👮🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🎓The Georgian Ministry of Defense has stated that military connoscription will not be mandatory for students.

This is what youth and student protests are doing in the country: 10 days ago, the planned and discussed bill was again withdrawn.
The defense department said that students will serve only on a voluntary basis.
📌They will be able to choose for themselves one of three options:
✔️ military training every year, in the summer, one full month a year for four years;
✔️ a two-year junior officer training program, in parallel with the main studies;
✔️ enrollment in a paid territorial reserve while serving 45 days annually for 4 years
💰 At the same time, young people can officially defer their military service by paying 2,000 lari ($720) per year until they turn 27 years old.

🇬🇪⚽️🇮🇹 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is the hero of the tour of the Italian football series "A" again.

The best player of the last month and the assistant of the league, laid down three defenders of the enemy team with feints at once and drove the ball into the net. His "Napoli" is leading by a wide margin in the championship, and Kvaratskhelia claims to be the "Opening of the football year in the world."
❤️ This week, his coach, Luciano Spalletti and the media also noted the civic position of the player who supported the protesters in his homeland, writing on his Instagram: "Georgia's future is in Europe!".

🇬🇪📹 The events of the March 7-9 protests in Georgia fit into a short documentary.

Posters and slogans, clashes with special forces, tear gas, dances, faces and emotions fit into a short seven-minute video of the Formula TV company, whose journalists were in the most active places of events.

🇬🇪🇨🇳 Such a surprise was made to the Georgian delegation in China during the recording of a program about Georgia on one of the TV stations.

A beautiful Georgian song performed by a Chinese children's choir.
📹 Video shared by Ambassador Archil Kalandia.

🇬🇪🛫🇹🇷 From June 2023, the German-Turkish airline Sun Express will start flying from Tbilisi to Turkey and back.

At the first stage, their planes will fly 5 times a week. So far, three directions have been announced: from 02.06. Izmir, from 05.06. Ankara and, which is especially pleasant, from 28.06 Antalya. Tickets for the summer are 90-150 euros, in the fall there are cheaper options. In addition to the fact that these are convenient direct flights, the price includes 20 kg of luggage.
🎫 Tickets can already be purchased on their sunny website: https://www.sunexpress.com/en/

🌾❌ All grain mills in Georgia have suspended their work due to an increase in the export duty on wheat from Russia.

This was stated by the director of the Association of Grain and Flour Producers Levan Silagava.
"The situation of the year before last is repeating. The reason is again in the export duty on wheat from Russia. This creates the conditions for an aggressive import of flour," he said. In 2023, Russia raised prices for wheat exports + according to the current Georgian legislation, the tax on flour imports is zero, and the tax on wheat imports is floating and today is $120 per ton. Georgia consumes up to 650 thousand tons of wheat per year. The country provides itself with only 15% of wheat. The rest is imports, more than 91.4% of which comes from Russia.
📈 In contrast to wheat imports, flour purchases have increased significantly in recent months. Compared to last year, the volume of imports increased by 704.8%, and by value - by 922.5%, which represents a record growth rate of flour imports. According to statistics, Russia is also the main importer of flour here, as is the case with wheat. This market accounts for almost 99% of all imports.

🏦➡️🇬🇪 The National Bank of Georgia has published statistics on money transfers for February.

Over the past month, $372 million was transferred to the country (-$73 million compared to January).
ℹ️ Top countries and comparison with the same period in 2022:
🇬🇧 Russia $187M (+754%)
🇮🇹 Italy $39M (+18%)
🇺🇸 US $30M (+44%)
🇬🇷 Greece $17M (+12%)
🇮🇱 Israel $16M (+16%)
🇩🇪 Germany $15M (+29%)
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan $13M (-6%)
🇹🇷 Turkey $9M (+19%)
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan $6M (+83%)
ℹ️ Russia maintains leadership throughout the year. Countries in second to fifth place show the number of migrants living and working there who send funds home.

🇬🇪🥟 Georgian khinkali took 14th place in the rating of dumplings on the popular site TasteAtlas.

The authors of the article say that khinkali are stuffed with meat and spices, and then twisted into a knot at the top. Regional differences affect the filling and each region of Georgia can have its own distinctive variety. For example, in mountainous areas, the most traditional filling is lamb; the most common variety throughout Georgia is a mixture of pork and beef, and there are vegetarian versions made with traditional Imeretian cheese or mushrooms, which are also quite popular.
🧂The best seasoning for khinkali is black pepper.
🍴❌ Journalists did not write that it is strictly forbidden to eat khinkali with a knife and fork. They need to be carefully bitten while drinking the broth, but you already know this, of course)))
📌 Where it is recommended to try khinkali in Georgia: Tbilisi (Khinklis Sakhli, Amo Rame, Pasanauri, Sofia Melnikova's Fantastic Douqan, Shemomechama, Funicular complex, Tsiskvili, Zodiaqo), Batumi (Kiziki, HB), Kutaisi (El Depo, Hacker-Pschorr).