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👮🏻‍♂🇬🇪 News from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
In January-February of this year, the number of crimes, compared to last year, decreased by 8% - 43.7% out of 8,700 were solved.
📍 the accountant of the Gori City Hall transferred budget funds to an online casino account, the amount of damage amounted to about 47 thousand dollars
📍 two people were detained for connection with the thieves' world
📍 a suspect was detained in the transfer of the state land plot in the Abastumani area, according to forged documents, to private ownership
📍the sentence for premeditated murder rises from 7 to 10 years in prison
📍the evidence base is changing, now records from mobile phones and gadgets can be submitted to the court as evidence (surprisingly, this was previously considered in a special order!)
📍 the body of a teenager who disappeared 18 years ago
has been found in Gori
📍 46 suspicious call centers have been identified in Georgia, a working group of representatives of several departments has been established on their activities.

🏔🎿 The situation in the ski resorts of Georgia.
While in Tbilisi and Batumi in the afternoon the temperature has already warmed up to +28 degrees, snow is still lying in the mountains and even pouring abundantly.
What is the current situation with cable cars and ski resorts:
📍 Gudauri: the season has been extended until 23.04., so you have a chance to ride
📍 Svaneti and Bakuriani: cable cars are off, the season is closed
📍 Goderzi: there is no information, but most likely too, everything is closed

🇺🇦🇬🇪 A delegation of eight deputies, headed by the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili, will go to Ukraine.
After long negotiations, it will include both representatives of the ruling party and the opposition. The delegation is expected to leave for Ukraine tomorrow.

🇬🇪🇺🇦 The body of the Georgian volunteer David Menabdishvili, who died in Ukraine, was met by the residents of Rustavi kneeling with flags and candles.
The memorial service and funeral will be held in the Church of the Assumption of Mary (Rustavi Sioni).
📹 1tv video

🇬🇪💵 The Ministry of Finance of Georgia has published statistics on money transfers to the country for March.
For the whole month, $ 191 million was transferred to the country, which is 2.6% more than in the same period of 2021.
Money transfers by country:
🇮🇹Italy — 36 million (+18%)
🇷🇺Russia — 27 million (-16%)
🇺🇸USA — 26 million (+6%)
🇬🇷Greece — 19 million (-8%)
🇮🇱Israel — 17 million (+9%)
🇩🇪Germany — 11 million (+35%)
🇹🇷Turkey — 8 million (-12%)
🇰🇿Kazakhstan — 8 million (+217%)
🇦🇿Azerbaijan — 5 million (-35%)

🏧 Georgia became one of the world leaders in the installation of cryptomats in March - 8 new devices appeared here at once in a month.
There are already 45 devices at the service of local holders of bitcoin and other coins — in Tbilisi (39), Rustavi (3), Batumi (2) and Kutaisi (1).

🇺🇦 The parliamentary delegation headed by the Chairman of the legislative body of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili went to Ukraine.
The delegation, consisting of eight deputies, includes Vice-speakers of the Parliament of Georgia Sergeenko, Talakvadze and Ioseliani, a member of "Lelo" Natsvlivili, a member of "Girchi" Megrelishvili, a member of the "Republican Party" Samnidze and a member of the party "For Georgia" Khojevanishvili.
According to them, they are going to Ukraine to express solidarity to Ukrainian friends on behalf of the Georgian people.
❗️The group does not include representatives of the "National Movement" (Mikhail Saakashvili's party). The State Security Service of Georgia has launched an investigation into information about possible provocations by this party in Ukraine. The investigation was initiated under article 325, which implies the preparation of an attack on a state political figure.

📈 Georgia is expecting a rise in the price of food.
The duty on wheat exports from Russia to Georgia will increase by about 10% (from $101.4 to $110.7 per ton).
The increase will occur from 20.04. This information is provided by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Let me remind you that wheat exports from Russia to Georgia account for 94% of the local market.
❗️The duty on the export of sunflower oil from Russia from May 1 will increase by 20% and amount to $372.2 per ton against $313/ton in April. In 2021, 87.7% of sunflower oil supplies to Georgia were exported from Russia.

👮🏻‍♂️Criminal news of Georgia.
📍 in Rustavi, fire service and police officers who arrived at the fire revealed that the reason was the manufacture of kebabs on the roof
📍 two boys of 9 and 11 years old stole a car parked near a store with ignition keys, but lost control and collided with other cars, both with minor injuries are in the hospital
📍 Interior Ministry officers seized three people in Kakheti have illegal firearms
📍 a man jumped out of a police station in the city of Chiatura
📍 customs officers found undeclared mobile phones worth 27 thousand lari (about $ 9,000) at the Tbilisi airport
📍 several cases of illegal cutting of boxwood have been identified (cutting boxwood is a punishable act, a fine of 500-1000 lari)
📍 those accused of the high-profile murder of businessman Niki Kvaratskhelia (he was shot in the center of Tbilisi) were sentenced to 16 and 17 years in prison
📍11 people were found guilty of creating a network of illegal call centers that illegally used personal data and engaged in the theft of large sums
📍the accused of robbery in the amount of 300 lari from the Nikora store, when he threatened the seller with a knife, sentenced to 11.5 years in prison
📍the prosecutor's office has charged the chief accountant of the Gori Tourism Development Agency, who, according to the investigation, withdrew $ 47 thousand to her online casino accounts

🇷🇺🚫💳🇬🇪 UnionPay payment system cards issued in Russia have stopped working in Georgia.
You cannot withdraw money from the cards at BOG, TBC, Liberty, Cartu Bank, Terabank, Basis Bank and Bank of Georgia ATMs (the screen says "operation canceled") or pay for purchases in stores.

🇺🇦🇬🇪🇷🇺 The Ukrainian authorities advise their citizens who are in Russia to leave for Georgia.
«I advise Ukrainians who were forcibly resettled on the territory of the Russian Federation to move to neighboring countries, for example, to Georgia," said Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

🇺🇦 According to the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili, what is happening in Ukraine today is not alien to the citizens of Georgia, because they have already experienced this.
The politician made such a statement after a meeting of the Georgian parliamentary delegation with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and a visit to the cities of Bucha and Irpen.
«Looking at this, we Georgians today remember our own cities from the time of the wars with Russia. Occupied Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region. We've experienced it too. Our cities and hopes were also bombed and destroyed. So we Georgians understand your pain very well. Dear Ukrainians, it is with the greatest pain that we see your heroic resistance, courage and unconquered hearts. Soon peace will reign in your beautiful country, because the truth is yours. Glory to Ukraine, peace to Ukraine!"

🇬🇪 April 22-25 is a weekend in Georgia.
Let me remind you that next week is shortened because of the Easter holidays, which are official holidays in the country. State institutions, houses of justice and banks will not work for four days.
22.04 — Good Friday
23.04 — Great Saturday
24.04 — Easter
25.04 — Easter Monday
ℹ️ This is the first post-covid Easter weekend when coronavirus restrictions will not be introduced in Georgia. Let me remind you that they were the toughest in 2020, when all major cities were closed, the movement of public and private transport was prohibited, people were not allowed to visit cemeteries and there were cases when Easter gifts were sent there using drones.

🦠18.04. Coronavirus statistics in Georgia.
The Prime Minister and the head of the Center for Disease Control are preparing to announce the end of the pandemic in the country.
Conducted tests - 4970.
The incidence rate is 1.49%
+74 infected (total 1986 active cases)
+357 recovered
+1 died
+26 vaccinated
❗️There are only two restrictions in the country:
- mandatory wearing of a mask in transport and indoors
- a vaccine or a test for visiting for foreign citizens

🚬 Importers of tobacco products in Georgia will be temporarily allowed not to put warnings about the dangers of smoking on packages.
The relaxation of the Law "On Tobacco Control" will be in effect until September 1, 2022.
According to the government, it has become impossible to label products because of the war. The fact is that a significant part of tobacco products previously came to Georgia from Ukraine. Over the past few weeks, there has been a shortage of cigarettes of a number of popular brands on the Georgian market. We are mainly talking about the goods of the Philip Morris International corporation.

🕹 In Georgia, people complain about problems with access to the Playstation Store.
Players, while in the country, cannot enter the online store. They only have access to previously downloaded and paid for games and applications. Sony support is not providing any help at the moment. This happened after the company suspended operations in Russia. Apparently, the problem arose due to the fact that the Russian Federation was specified as the region in the profile settings. Representatives of Georgia often choose it, since it is not in the list of regions available to Sony and the prices there are lower. Perhaps now the company will add it, but so far the situation has reached an impasse. The system also does not work in Kazakhstan, Moldova and Armenia.

🗳 A referendum on the entry of the self-proclaimed "republic" of South Ossetia into Russia may take place in May.
«In support of the referendum on the entry of (occupied so-called South Ossetia - approx. author) more than three thousand signatures have already been collected and the collection continues. It will definitely take place," the de facto president of the "republic" Anatoly Bibilov said during a live broadcast on his Instagram page. He recalled that South Ossetia, if the issue is resolved positively, will become part of the Russian Federation only as a separate entity, "The Republic of South Ossetia - the State of Alania."
🇷🇺 «We have not taken any legal or other actions in this regard. But at the same time, in this case we are talking about expressing the opinion of the people of South Ossetia, we respect them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

🇺🇦 The speaker of the Georgian parliament, who returned from a trip to Kiev, called the reason for refusing to impose sanctions against Russia.
"We do not introduce them because they simply cannot affect the Russian economy. The main thing for Ukraine and for us is that Georgia should not be a country where Russia will have the opportunity to circumvent sanctions," Chairman of the Parliament Papuashvili said.

🇬🇪🚫🇷🇺 After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Georgia increased imports from Russia, but reduced exports there.
The State Statistics Service has published a report on foreign trade.
➡️ In March, the country purchased $91.6 million worth of Russian goods, which is 2.5% more than in the same period last year.
What Georgia bought from Russia after the start of the war:
- oil and petroleum products $21.9 million (+89%)
- gas and hydrocarbons 15.3 million; (-27%)
- electricity 7.8 million $ (+227%)
- coke and coal $5.8 million (+184%)
- margarine $3.4 million (+78%)
⬅️ Unlike exports, imports to Russia are declining. In March, the country sold $ 16.9 million worth of goods, which is 56% less than a year earlier.
What Georgia sold to Russia after the start of the war:
- grape wine $ 5.4 million (-44%)
- mineral and fresh water $ 4.9 million (-15%)
- cigarettes 0.9 million$ (+14%)
🇬🇪📉🇺🇦 The drop in Georgia's exports to Ukraine was much greater: -93%. If in March 2021 it was $ 24.6 million, then over the past month it amounted to only $ 1.8 million, of which $ 1.3 million was humanitarian aid.

🛫🚘 Rules of entry to Georgia for foreign citizens.
By popular demand, I update the rules of entry into the country.
You can arrive by plane or via the land border:
📍With any two-phase vaccine (single-phase - only Johnson is allowed), only a certificate about it is needed (the certificate form is not established). The validity period of the vaccination is preferably no more than a year.
📍When entering Georgia without a vaccine, one negative PCR test made no later than 72 hours before crossing the border will be enough.
👶 Children under 10 years of age do not need a vaccine and a PCR test.