🎙🚫Georgia cancels performances by singer Megi Gogitidze.
Reason: announcement of her concerts in Sochi and Moscow. The girl on her Instagram shared a video in which she announced that she would perform in several Russian cities. After that, hundreds of negative comments appeared under the post. Georgian users are perplexed how concerts can be held in Moscow when Russia started a war in Ukraine and continues to occupy two regions of Georgia.
❗️Today, the Batumi club Sector 26 announced the cancellation of the concert by Gogitidze, the performance was supposed to take place in three days, on July 24th. The administration of the institution emphasized that this decision was their initiative.
ℹ️ 33-year-old Megi Gogigitze is a native of Kobuleti. Popularity came to the performer in 2014, when she reached the semi-finals of the Ukrainian project "Voice".

🇬🇪⚽️ Georgian football clubs finished their European qualifiers with unexpected results.
📍 Dynamo Batumi disappointed, losing its match to the Polish Lech with a score of 0-5.
📍Without bright stars and a strong line-up, Saburtalo from the capital won 1-0 against the Romanian Steaua and retained the chances of reaching the next round.
ℹ️ Return games will be held in a week on 28.07.

👮🏻‍♂️ A citizen of Ukraine was detained at the Tbilisi airport for drug smuggling.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she tried to smuggle about 3 kg of cocaine into Georgia. The 27-year-old woman brought the drug from Brazil, the cache was arranged in a suitcase.
For this crime, she faces up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.

🇬🇪🤬The past week in Georgia was marked by massive political accusations.
I tried to figure it out myself and tell you who swore at whom and who defended whom.
The opposition blamed the authorities, and those blamed the opposition, everything is traditional here, let's go through the personalities.
📍Former EU Representative to Georgia Carl Harzel
Accuses: Chairman of the ruling party Kobakhidze
Protected by: opposition, 20 local NGOs, US ambassador, diplomats, EU representatives
📍US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan:
Accused: members of parliament who left the ruling party, a judge of the supreme court, members of the high council of justice
Protected by: opposition, US State Department, diplomats, NGOs
📍Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili:
Blame: everyone
Protected by: none other than ordinary citizens

🇬🇪🛰💻 "Starlink", which is a project of the international company "SpaceX" by Elon Musk, will begin operational activities in Georgia in 2023.
It is planned that Starlink will ensure the operation of the satellite broadband high-speed Internet system throughout the country. Several of my acquaintances in Tbilisi have already left applications for connecting them to the company's satellites.
Minister of Economy of Georgia Levan Davitashvili said that he had a working meeting with the Regional Director for Market Access of SpaceX Ben Mac Williams:
“The process of registration and authorization of the Starlink project in Georgia has been successfully completed, which allows SpaceX to start operating in the country. The introduction of fast Internet in Georgia will help improve public services, improve the level of education, provide Internet to schools that do not have Internet today, increase the level of security and create new opportunities, including for creating new products in terms of information technology.”

🚅 From July 25, the cost of high-speed trains in the direction of Tbilisi-Batumi will rise.
A number of objective reasons for the increase in tariffs are the increased costs for electricity, train maintenance and the cost of materials in recent years.
From July 25, Georgian Railways increases the price for:
📍 second class from 24 to 34 GEL
📍 first class from 60 to 74 GEL
📍 business class from 99 to 124 GEL
All existing benefits remain in effect. There is also a children's rate (50%) - for children under 10 years old.
ℹ️ You can buy tickets on the websites http://www.railway.ge/ru/, tkt.ge, biletebi.ge, matarebeli.ge and through the Georgian Railway Tickets application or at the railway station at the box office.

🏚In Khobi (Western Georgia), a new house is completely empty, and the apartments in it are not for sale.
The thing is that at the design and construction stage they forgot ... to make a sewer.
🙈The city hall, at the same time, accepted the object.

👮🏻‍♂️ An employee of the regional office of the public registry of the Kakheti region was sentenced to six years and three months in prison.
The investigation proved that the official carried out fraud with state land: the registrar helped five citizens fraudulently appropriate land plots of 635 hectares.

🇬🇪🏀 A little more than a month remains before the start of the European Basketball Championship, it will open on September 1 with a match in Tbilisi between the national teams of Spain and Bulgaria.
The calendar of the entire tournament is published on the FIBA ​​website.
Schedule of games of the Georgian national team in group "A":
01.09. Georgia - Belgium
03.09. Georgia - Spain
04.09. Turkey - Georgia
06.09. Georgia - Bulgaria
07.09. Georgia - Montenegro (instead of Russia)
ℹ️ All of these matches will be held at the new arena in Tbilisi with a capacity of 10,000 spectators.
🎫 Tickets will go on sale soon.

❗️🚌 A minibus on the Akhaltsikhe-Tbilisi route overturned near Borjomi.
According to preliminary information, there were 14 passengers inside. At the moment, 7 people have been delivered with injuries of varying severity to a local medical center.
📷 Photo Borjomi TV

🙈🌧 Batumi after yesterday's rain.
For the capital of Adjara, such floods, unfortunately, are already commonplace.
📹 Anano Bakuridze video

❗️🗣 There is a scandal in Georgia with the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Irakli Kobakhidze.
After he accused the former EU representative, MEPs and the president last week, he got into a skirmish with journalists yesterday. To the question of a representative of the opposition channel "Mtavari": "Isn't he the son of a KGB officer?" (as David Arakhamia, representative of the Servant of the People party in Ukraine, called him in an interview), Kobakhidze obviously could not restrain himself and issued a disgusting tirade against the journalist:
“Just as Arakhamia is not a man, so you are not a woman. Lose face, lose yourself, is politics worth it? It's a shame…. You lost your face for the "national movement" (opposition party). You are no longer a woman ... you have lost a woman's face ... when you speak, wipe your mouth ... you have a mouth like Saakashvili's, be like your leader in everything. You look like him even with your mouth."
❗️ President Salome Zurabishvili even had to make a special statement:
“I categorically condemn Kobakhidze's speech. Such speech does not suit the country, does not correspond to our culture, does not correspond to our traditions and does not correspond to our politeness.”

🇬🇪🇪🇺Georgian companies will get access to the EU public procurement market.
The decision was published on 22.07 in the Official Journal of the EU. Until now, Georgian companies had a legal restriction on participation in European tenders.
“This event is important because any business registered in Georgia will be ennoscriptd to participate in tenders for the purchase of goods announced by the authorities of 27 European countries,” the public procurement agency reports.
ℹ️ This market is estimated at 2 trillion Euro.

🦠 Coronavirus statistics for the past (from 19.07 to 25.07) week: the number of infected people has increased again.
10253 new cases (2441)
7508 recovered ( 2744)
5 died
🧪 Detectability (number of positive results out of the number of tests) 13.81% (2.97%)
The Centers for Disease Control clarified that the introduction of a mandatory mask regime in Georgia is not currently being considered. Most cases of the Omicron strain are easily tolerated, albeit with a high temperature.

🛫🇬🇪 Georgia air traffic news.
This week, three airlines have opened new or additional flights to the country:
🇱🇹🇪🇪 Lithuanian Getjet Airlines announced that from 15.08 it will start flights on the Vilnius-Batumi route, and then on the Batumi-Tallinn direction.
🇮🇱 Israeli "Arkia" opens a new destination in Georgia. From 07.08. flights on the Eilat-Batumi-Eilat route begin. Flights will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays.
🇹🇭 Thai-Malaysian "Thai Air Asia X" from October resumes flights to Thailand on the route Bangkok-Tbilisi-Bangkok.

🗣🇬🇪 Former Prime Minister of Georgia and the richest man in the country, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili broke his silence and published a large open letter.
“As a son of this country, naturally, I follow the events taking place in Georgia,” he begins his message. In it, he praised the ruling party for successfully avoiding “dragging Georgia into a war.” He called on the Georgian Dream not to inflict damage to relations with strategic partners, the EU and the US Mentioned that he met with the US Ambassador in March and they talked at length about the current situation. A lot of text is given to his dispute with Credit Suisse and writes that he wants to keep this problem personal without involving country: "since Georgia has practically overcome a difficult situation and is in the immediate threat of war, I prefer to leave the relationship between me and the Swiss bank my personal problem. The most important thing for me is that Georgia can finally get out of the most difficult situations and maintain peace, and I will decide my own question."
🖌 Full text in Georgian here.

❗️Ceramic plates from the supermarket "Domino" found a significant excess of lead levels.
The National Food Agency was notified of this through the RASFF Rapid Alert System of the Directorate of Health and Food Safety. This product has already been ordered to be withdrawn and disposed of. Buyers should refrain from using it.
ℹ️ Ambition Junior cymbals, diameter-19 cm, quantity-144 pcs, batch number-281799BB

🛫💣 An unknown person "mined" Minsk National Airport and a Belavia flight to Batumi yesterday.
According to the aviation security division, a message about a bomb was received by e-mail. It talked about the building of the airport terminal and the Belavia airline flight B2 738 Batumi - Minsk. Police officers at the air transport of Minsk airport did not find any dangerous objects and explosive devices.
ℹ️ Since the beginning of the year, there were 52 similar messages about mining.

🙈🇷🇺🚫 Tegeta, the largest auto parts and car repair network in Georgia, has installed unusual billboards in Adjara.
The innoscriptions on them say: "Russia is an occupant" and contains a call: "do not listen to the Russian music." A billboard adorns a road sign. It depicts a tank with a Russian flag with a microphone instead of a gun. This campaign is carried out under the auspices of caring for the culture of traffic.
“When 20% of the country is occupied, it is part of the culture that Russian songs would not be encountered while driving along the streets and roads. We are sure that we will be able to gather like-minded people and take care of the traffic culture together,” said the head of strategic communications at Tegeta Natika Berdzuli.
❗️A very strange decision of a Georgian company, hardly related to road safety. The neighboring billboard "We choose tolerance" is definitely more useful.