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🇬🇪🎇 EXCLUSIVE: Independence Day of Georgia

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@Mikiashvili_M I am just wondering in which virtual reality you exist. Georgia beats records in tourism but you still tell some fairy tales everyday 🫠 economic growth 6%, everything is working and nothing has stopped...

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🇬🇪🍷The 17th International WinExpo 2025 will take place from June 6 to 8 in Tbilisi. Over the course of three days, dozens of small wineries and major producers from across the country will gather in the pavilions on Tsereteli Avenue.

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🇬🇪⚽️UEFA club licenses for participation in European competitions for the upcoming season granted to eight Georgian teams: "Iberia 1999", "Torpedo" Kutaisi, "Dila" Gori, "Samgurali", "Dinamo" Tbilisi, "Samtredia", "Spaeri", women's club "Lanchkhuti".

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🇬🇪🇨🇳 Tbilisi and Shanghai have signed a memorandum on establishing friendly relations between the two cities. It was signed during the visit of Tbilisi Deputy Mayor Andria Basilia to Shanghai. The document was co-signed by Shanghai Vice Mayor Xie Dong.

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🇬🇪 The Georgian Parliament has extended the mandate of the investigative commission probing the activities of the Saakashvili regime from 2003 to 2012 until July 5.

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🇬🇪🚬The Tobacco Control Alliance criticized the Georgian Parliament’s decision not to extend the standardized tobacco packaging regulations to cigarillos.

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🇬🇪 Georgian Railway has scheduled an additional train on the Tbilisi–Batumi–Tbilisi route on May 30 in connection with the concert by the American band Guns N' Roses at the Black Sea Arena.

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🇬🇪⚽️The Georgian national futsal team lost in the Round of 16 of the World Cup. In their first playoff match, the team was defeated by Serbia with a score of 3:2 and was eliminated from the tournament.

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🇬🇪🇨🇳 A freight train departed from the Chinese city of Wuhan (Hubei Province) to Georgia this past Saturday. According to Chinese media, this marks the launch of a new Trans-Caspian international transport route.

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🇬🇪🇺🇿 The Uzbek airline Fly Khiva has begun operating passenger flights between Tashkent and Batumi. The first Fly Khiva flight, carrying 121 passengers, arrived in Batumi this morning. The aircraft was welcomed according to aviation tradition—with a water salute.

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🇬🇪🇵🇱 Foreign citizens should not take part in protests in another country, said the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili. The Polish Embassy reported an increase in cases of foreign nationals, including EU citizens, being denied entry to Georgia.

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🇬🇪🇵🇱 The Polish Embassy has urged citizens to think carefully before traveling to Georgia. The diplomatic mission reminds that the Georgian authorities have the sovereign right to assess risk factors related to a foreigner’s entry and to deny entry if necessary.

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🇬🇪🚨The Tbilisi City Court sentenced Alexander Mukhadze, the director of Gldani Prison No. 8 in Tbilisi, known by the nickname "Killer," in absentia to 9 years in prison in a case involving the torture of an inmate in 2011.

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🇬🇪🇦🇿 The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament congratulated Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani people on Independence Day. In honor of the national holiday, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia hosted a reception.

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🇬🇪🪧A protest took place in Tbilisi, where couriers are demonstrating against the hiring of foreign workers and the reduction of delivery rates. The issue of foreign nationals who do not speak Georgian has become particularly pressing in recent months.

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🇬🇪🇭🇺 "We have gathered here to defend our identity. We are part of the free West that upholds traditional values, not part of the 'deep state'," said PM Irakli Kobakhidze at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Hungary.

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🇬🇪🇭🇺 The Prime Ministers of Georgia and Hungary discussed issues related to the growing cooperation between the two countries.

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🇬🇪🇭🇺 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze will take part in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The event will be held in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on May 29–30.

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🇬🇪💊The program for funding multiple sclerosis patients in Tbilisi will cost the city budget 4 million GEL in 2025, announced Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze at a city government meeting.

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🇬🇪 The Georgian government's approval will no longer be required to receive grants under the Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programs. The relevant amendments to the Law on Grants have already been submitted to the Georgian Parliament.

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