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Georgian PM: innovative startups to be exempted from all taxes for 3 years
19 Mar 2024 - 13:07

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.

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Civil society should play a constructive role in 2024 elections
Shalva Papuashvili
09 Feb 2024

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.

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How did Georgia’s “Infinite Hospitality” arrive in Berlin?
Salome Tsereteli
19 Mar 2023

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.

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Ambassador of Israel Ran Gidor: I simply can’t get enough of Georgia
Ran Gidor
05 Apr 2022

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.

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My mission is over
It is time for me to say goodbye to Agenda.ge
Natalia Amaglobeli
13 Dec 2021

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.

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EU, France condemn Russian presidential election polling stations in Georgia’s occupied territories
19 Mar 2024

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”.

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PM meets first Georgian UFC World Champion
19 Mar 2024

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.

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Georgian Gov’t reviews preparations for hosting Asian Development Bank annual meeting
19 Mar 2024

The Government of Georgia on Monday discussed ongoing preparations for hosting the 57th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Tbilisi in May.

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Declarations registered by electronic customs platform of Georgia up by 10% y/y
19 Mar 2024

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.

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Times of India: “5 must-visit countries before they get crowded”
Ekaterine Bitskinashvili
31 Jan 2024

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.

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Die Welt: “In Svaneti, skiers get to know solitude”
Ekaterine Bitskinashvili
10 Jan 2024

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”.

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Arab News: “Georgia’s jewel: Take a trip to Tbilisi”
Ekaterine Bitskinashvili
09 Jan 2024

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”.

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CNN: “The story of Georgian wine Marked by 8000 years of continuous vintage”
Mariam Papidze
13 Dec 2023

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. 

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