🦠 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.

What is DREAMLAND OASIS? 🤓
⏩⏩🌐 www.dreamland.ge
⠀
✨ 50 existing infrastructure facilities (water park, swimming pools, restaurants, playgrounds, sports fields and much more)
⠀
🏖 First line with a well-equipped, secured beach
⠀
🌳 Closed secured territory of 10 hectares, where traffic is prohibited
⠀
🌴 Ecologically clean environment: eucalyptus forest next to the complex, Botanical Garden 1.5 km, Mtirala National Natural Park 20 minutes from the complex
⠀
✨ The only operating family-type residential complex on the Black Sea coastline
⠀
👩🏻‍💼 Service and security 24 hours
⠀
🇬🇪 Property in Dreamland Oasis is an opportunity to obtain a residence permit in Georgia for yourself and your loved ones
⠀
Sales of Block 13 in DREAMLAND OASIS CHAKVI have started
⠀
✅ 150 premium class apartments in a TURNKEY condition: renovated, furnished, with appliances and accessories, if desired, it is possible to install a heated floor
✅ Apartment types:
1 BEDROOM from 62m2
STUDIO 53m2
2 BEDROOM m ECONOMY 70m2
It is also possible to combine several apartments into 1
✅ Interest-free internal installment until March 2025
⠀
💵 Prices in block 13 starts from $2000/m2
⠀
📲 Sales office:
@lenuuute
+995 557 22 33 84

🏦💱 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.

🪂 The second tragedy in a year during paragliding flights in Gudauri.
The paraglider fell into a ravine. The passenger died, the pilot is in the hospital with a fracture of the cervical vertebrae.
In May, a paraglider pilot died in the same place, and a tourist flying with him was seriously injured.

🚘⛔️ Transport movement restriction due to works on the prevention of landslides and landslides is introduced in Guria, on the Ozurgeti-Gomismta road.
From July 16 to October 31, 12-32 km roads will be closed for all types of transport. Traffic on this section of this period will be allowed only on weekends, from 3:00 p.m. Saturday to 9:00 a.m. Monday. Information is provided by the Department of Motorways.
❤️ For those who have not yet been to Gomismta, a mountain village located above the clouds, you must include it in your list of visits to Georgia.
Watch the video, it's worth it!

🇬🇪🇺🇦 Citizens of Ukraine in Georgia from July 15, 2022 will receive monetary compensation of 300 GEL (about $ 100) per family 45 GEL per month per person.
Government Decree No. 1254 of July 13 has already been signed. In addition, the international organizations World Vision and UNHCR are considering an aid package of 235 GEL per person per month. In order for citizens of Ukraine to receive this financial assistance, you need to call the Ministry of Health of Georgia at 1505. They will tell you the nearest agency in the regions where you can come to receive this assistance. The program operates throughout the country.
❗️ In this regard, the Tbilisi City Hall announces the termination of the program for the resettlement of Ukrainian citizens from July 31 at the budget expense. According to them, since the beginning of the war, 2,300 refugees have been assisted at the expense of the budget in the capital, who live free of charge in 40 hotels in the city and are provided with three meals a day. 11 million lari (about $3.5 million) were spent on these needs.

👮🏻‍♂️A lawyer for the former deputy head of the State Security Service, Iosif Gogashvili, who was detained in Tbilisi, said that before his arrest, he managed to hand over documents about the falsification of elections in Georgia.
“He had a specific, consolidated document and schemes of what exactly and how was carried out during the elections. The documents are already outside the country and can be made public in the near future,” the defense representative said. He claims that the detention of the former official is connected precisely with this issue. Gogashvili was arrested after posting on social media that he had compromising material on the 2021 municipal elections.
❗️The defense and the family of the detainee state that during the arrest and search, weapons were planted on him, and he himself was beaten. The fact of the presence of external bodily injuries was confirmed by the representative of the Public Defender after meeting with the detainee.
ℹ️ Soso Gogashvili is allegedly charged under the article "Infringement on information reflecting personal life or personal data." There may also be a charge of illegal possession of a weapon.

🏳️‍🌈🔥A man who set himself on fire at a homophobic rally in the center of Tbilisi on July 2 has died.
During an anti-LGBT rally, he shouted: "I don't want to live in a country of sinners", doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. Only the dedication of the surrounding men allowed him to be thrown into the fountain. He received medical attention on the spot, but he died two weeks later. The area of ​​burns on his body exceeded 70%.

🇬🇪❓📑🌏 How to make a notarized power of attorney for another state in Georgia.
A lot of visitors have faced the same issue. I'll tell you on my own example, I checked out of the apartment and sold it in Moscow by proxy. I also collected the experience of other acquaintances who made documents in Georgia. These algorithms apply to citizens of many countries around the world, but may differ slightly.
📌 Option 1.
Contact the authority in your country where your relatives will present powers of attorney. Government agencies or a notary who will check them. Clarify in advance what kind of paper they accept from Georgia and how best to make them. So you will avoid misunderstandings and mistakes in advance. You make documents in Georgia according to their model and translate them into the original language (there are multilingual notaries and their translators in Tbilisi and Batumi).
Total: you have a power of attorney in Georgian and a certified translation into your language you can apply with it to the authorities of your country.
📌 Option 2.
A variant of a power of attorney is being made, it is also desirable to clarify its type in the instance where you will submit it and is certified at your embassy. The consul or his representative certifies the document and it has legal force in your country.
❗️ Both options are working and can be done in different ways. If you have something to add or want to share your experience, please write in the comments.

☀️🔥 Georgian Emergency Management Service warns of high temperatures and fire risks.
In the near future, heat without precipitation will continue in most parts of the country, and therefore the risk of forest and field fires will increase.
"We urge you to exercise civic responsibility, do not make fires in agricultural fields, near forests or fields, and do not leave smoldering coals unattended," the ministry said in a statement.
❗️Yesterday, on the territory of the Tbilisi Sea, grass caught fire over a large area (in the video), eyewitnesses also report fires in Kakheti, where farmers burn unnecessary waste.

🇬🇪👅 The Georgian language in pictures is a meme shared by the US Embassy in Tbilisi.
In the picture, prefixes showing directions of movement: ადი (adi) go up, ჩადი (chadi) go down. The Facebook post has already gained 7,500 likes and almost a thousand reposts.
❓And how are your progress in learning the Georgian language? For me, for 3.5 years of living in the country, things have progressed moderately, I can explain myself in the store, in the market, in transport and household items, but it is still difficult to understand and speak.
There are several reasons for those who cannot learn:
✔️ the circle of communication often remains English-speaking
✔️ the language actually has no analogues, it is the only one in its family
✔️ out of courtesy and convenience, they will switch to English with you, because it will be very difficult for you to understand Georgian
✔️ rarely used