🇬🇪➡️🇺🇦 Ukraine officially offered to transfer Mikhail Saakashvili to them for treatment.

Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine, said that he was ready to personally come to Georgia and carry out all the necessary signing of papers for the extradition of the politician.
❗️Earlier, representatives of the ruling Georgian Dream and the Ministry of Justice ruled out such a possibility.
ℹ️ Tomorrow there will be another court hearing on the possible release of the ex-president due to health reasons. The doctors ruled out the politician's participation in the meeting. He is weak and has passed out several times over the past week.

🛑 In the coming days, I recommend traveling by personal transport from Tbilisi to Batumi or Kutaisi only on winter tires.

In the evening and at night it was snowing on the Rikotsky pass, eyewitnesses report that there are snowdrifts up to a meter high on the sides of the road, and sleet on the road.
❗️ Be careful!

😥 Tragic incident at Kutaisi airport.

After the Wizz Air plane took off for Paris, a 60-year-old man became ill on board. The crew provided first aid and it was immediately decided to return to Kutaisi. However, resuscitation did not help and the man died.
The airline expressed condolences for the death and apologized to passengers due to the canceled flights, expressing readiness to make amends:
"Our colleagues did everything possible to save the passenger's life until medical professionals intervened, but, unfortunately, this attempt was not successful."
ℹ️ Passengers are offered alternative Wizz Air flights, a full refund or a refund of 120% deposit to the airline's account.

🇬🇪❤️ The New York Times published in its official accounts .... the recipe for Adjarian khachapuri.

At the moment, this traditional Georgian dish has over a million views and hundreds of enthusiastic comments.
ℹ️ Khachapuri is a part of the intangible cultural heritage of Georgia. “Khatcho” in Georgian means cottage cheese, and “puri” means bread. It is difficult to call it a Georgian cheesecake, after all, khachapuri is a tortilla with cheese. In each region of Georgia, khachapuri is prepared in a special way, and each family has its own traditions and tastes.
Adjarian Khachapuri is a gastronomic experience for one person, it is inconvenient to share this dish with anyone. Inside - a mixture of Imereti cheese and suluguni. Before serving, you should add raw egg and a butter. It is customary to eat this khachapuri with your hands, breaking off the bread edge and dipping it into the filling. Tap the dough with your finger, the sound should be deaf - it means that the acharuli is well baked. I prefer to eat Adjarian khachapuri in Batumi and its surroundings, it is more authentic there, although it is tasty in many other places in Georgia.

🇬🇪 January 9 is Monday and a full working day in Georgia.

Civil servants, who had a rest from January 3 to 6, are coming out of the holidays, ministries, special services and agencies are opening.
👶 Until 16.01. there are holidays in schools and public kindergartens.

🌨 Weather in Georgia this week (09.01 - 15.01).

In almost all regions, a significant decrease in air temperature is expected, it will be a little warmer only near the sea.
📍 In Tbilisi until the weekend, minus temperature (-2°) and snow and rain. On Saturday and Sunday it will warm up to +4°C.
📍 Rains are expected in Batumi today (in fact, there are none yet), but for the rest of the week and until 18.01, the comfortable temperature is +12° +14° degrees and partly cloudy with the sun.
🏔 At the ski resorts:
✔️ Gudauri from -7° to -16°, without snow
✔️ Mestia from -1° to -10°, without snow
✔️ Bakuriani from -3° to -10°, without snow, but it fell the other day, so the mountain is opened
✔️ Goderzi from -1° to -10°, without snow (but a meter fell there last week), cable cars and ski slopes are open

🇬🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine asked Georgia to return the Buk complexes handed over to it in 2008, but the Georgian authorities refused to do so.

Andrey Kasyanov, Charge d'Affaires of Ukraine in Georgia, spoke about this. The diplomat's article also notes that Kyiv requested Javelin anti-tank systems transferred from the United States from Tbilisi. According to Kasyanov, Washington was ready to replace them with newer ones. Nevertheless, Georgia categorically refused these proposals.
❗️“Despite the fact that the Georgian government has categorically refused providing military assistance, Ukraine opposes the use of this issue in internal political disputes and rejects any accusations of trying to drag Georgia into a war with the Russian Federation,” Andrey Kasyanov said.
ℹ️ At the same time, Georgia has long been the leader in the amount of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and last week handed over $500,000 worth of generators

🙈🌨 Briefly about the weather in Tbilisi today and the next three days.

Snowy, cold and windy.
📹 thanks for the video dalinger4life

💡🔌🚫 There are problems with electricity in Svaneti - the old sore point is creating problems again.

According to the mayor of Mestia, Kakha Zhorzholiani, electricity consumption in the municipality is at its peak now and one of the main reasons for this is... mining. According to him, due to the increase in consumption, power lines and equipment are damaged, which leads to emergency shutdowns. Over the past days, the electricity in the area has already been turned off 10 times, on one of the days there were no electricity for more than 12 hours.
“Unfortunately miners are not regulated by law and that is why we are in this situation. The solution is to reduce electricity consumption, turn off what is not used for homes,” the mayor asked residents.
ℹ️ Individuals in Mestia currently receive electricity for free, but this is actively used by miners. The Ministry of Economy and Energo-Pro Georgia started work on a tariff setting system in this region, but the issue has not been resolved yet.
☦️ On December 30, 2021, the Svans gathered at the Church of St. George in Mestia and promised to turn off mining farms, but electricity consumption in the region has only increased since then.
📈 According to Energy-Pro Georgia, the increase in electricity consumption in Mestia in 2021-2022 amounted to more than 20 million kWh. In 2021, it was 101.5 million kWh, and in 2022, consumption reached 121.7 million kWh.

🇬🇪❤️ A beautiful video report about the Alilo procession that took place in Tbilisi.

The faces and emotions of the participants during the passage through Tbilisi are shown very vividly and interestingly. It’s not even about the action itself, but a video about the people who took part in it.
📹 Thanks for the story to Evgeny Abornev (instagram)