🇬🇪⚽️🥇 Dinamo Tbilisi became the Georgian Football Champion in 2022.

In the most difficult struggle, they won back the backlog from DInamo Batumi after the first half of the championship and took the gold. For the last three years, Dinamo from the capital and Adjara have been taking championships in rotation: 2020 - Tbilisi, 2021 - Batumi, 2022 Tbilisi. Should we expect revenge from the seaside team next season?
It is noteworthy that Lokomotiv Tbilisi dropped out of the top league, scoring only 8 points in 36 matches with a goal difference of 28:101. This is surprising, given that they recently, in European competitions, beat the strong Russian Dinamo.

👨🏻‍🔧 On December 10, from 14:00 to 18:00, Carreer Fest will be held at the Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi.

Job search event in Georgia. About 60 companies with active vacancies will be presented at the festival. Judging by the partners of the project, there will certainly be an IT segment from foreign companies and interesting local organizations. Anyone can enter, but first you must register.
📌 Registration link here.

👚👕 Clothes for well-known brands will be sewn in Georgia, among them are: H&M, Next, Marks&Spencer, Moncler and S’Oliver.

A new garment factory with an investment of just over 500 thousand dollars has begun work in Rustavi. According to the founder of Darmatex, Elizbar Lominadze, 90% of all manufactured products will be oriented to the export market. At the same time, there will be an innoscription on the tags: “Made in Georgia”. “In addition, we are going to cooperate with leading Georgian clothing designers,” the entrepreneurs noted.
📈 In 2022, light industry products entered the TOP-20 main commodity groups of Georgian exports. The export value for 8 months of 2022 was already $65 million.
ℹ️ The Georgian company "Ajara Textile" fulfills orders for the production of clothing for such major world brands as "Nike", "Puma", "Adidas", "New Balance" and "Umbro". In 2021, its total revenues increased by 88%, amounting to more than $100 million. They sew uniforms for Liverpool, Chelsea, Borussia and the Croatian national team.

🇬🇪💔🇺🇦 Georgian officials expressed their condolences to the families and friends of the Georgian volunteers killed in Ukraine.

Following President Zurabishvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili made statement: “Already 33 people, our fellow citizens died in Ukraine in this war, which is also a tragedy for us. Once again, my condolences to their families,” while adding that the government is doing everything possible to maintain peace in the country, unlike the opposition, which is to blame for being drawn into the conflict and wanting war.
Speaker of the Parliament Papuashvili joined the condolences: “Over the past few days, as a result of Russia's aggressive war, six Georgians have died. 33 Georgians have already died in this war, and this, of course, is a great loss for our country. I want to express my condolences to the families of the victims, their relatives and Georgia as a whole,” and Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze: “The death of every Georgian, wherever it happens, is very tragic. This is very difficult for our country. I want to wish peace to Georgia, to wish peace to Ukraine and Ukrainians.”

🙈🚛 An 18th-century arch collapsed in Sighnaghi after an accident.

A truck crashed into the wall, which is a monument of cultural heritage. The arch and the wall are part of the Sighnaghi fortress, which overlooks the Alazani valley. The total length of the structures is 4.5 km.
❗️The trailer driver was fined 250 lari ($90), and the municipality promised to restore the monument in the near future.

🚌💳 In Batumi public transport, payment terminals are installed for paying with bank cards.

Previously, only Bank of Georgia supported this feature. The entire process of preparation and debugging will be completed within a week, and the system will fully work from January 2023. With the new type of devices, passengers will be able to pay for the ride using any contactless Visa and Mastercard plastic cards.

🚌🛠 Georgian bus stations will be reformed.

“They do not meet the interests neither the citizens of the country nor tourists. Today, bus parks are completely unregulated. They do not meet minimum quality, sanitation, safety, or passenger care standards, including service quality, ticket sales, schedule reliability, and more. All these details will be carefully spelled out,” said Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili.
ℹ️ According to him, the bill regulating this direction will be adopted by the Parliament in 2023.

📈 More than 50% of Georgia's GDP comes from service sector.

The influx of a large number of financially prosperous emigrants provided the service sector with an impressive increase in sales: it amounted to +15%. At the same time, in neighboring Armenia the growth amounted to +27%.

🧪 The Ministry of Health of Georgia calls on citizens to take a free HIV test.

At the moment, 9714 HIV-infected people are registered in the country, 7257 of which are men and 2457 are women. Age of most patients: 30-40 years. According to the Center for Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Clinical Immunology, 61.4% - 5968 people are being treated.
ℹ️ In 2022, 552 new cases were detected.
❗️ Where you can get tested: Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center - 16 Alexander Kazbegi Ave, Tbilisi

🇬🇪↔️🇺🇦 Recriminations between Georgian and Ukrainian officials continue despite many common ground.

📍During the briefing, Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Georgia Andriy Kasyanov said: “Despite numerous requests, we have not received a response from the Georgian government regarding the supply of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and other equipment to Ukraine. We still believe that our appeal for military assistance to fraternal Georgia at a time when it was about survival, life and death was completely justified, fair and necessary, since at one time the government of Ukraine helped in the evacuation of Georgian refugees in the mountains Svaneti, provided Georgia with the strongest humanitarian assistance in 1993, as well as military-technical and political assistance in 2008".
📍The executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party Mamuka Mdinaradze has already commented on the words of the representative of Kyiv in Tbilisi:
“For the first time I hear about generators… For the first time I hear this topic and I will find out. When the representative of Ukraine says that Georgia should supply weapons and military equipment to Kyiv, it is obvious that they objectively have no special expectations regarding the supply of special weapons or military equipment from Georgia. The message that this person voiced is that Georgia should be involved in an armed conflict. Our country provides Ukraine with unconditional political and humanitarian assistance beyond the scope and beyond its capabilities.”
❗️Earlier, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, speaking with condolences to the families of the Georgian soldiers who died in Ukraine, said: “We fought three times, my friends, we fought three times since we gained independence, this is enough. We want to unite the country peacefully, not by war, and this is a sound national policy.”
ℹ️ Georgia has long been ranked first in the number of humanitarian aid to Ukraine sent through the mail.

🇬🇪❤️🇺🇦 The social networks of Georgia host the campaign “Share the light \ გაუზიარე სინათლე” to raise funds for generators in Ukraine.

For 8 days, 1176 citizens of Georgia have already transferred money for the action, and 9 people personally provided generators. Now the total amount of collected funds will be enough for 200 generators.
The initiators of the campaign say - “There was an idea to unite the people and buy generators that will arrive in Kyiv by December 24th. The fund-raising will continue until December 12th. At this point, we need to collect resources and buy generators. Then transfer them to Kyiv, where a local NGO will deliver them to the 100 most affected cities and regions.”
📍 Project Page
📌 Account numbers:
GE80BG0000000539687194 - Bank of Georgia
GE07TB7163836070100002 - TBC Bank