Bermukha Choreographic Ensemble of the Elders of Adjara.
The award was presented for personal contribution to the development and popularization of Georgian folklore and many years of fruitful creative activity. "Bermukha" is a Georgian folklore ensemble, whose members are centenarians, some of them are over 90 years old.
“Today, when they talk a lot about Europe, some people somehow oppose traditions and Europe - they say, if we enter Europe, we will lose these traditions. Vice versa! Our place will be strengthened precisely by the fact that we enter there with our traditions and our culture, and this is what has strengthened the country for centuries. Your heritage and traditions are very important, and it is also very important for young people who participate in today's holiday, you are a great example for them, and I am very grateful to you for this example,” the President of Georgia said at the award ceremony.

👮🏻‍♂🥦 The Tbilisi City Court established the fact of discrimination due to veganism in the case of a former prisoner and ordered the state to pay him compensation for moral damage.
The Ministry of Justice and Health, as well as the Special Penitentiary Service, were ordered to pay the man 5,000 lari (about $1,700).

💻🚀📱 Starlink is preparing to work in Georgia.
On June 29, Starlink Holdings Netherlands established a subsidiary, Starlink Georgia, and applied to the Liaison Commission for permission to operate. The regulator plans to consider the documentation submitted by the company on July 14.
To date, SpaceX has launched over 2,700 Starlink Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. In the context of Georgia, Starlink is especially important and interesting in mountainous areas and settlements where there is no broadband Internet access.

🇬🇪⚽️😭 "Dynamo" Batumi did not reach the next round of the Champions League, losing 1-2 with a full house to the Slovak "Slovan".
Having scored a goal in the 104th minute of extra time and received a standing ovation from the stadium, the Georgian club conceded on the 113th and after a corner kick in the 123rd minute. A very unfortunate defeat.
❗️The Batumi club is dropping into the Conference League bracket, so there will still be games in Adjara.

🙈Two news from Kutaisi.
📍A group of residents blocked the common gates of the Open House center for helping children with autism and Down syndrome. The protesters say they don't want to see "special children", hear them cry, and also demand that the center be moved to another location. For four years, the organization in Kutaisi has already changed several premises. There are about 300 children in this care.
📍At the wedding, the groom's grandmother recognized her patient in the bride, whom she helped restore her virginity at the local hospital. What she immediately told her grandson-fiance. How this story ended is unknown, but it is discussed very actively in social networks.

🦠 Expert of the Allergy and Immunization Center, immunologist Bidzina Kulumbegov announced the beginning of the seventh wave of coronavirus infection in Georgia.
“As you know, certain waves are characteristic of the coronavirus. If you look at the trend of other countries, we are about two months behind. This should not be an alarming, unexpected surprise. People think that the pandemic is over, but covid has its own plans,” – noted the doctor.
The head of the Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze, reports that "there may be a peak in early autumn, but the strain seems to be milder and has fewer complications and deaths."
ℹ️ According to the Ministry of Health of Georgia, more than five thousand cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in the country over the past week. The number of infected people is growing weekly by 2-2.5 times.

🇬🇪⚽️🇵🇱 Dynamo Batumi, who have been knocked out of the Champions League, will play their next match in Georgia on July 28th.
The champion-loser, the Polish team "Lech" from Poznan, will also become an opponent. After winning with a minimum score at home, it lost 1-5 in Baku to Qarabag.
🎫 Batumi game tickets will be on sale soon.

🇬🇪🚀💻 SpaceX Starlink, founded by Elon Musk, has passed the approval of the Communications Commission to provide satellite Internet services in Georgia.
Under the terms of the agreement, SpaceX will provide high-speed broadband Internet services via Starlink satellite systems.

🏦 Bank of Georgia does not issue plastic cards yet.
According to users who have applied to bank branches in recent days, they were refused due to the lack of the cards themselves. One of the visitors said that in return he was offered to make Solo products. There is no official information on the pages of BoG. This is probably a temporary situation and, as the operators reported, should be resolved in 10 days.
ℹ️ Credo Bank and TBC also open accounts in Georgia for foreign citizens. All applicants need to collect a certain set of documents and fill out questionnaires.

👨‍🍳🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇿 Ukrainians and citizens of Uzbekistan will be attracted to the restaurant business and service sector of Georgia.
Shota Burjanadze, president of the Association of Restaurateurs, said:
“Today, for any operator there is a personnel problem. There is a surge in demand from both local consumers and tourists as their numbers increase. Georgia is a country of gastro-tourism. But the quality of service often suffers. Unfortunately, if the situation is not corrected, we will have a very big mistake and the number of people interested in Georgia will decrease. The government needs to create training courses and popularize this activity.”
❗️According to him, at this stage, restaurants have begun to hire people from Ukraine, and in the future they are considering the possibility of bringing employees from Uzbekistan.

🇬🇪⚽️ Results of club European tournaments for Georgian clubs.
📍Dynamo Batumi has been eliminated from the Champions League and on 28.07. will host the Polish "Lech".
📍The only team from Georgia (pictured) that won in their pair was the capital's Saburtalo, which beat the Albanian team on penalties and now on July 21 in Gori will host the FCSB (ex-Steaua) from Romania.
📍 "Dinamo" Tbilisi lost in Estonia on penalties, and "Dila" from Gori lost 0-2 to a strong Finnish team.
😟 Disappointing results, but logical: the club tournament in Georgia is of a low level, all the bright players leave for the European championships.

☀️⛈National Environment Agency of Georgia reported an increase in air temperature to 39 degrees.
According to the forecast, over the next week in some areas, heat is expected to exceed 30 degrees and rain with thunderstorms:
"The air temperature during the day will be +26, +31 degrees. Hot weather without precipitation will continue in Eastern Georgia. The air temperature will warm up to +34, +39 degrees."
📍The weather will remain without precipitation in Tbilisi, the thermometers in the capital will rise to 36-39 degrees Celsius.
📍In Batumi next week it will be cloudy, 25 degrees and rainy.

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🏦💱 The National Bank of Georgia published statistics on money transfers to the country for June: Russia is still in first place.
According to the document, over the past month, the volume increased by 112% and amounted to $427 million.
Remittances by country and relation to June 2021:
🇷🇺Russia - 231 million (492%)
🇮🇹Italy — 35 million (12%)
🇺🇸USA - 27 million (11%)
🇬🇷Greece — 18 million (-7%)
🇰🇿Kazakhstan — 17 million (284%)
🇮🇱Israel - 16 million (8%)
🇩🇪Germany - 14 million (44%)
🇹🇷Turkey — 8 million (-7%)
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan - 7 million (519%)
⚪️🔴⚪️ Belarus — 5 million (756%)
📊In total, in the first half of the year, $1.78 billion was transferred to the country, which is 65% more than in the same period of 2021.
Leaders from January to June 2022:
🇷🇺Russia - $750 million
🇮🇹Italy - $208 million
🇺🇸USA - $147 million

🇬🇪🇦🇲🇦🇿 On July 16, Tbilisi will host talks between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
This is the first bilateral meeting between Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, before that they met only in multilateral formats. The Georgian capital acts as a neutral territory and provides all possible conditions for these negotiations.

👮🏻‍♂ Former deputy head of the State Security Service Soso Gogashvili was detained in Georgia at night.
Information and footage of detentions are being circulated on social networks. According to reports, a special operation was carried out at Soso Gogashvili's residence late at night, and now searches are being carried out there.
The day before, the ex-employee of the State Security Service said that he had facts and evidence of electoral fraud in the country.
ℹ️ Gogashvili left the ruling Georgian Dream party in 2020. Previously, in 2015-2018, he worked as deputy head of the state security service.

🇬🇪✊ The confrontation between Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and the ruling Georgian Dream party continues.
Direct accusations against each other, which began in April, and even an appeal to the Constitutional Court, were reflected today again at the state level.
📍Last night, at a special briefing, Madam President announced that she was convening an extraordinary session of Parliament:
“The biggest challenge for Georgia is the 12 conditions of the European Commission, so I think that the convening of an extraordinary session is necessary, as is the work of committees and commissions. Rest not justified. We must make every effort to pass the necessary laws in time.”
📍In response, representatives of the ruling Georgian Dream announced that they would not participate in the work of the extraordinary session, focusing only on the activities of the committees.
"If we needed a session, we would have turned to the president ourselves. Our party will not participate in this show," Anri Okhanashvili, head of their legal committee, replied to the head of state.

🇦🇿🚘⛔️🇬🇪Azerbaijan has no plans to open a land border with Georgia yet.
"We will keep land borders closed for as long as necessary. We do this to protect people's health," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said.
Earlier, Georgian Ambassador Zurab Pataradze said at a business forum in Baku that the issue of opening borders is being discussed in a positive way.
ℹ️ The Georgian-Azerbaijani land border was closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, only air traffic connects the countries.