🇬🇪🏆⚽️ The European Football Championship among youth teams has started in Georgia.

The hosts started the tournament in Tbilisi with a sensational victory over the Portuguese team. Batumi (Czech Republic-England) and Kutaisi (Germany-Israel) will host the games today. The Georgian national team will play its next match in the capital, on 24.06 it will play with a strong Belgian team.
ℹ️ The final stage of the European Youth Championship 2023 is hosted by Georgia and Romania. Tournament matches involving 16 teams are hosted by 4 stadiums in Romania and 4 stadiums in Georgia (one each in Batumi and Kutaisi and two in Tbilisi). The final will take place in Batumi on July 8.
📍Batumi, "Batumi Arena": 3 matches of group C, semi-final, final
📍Kutaisi, Shengelia Arena: 3 matches of group C, quarter-finals
📍Tbilisi, "Mikhail Meskhi": 3 matches of group A, quarter-finals
📍Tbilisi, "Boris Paichadze": 3 matches of group A (with the participation of the Georgian national team)
🎫 Tickets and match schedule are available here or at the ticket office of the stadiums.

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⚡️ Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has pardoned Nika Gvaramia, director general of the opposition Mtavari TV channel.

The decree has already been signed and the media manager will be released soon.

👮🏻‍♂️ The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia will publish information about violations of citizens on its website.

Information and protocols will be displayed on the website: www.police.ge
The decision issued by the patrol police department will be received by citizens at the place of registration or the address indicated in the application. If the documentation cannot be delivered to the person, it is returned to the post office and re-sent to the same address no later than 60 days later.
❗️If the documents do not reach the addressee again, they will be returned to the Patrol Police Department for publication on the police website. For late payment of fines, penalties of up to 200% of the amount written out in the protocol are provided.
🚓 Let me remind you that car fines can be viewed here: https://videos.police.ge/

🗣 The chairman of the ruling party of Georgia called the state of health of ex-president Saakashvili "a simulation of 600 days in length".

“He feigned for 600 days – this situation has caused very wide support from foreigners, which is very regrettable. I will say it again - all those people who supported the simulation of Saakashvili, this lie, should apologize to the Georgian society. These are specific politicians and diplomats, a former public defender, members of the council, and so on - the circle of people is quite wide. This lie has been going on for 600 days, for 600 days we have been proven that this man was dying every day. You probably know this performance: "They first died, and then they got married." Saakashvili first "died" and is now returning to politics. We are dealing with complete absurdity,” said Irakli Kobakhidze.
ℹ️ On June 16, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili stated that "despite his state of health, he intends to actively engage in Georgian politics."

📥🚫 Georgian President Zurabishvili vetoed the adopted amendments to the electoral code, which change the procedure for electing the chairman and members of the Central Election Commission.

The bill limits her powers and deprives her of the right to propose a candidate for the position of head of the CEC and transfers it to the speaker of parliament. As noted, the main reason for the veto is that, under the new law, the speaker of parliament will convene a competition commission that will search for candidates for the positions of head and members of the CEC. After the selection, the head of parliament will present several candidates to the deputies, who must elect the composition of the CEC for a period of five years with at least 76 votes out of 150. According to the president, the fact that 76 deputies will be able to elect the head of the CEC instead of 100, as it was before, "cancels the decision by consensus and increases the risk of polarization."
ℹ️ According to the current law, if 100 out of 150 deputies vote for the candidacy of the head of the CEC, he will be elected for a period of five years, and if he enlists the support of a smaller number of parliamentarians, then he will be elected only for six months. From 2021, the parliament cannot elect the head of the CEC for five years, since the ruling party does not have 100 seats.
❗️The most important parliamentary elections for Georgia should be held in the country in autumn 2024.

🚁 The Mi-8 helicopter almost crashed near Mount Kazbek.

It is reported that the incident occurred on June 26: the helicopter of the State Border Guard Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia goes to the second circle without a nose landing gear when trying to land on the landing site of a tourist camp near a weather station of Mount Kazbek.
❗️In July 2022, a similar border helicopter crashed in the Gudauri region, 8 people died.
📹 video by Helincidents channel

🛠🏗 One of the main Tbilisi sights, Peace Bridge, will be closed for reconstruction.

According to Mayor Kakha Kaladze, the work will begin in July and will last for about two months. According to him, the concrete reinforcement of the bridge is currently deformed and needs to be repaired. There is also a problem with the suspended structures, which resulted in uneven loading on the bridge. In addition, the mayor's office plans to replace part of the bridge's unique lighting. 1 million 400 thousand lari ($530 thousand) were allocated for the reconstruction. During the repair, access to the bridge will be closed to people.
ℹ️ The Peace Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the Kura River (Mtkvari). It has a 156-meter steel frame covered with glass. The whole structure rests on 4 pillars. The architect of the bridge is the famous Italian specialist Michele de Lucchi. The building opened in 2010.

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👮🏻‍♂️ The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reported that 52 people, including 37 drug dealers, were detained as part of a special operation on charges of drug crimes.
Among them are foreigners: citizens of Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, Nigeria, India and Iran. Among the detainees were also women and one minor.
The police during the day made test purchases, fixing the process on audio and video. Large consignments of narcotic drugs were seized. Two people were found carrying firearms during the search.
ℹ️ Detainees face up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.

❗️In the very center of Tbilisi, on the Zviad Gamsakhurdia Embankment, a tree fell on the Baratashvili Bridge.
Fortunately, there were no casualties. The lighting tower on the bridge itself was damaged. The traffic was blocked by a taxi driver passing there, and later the police and utilities arrived.

🇺🇦🛬🇬🇪 Ukraine has imposed sanctions for a period of 10 years against the Georgian "Georgian Airways".

The decree regarding the airline that resumed direct flights to Russia has already been signed by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

📹❤️🎉 An aunt in Georgia gave her nephew an unexpected gift.

The boy Tsotne was congratulated by his favorite rugby and football players of the national teams. The video has thousands of comments. Some are happy, others say that their children also want such a congratulation, others are discussing whether the gun on the table is a toy or not?
😂 But the most important thing starts from the 30th second, the reaction of a teenager is indescribable. Look!

☀️⛈ The National Environment Agency of Georgia warns of heat and rain coming this week (from 03.07 to 09.07.) in most regions.
📍According to weather forecasts, the coming days in Tbilisi will be +32-35 degrees, Tue-Wed and Sat-Sun, precipitation of 3-5 mm is possible.
📍In Batumi +26-31 degrees, starting from Friday, lingering rains with thunderstorms up to 30 mm of precipitation per day.
📍In Kutaisi and the central regions, the beginning of the week is sunny and hot, +31-35 degrees, and starting from Friday it starts to rain up to 13 mm of precipitation per day and it will become a little cooler, about +27 degrees.

⚖️ The ex-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, appeared for the first time in public since February: the accusation of a politician of abuse of power is being heard in the Tbilisi City Court.
The case concerns the events of 2007, the dispersal of opposition actions and the invasion of special forces into the Imedi television company.
Saakashvili, who had lost a lot of weight, in his speech urged to release him under house arrest or to impose a punishment related to deprivation of liberty and called for punishment of those responsible for his arrest:
“Put an iron bracelet on me, if you want me not to run away - I ask for one thing - an open discussion! Let me participate in the debate and let the people decide if you are right or I am. I appeal to the Speaker of the Parliament, you must apologize for bringing me to this situation. You must apologize to the MEPs, my family, me, the Ukrainian authorities and the Georgian people. You put me in this position. I want to say that everyone who betrayed Ukraine and Georgia should be punished with the toughest sanctions.”
📹 video by Mtavari Archi

⛈ Tbilisi was covered with thunder, lightning and downpour.
Eyewitnesses report that in several areas of the city the streets are already flooded and the passage of vehicles is difficult. They write to me that there is a power outage in the city and a fire in the area of ​​the Kuki cemetery.

🇬🇪🛫 Air communication news of Georgia.
There have been several developments in this area over the past week.
🇮🇳 Indian airline "IndiGo" has opened ticket sales from Tbilisi to Delhi: flights start from August 9, cost from $183 one way and $346 for a round-trip flight
website: https://www.goindigo.in/
🇲🇹 in August and September there will be direct flights from Tbilisi to Malta, tickets from 750 GEL can be bought here: https://fly.tkt.ge/
🇷🇺 Russian Azimuth announced an increase in flights from one to two a day from Moscow to Tbilisi. Since July 5, the schedule has a second flight, evening: departure from Vnukovo at 18:00
website: https://azimuth.aero/ru
🇷🇺 Russian «Red Wings» announced the opening of flights to Georgia: flights will be operated from Moscow to Kutaisi and from Sochi to Tbilisi
website: https://flyredwings.com/
🇬🇪 in Georgia will appear domestic, local carrier, airline from 01.08 will fly on the Tbilisi-Batumi-Tbilisi route, the travel time will be 55 minutes