📹 Eyewitnesses filmed the moment of the explosion on the Batumi embankment.

It happened around 18:00 and the echo was heard in many parts of the city. According to the preliminary version, a mine detonated. Police officers and investigators are on the scene.

❗️And here is the very moment of the explosion on the Batumi embankment.

It happened about 18.00 due to the collision of a sea mine with stones. Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and sappers are working on the spot.
There is no information about the victims.

🐶🤗 A street dog took to the stage during Quest Pistols concert in Batumi.
And it became a full-fledged participant in the show.

🎼 Popular Georgian folk-rock band Mgzavrebi released their new album "Kamara".

The compositions, as the team notes, are dedicated to the childhood of the band's musicians.
The album is available at the links:
Apple Music
Spotify
YouTube
more ways to listen here
📹 Here is my last year's interview on youtube (in Russian) with the band's lead singer Gigi Dedalamazishvili. How and why the name of the group "Mgzavrebi" appeared, how the guys write songs and music, which Georgian performers he listens himself, what has changed in Georgia in recent years.

🛰 Starlink satellites observed over Georgia last night.

The global satellite system deployed by SpaceX has previously flown over the country. And now with a strong wind over the central regions, the visibility is very good and the satellites are clearly visible to the naked eye. This video is from subscribers from Tbilisi, but they wrote to me from Bolnisi and Kutaisi that there was a similar picture.
👉 In the comments they write that today and tomorrow it will also be possible to observe satellites.

🛳🚫 The movement of ships in the waters of Batumi is temporarily limited.

This is due to yesterday's mine explosion, which occurred on the embankment.
👮🏻‍♂️ The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Coast Guard are checking the territory with the help of drones and boats.

🇬🇪⚽️🎉 22, 22, 22 and 77 are not a code for a cryptographer, but numbers associated with the popular Georgian football player Khvichi Kvaratskhelia.

The midfielder, who turned 22 the day before, opened the scoring in the 22nd round match with the outsider of the Italian Serie A Cremonese on the 22nd minute, playing under the 77th number. In 23 official matches for Napoli, he scored 11 goals and made 14 assists. His club is confidently leading the strong Italian championship, and all the fans idolize the Georgian.
🏵 Congratulations to Khvicha and wish him health, football longevity and more successful games for the national team of Georgia!

🇬🇪❤️ Skyscrapers in Batumi also celebrated Valentine's Day.
The buildings were illuminated with scarlet hearts and congratulatory innoscriptions.

✊ Sairme Mineral Waters workers have gone on strike and are demanding better working conditions.

Among the demands of the protesters: higher wages, ensuring safe working conditions, improving insurance and medical care systems, and annual indexation of bonuses. According to the strike participants, there is no heating at the plant, the workshops are cold and working conditions are terrible, unsanitary conditions are rampant, and workers are intimidated by management.

🛵 Wolt and Glovo couriers strike in Tbilisi.

They demand better working conditions and higher wages. More than one hundred employees are participating.

🇮🇱🛫🇬🇪 Due to bad weather, the plane of the Israeli airline Israir Airlines landed in Kutaisi instead of Batumi.

All passengers will be transported to their destination by buses. Difficult meteorological situation persists in Western Georgia.

🇬🇪❤️🇹🇷 Midfielder of the Georgian national team Khvicha Kvaratskhelia put up his autographed T-shirt for a charity auction to help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

A rarity from Kvaratskhelia can be purchased at the link https://socratessahada.com/item/34 (at the moment its cost is already estimated at $3,000), there are also many other lots from sports stars. All the money will go to the fund for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

❗️🚘 The situation on the roads of Western Georgia.

This video is from the section of the Zestafoni - Samtredia road. Eyewitnesses report numerous accidents over the past day. A lot of snow fell in the region.

🔥 Unusual and cool concept: a bar-cryptocurrency exchange 1tab has opened in Tbilisi.
Last year cryptocurrency helped many people who moved to Georgia from another countries. There are exchange points of different quality here, but my friends have opened not just a cryptocurrency exchange with a cash machine and security system, but also a bar with a coffee shop and a coworking space in the center of Vake! 🥂💲

📌 5 reasons to visit 1tab:
✔️ Fast and secure. The guys work openly, they have one of the lowest commissions in the city, and all transactions are booked in just a few minutes via a Telegram bot @onetabco_bot.
✔️ Offices not only in Tbilisi, but also in Dubai, Moscow, Pkhuket, Kiev. You can bring cash there and get dollars here in Tbilisi.
✔️ Education. 1tab plans to constantly hold events that will help you understand the complex world of blockchain and learn about ways to earn money in web3.
✔️ Cool place. It is designed for comfortable work for remote employees. The guys brew filter coffee, pour craft beer, cider, local wines, and homemade infusions according to their own recipe.
✔️ Team. The bar is run by people from the industry — employees of Moscow bars ‘September’ and ‘Strelka’, and cryptocurrency professionals with their own NFT projects and experience consulting American startups.

⚡️ I asked for a gift — with the promo code TBILISI you will receive a 20% discount when selling cryptocurrency.

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🇪🇺⚡️🇬🇪 The European Parliament approved the resolution "On the situation with the ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili".

The document contains calling on the authorities to release the politician and allow him to be treated abroad. 577 deputies voted in favor, 33 against, 26 abstained.
❗️ The deputies agreed on an amendment on the need for sanctions against the ex-premier and the richest man in Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili.