Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Tuesday announced a new initiative to enhance the domestic innovation ecosystem by assigning companies a status of innovative startups and granting them tax exemptions for three years.
Having successfully obtained the EU candidate country status, Georgia is now poised to engage in membership negotiations with the European Union. We are now working on new ‘9 steps’. And this is a challenging period for our future integration with the EU, because the process coincides with the parliamentary elections later this year. Therefore, we need to make a serious effort to secure our democracy.
On March 4, I travelled from Tbilisi to Berlin, only to discover at the airport of the German capital that Georgia was still in front of me in the middle of Europe. The reason for this was the numerous advertising banners that positioned Georgia impressively with the messages of “Infinite hospitality - Georgia”, “Find Infinite Wonders”, “Meet Infinite Culture” and more. I quickly realised the Georgian adventure in Berlin was only beginning.
As I am approaching the end of my ambassadorial term in Georgia, it is time to take a small step back and try to absorb all the unforgettable personal and professional experiences of the past 2.5 years. Time has flown so incredibly fast and it’s impossible to believe that soon I’ll have to pack up once again and move on.
Today, December 13, 2021, English-language Georgian news platform Agenda.ge is marking its 8th birthday. I am retiring as the editor in chief of Agenda.ge at the end of December 2021. My mission and time as the head of Agenda.ge has come to its end. Starting January 1, 2022, I will no longer be the editor-in-chief.
The European Union Delegation to Georgia on Monday said the bloc considered polling stations opened in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the Russian presidential election without consent of the Georgian Government “illegal”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Tuesday hosted Ilia Topuria, a Georgian mixed martial arts wrestler who last month became the first athlete from the country to earn the title of the UFC World Featherweight Champion.
The Government of Georgia on Monday discussed ongoing preparations for hosting the 57th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Tbilisi in May.
The Revenue Service of Georgia on Monday said customs operators of e-Gezi - an electronic service for Customs Clearance Zones - had registered 61,440 customs declarations within the past six months, marking a 10 percent increase year-on-year.
The Times of India, an English-language Indian daily newspaper and digital news media, is promoting Georgia and its capital of Tbilisi as a visitor destination.
Die Welt, a German national daily newspaper, is promoting Georgia’s north-western highland region of Svaneti as a destination for winter sport enthusiasts by calling it a “crown of the Caucasus”.
Arab News, Saudi Arabia's English-language daily newspaper, is promoting Georgia and its capital of Tbilisi as destinations influenced by “many different cultures and eras”, urging readers to visit the city it says has a “character all its own”.
American media outlet CNN has published an article about Georgian winemaking, detailing the 8,000-year-old sustained tradition on the territory of the country and wide range of wine varieties produced in the country.