Daily News December 27, 2024	Days:  25 26 27 08 09

politics

US PUT BIDZINA IVANISHVILI ON SANCTIONS LIST

Today, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has updated its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list.

The updated list includes billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder and honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream.




GEORGIA’S PREMIER: TODAY, RELATIONS WITH THE EU AND THE US ARE AT ABSOLUTELY UNDESIRABLE LEVEL, WE DEMAND A RESET

“Today, relations with the EU and the US are at a completely undesirable level”, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze declared on the air of Imedi TV company and added: “We demand a reset”. “Although we have optimistic expectations, including these expectations related to changes in the US”, he said.




GEORGIA’S PREMIER WARNED GEORGIAN PRESIDENT TO LEAVE RESIDENCE

“It is our duty to warn [Georgian President] Salome Zurabishvili against committing a crime”, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze declared today. “It would be very bad picture, if we have to remove her forcefully from the residence and move to a penal institution”, he said.




GEORGIAN YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: SCALE OF POLICE VIOLENCE SINCE NOVEMBER 28 PROVES THAT A CRIMINAL OPERATION AGAINST CIVIL INVOLVEMENT IS PRESENT

A month has passed since November 28, during which the country was covered by a large-scale daily legitimate protest because of suspension by the Georgian Dream of negotiations on joining the EU, the Georgian Young Lawyers Association indicated.

Although the demonstrations are peaceful, the police dispersed the protests arbitrarily and violently, the organization said, noting that the scale and organization of police violence prove that a criminal operation against civilian involvement is present.

economics

GEORGIA’S CONCEPT OF FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT APPROVED

By a decree issued on December 26, Georgia’s government approved the concept of food waste management in the country. The concept should be implemented in 2025-2028.

business

OPPOSITION POLITICIAN: TENDER ANNOUNCED BY TBILISI CITY HALL FOR PROCUREMENT OF SUBWAY CARS TAILORED FOR CHINESE “CRRC”

Tbilisi City Hall announced a tender for procurement of subway cars totaling to 205 million EUR, while plans to procure cars of about 450 million EUR in total, opposition politician (United National Movement) Irakli Abesadze posted on social media. According to my information, this tender is tailored for the Chinese corporation CRRC, which is very likely to win, he says.




IDFI: “HOSPITALS CATERING SYSTEMS” IS ABOUT TO WIN INTERIOR MINISTRY’S TENDER FOR CATERING SERVICES

In the tender, announced by Georgian Interior Ministry for the provision of food for officers participating in “measures to protect public security and law and order”, LLC Hospitals Catering Systems is about to win, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) said. The Interior Ministry has announced public procurement on November 8, while started acceptance of proposals on December 7.

society

MONUMENT TO HERACLIUS II WILL BE ERECTED IN TBILISI’S RENOVATED SAMGORI PARK

In the autumn of 2025, Georgia’s government is going to erect a monument to the Georgian king Erekle II (Heraclius II) in Tbilisi, in the recently rehabilitated Samgori Park. While declaring this, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze noted: “Erekle II is a symbol of heroism, patriotism, pragmatism, selflessness”.