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🇬🇪📈🏦 The World Bank has raised its 2022 economic growth forecast for the Georgia from the previously projected 5.5% to 8.8%, the highest in the Europe and Central Asia region.

As you may have guessed, about $2 billion from abroad made a significant contribution to it, with more than 50% of them sent from Russia to Georgia. International experts believe the considerable growth to be temporary and caused by increased migration from other countries.

Sebastian Molineus, the World Bank regional director for the South Caucasus assumes, that economical growth in Georgia would slow down in 2023 to an estimated 4.2 percent:
"When it comes to Georgia itself, we see a growth rate of 8.8 percent, which right now is the highest in the entire Europe and Central Asia region, largely based on an increase in domestic demand, increase in net money transfers, as well as a strong tourism receipts and remittances as well. With this said, we believe that both the government and the National Bank of Georgia need to remain vigilant. Certainly, there needs to be a tightening of monetary policy, should the inflation still tick upwards." Also he said that Georgian government should remain "fiscally prudent" and use "any additional revenues to pay off some of its fiscal burden and to act in a fiscally prudent manner".

🇬🇪➡️🚫🇺🇦 Georgia will not transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to Ukraine - this issue is "out of question".
That was stated by the chairman of the ruling "Georgian Dream" party Irakli Kobakhidze.
Earlier, the Ukrainian lawyer of the Georgian ex-president, Vadim Zavoritni said that the Ukrainian court instructed the country’s Justice Ministry to request to the Georgian authorities for the Saakashvili's temporarily transfer to Ukraine for questioning in the 2018 case, in which he is treated as a victim.
❗️Kobakhidze explained:
"The Georgian authorities have been sending a request to Ukraine for the extradition of Saakashvili for years, and for years this request was ignored. Sending this request under some formal pretence is a type of political game, and clearly, this game will be of little relevance to us."

🙈 The vice-speaker of the Georgian parliament got into an awkward situation: the politician praised the public transport of Tbilisi with a car selfie.

Archil Talakvadze's selfie on facebook provoked a storm of criticism and a wave of memes. He took photo sitting in the back seat of a car and signed it "Tbilisi has convenient public transport". After the criticism, he urgently added the hashtag #tbilisitaxi to the photo. Commentators suggested that Talakvadze should take a selfie on the bus or in the subway.
ℹ️ Over the past month, the capital has faced problems with overcrowded public transport, and photos of hundreds of people stuck in metro stations during rush hour circulated on social media.

🇬🇪ℹ️ Today's breaking news about Georgia

📍 The poverty rate in Georgia is at a historic low, according to Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili. It decreased from 21.3% to 17.5%
📍 Georgian authorities refused point-blank to discuss the possibility of Saakashvili's extradition to Ukraine
📍 The mother of the ex-president of Georgia, Giuli Alasania, assessed his condition as critical and said that he could not stand up and eat. The politician himself declared that his life was in danger
📍 A new automobile checkpoint "Ninotsminda" was opened on the Georgian-Armenian border, 11 new modern exits were organized there
📍 The US Embassy in Georgia congratulated the Russian "Memorial" on the Nobel Peace Prize
📍 The Ministry of Economy of Georgia supported the idea of ​​introducing tourist fees in some regions of the country
📍 On October 8 and 9, the “Bread Festival” will be held at the National Botanical Garden in Tbilisi
📍 The government will pay 100,000 lari to the children of a woman who died as a result of gender discrimination (in 2014 she was humiliated in the center of the hamlet, in front of all the villagers, due to which she committed suicide)
📍 Tbilisi City Council will allocate 500,000 lari ($170,000) to support street art
📍 The airport in Telavi is planned to be used for domestic flights, for example, to Batumi, Svaneti or Tusheti
📍 Synoptics warn of bad weather throughout Georgia

🏥💊 An interesting fact about Georgia: you can buy medicines in pharmacies ... by the piece.

You can buy not only one packet of Theraflu, but also one glycerin suppository, five No-spa tablets, or one sanitary pad. It is very convenient for antibiotics, especially, because usually the doctor prescribes a specific number of tablets for a certain number of days. And it's easy to buy the 3-6-9 pills you need instead of the whole big pack. This unusual manner comes from the 90s, when the country was in a severe economic crisis.
🚬 By the way, in small stores you can also easily buy cigarettes by the piece.
📲 And one more life hack, how to find specific medicines (or smth else) online. Do the search for sites in the .ge domain.
(You can simply replace "smecta" with anything you are looking for)
https://www.google.com/search?q=smecta+site%3A*.ge

💰🚫 The ruling party "Georgian Dream" decided to adopt a law on deoligarchization, as in Ukraine, the discussion will take place in the Parliament tomorrow.

To declare someone an oligarch, three of the four conditions must be met: a large fortune, influence on politics, control of the media, and a monopoly in any area of ​​the economy.
ℹ️ A person will be recognized as an oligarch if he has a fortune exceeding 1 million times the subsistence level. Such a person will be listed in a special register. According to the bill, oligarchs will be prohibited from donating to political projects and to the electoral accounts of candidates.
❗️The opposition opposed such a law, since sponsors of opposition parties fall under it, but Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream, who officially announced his retirement from politics, does not fall under it. They claim that the Ukrainian law does not consider the specifics of Georgia.

👮🏻‍♂️📉 Crime is declining in Georgia: during 8 months of 2022, the number of crimes decreased by 5.1% compared to the same period last year.

From January 1 to September 1 about 37.8 thousand crimes were recorded in the country, 56.4% of which were solved.

ℹ️ The most common crimes in Georgia:
📍stealing
📍drug crimes
📍family violence
📍threat
📍transport-related crimes

❗️ A man was spotted in Batumi trying to meet children, he starts conversations with them and invites them to his car.

The last time he was seen in Khelvachauri. Unfortunately, there's no photo of him. Talk to your children about the dangers of meeting strangers.
👮🏻‍♂️The Ministry of Internal Affairs has already been notified of a suspicious person, they are conducting search activities.

🍣 Asian restaurant Foodiyama.

According to owners, their main goal is to make everyone in Georgia learn everything about the best Asian dishes.

📍 The restaurant works only for delivery, thanks to which it has the opportunity to choose only the freshest and best ingredients.
📍 Geography of delivery in Tbilisi: Vake, Saburtalo, Vazha-Pshavela, Vera, Chugureti.

🔎 Look for Foodiyama at Wolt and Glovo .
🚙 15% discount for pickup (49a Chavchavadze ave.)

⚽️ The draw for the qualifying stage for the European Football Championship, "Group A":

🇪🇸 Spain
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇨🇾 Cyprus

ℹ️ Very strong and even group. We are waiting for world-class teams and Georgian coach Temuri Ketsbaia, who trains the Cyprus team.

🇬🇪📊 Georgian National Tourism Administration summed up the number of tourist visits in September: 636,235 foreign travelers visited the country last month.

📈 According to statistics, the number of visits increased by 392.4% compared to September 2021 and by 10.7% compared to the same period of pre-pandemic 2019. The leader of September is Russia: 163,200 people came to Georgia from it last month. Armenia ranks second with 83,603 visitors, and Turkey ranks third with 81,790 visitors.
🚧 Most of all foreign citizens arrived in Georgia through the Upper Lars checkpoint - 133,300, through the Sarpi checkpoint on the border with Turkey - 113,000, through Tbilisi airport - 107,100 visitors.
ℹ️ Deputy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili reports that 3.9 million foreign citizens have visited Georgia since January.

🇬🇪🚛➡️🇷🇺 The truck that exploded on the Crimean bridge arrived in Russia from Georgia.

This was announced by the chairman of the investigative committee of the Russian Federation Bastrykin at a meeting with Putin: "We have already established the route of the lorry which exploded. It drove through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia, and the Krasnodar Territory".
❗️From Bulgaria, the cargo arrived by sea to the Georgian port Poti, then went to Armenia, where the cargo was cleared according to the rules of the customs union - this is a typical route for cargo traveling to Russia. Then the truck again drove into Georgia, and from it - to the territory of the Russian Federation through the Upper Lars checkpoint. According to the Russian authorities, the masterminds, perpetrators and customers of the explosion were Ukrainian special services, but they were assisted by citizens of Russia and foreign countries.