Sunday, December 14, 2025

Georgia adds guitar to consumer basket

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Georgia’s National Statistics Department has updated the list of items used to measure consumer prices. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–11 new products including a guitar have been added to Georgia’s consumer basket, and four products were removed from the list.

The consumer basket is a theoretical collection of items used to define the consumer price index or inflation rate

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NATO ambassadors encourage new Georgian government

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Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili (left), NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen and State Minister for Euro-Integration Alexi Petriashvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The new Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili says NATO ambassadors gave him positive signals at Wednesday’s meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission in Brussels.

Gharibashvili said the ambassadors told him the new government has strengthened

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Ivanishvili's new NGO 'Citizen' will help develop Georgian media

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Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili launched his new non-governmental organization ‘Citizen’ on Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli on Tuesday presented his new organization which he says will help develop civil society.

The new non-governmental organization (NGO) is called ‘Citizen’ and was registered 12 days ago, Ivanishvili explained

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14% more visitors to Georgia in Jan '14 than Jan '13

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Bazaleti Lake, one of the tourist destinations near Tbilisi. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–There were 14.1 percent more visitors to Georgia in January 2014 than in the same month last year, according to the Interior Ministry.

The ministry publishes monthly reports with statistics over the number of visitors, in categories defined by the purpose of the

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Georgian president's annual address postponed

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president’s annual address will be held either on February 19 or February 21, the speaker of parliament says.

According to the Constitution of Georgia, the president must once a year visit parliament to present a report about important

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