The 2021 International Ranger Awards have been announced, and a man from Georgia - Giorgi Abramishvili is among the winners.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) will resume flight program from Kyiv to Batumi from June 10, 2021. At this stage, the flights are scheduled twice weekly every Thursday and Sunday.

The number of unemployed persons in Turkey aged 15 years old and over increased by 250 000 to 4 236 000 persons in February 2021 compared to the previous month. The unemployment rate occurred as 13.4% with 0.7 percentage point increase.

The Dutch environmental sector represented a value-added of 18.8 billion euros in 2019, contributing approximately 2.3 percent to gross domestic product (GDP). In 2001, this contribution still amounted to 1.6 percent.

In February 2021, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade rose by 2.9% in the EU and by 3.0% in the euro area, compared with January 2021, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2021, the retail trade volume fell by 5.2% in the euro area and by 4.6% in the EU.

According to Mikheil Khidureli, Director of the Enterprise Georgia Agency, the Foreign Investment Facilitation Facility (FDI Grant) program has had a great impact on foreign investors and there are companies that are interested in Georgia's investment potential due to this promotion mechanism.

Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the NCDC, responds to a statement made by a spokesman for China's National Center for Disease Control that Chinese vaccines against coronavirus are ineffective.

On April 9, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Eighth Review of Georgia’s economic reform program supported by a four-year extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). This is the last review under the arrangement and its completion will release SDR 78 million (about $111 million), bringing total disbursements to SDR 484 million (about $687 million).

US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan called on the Georgian government to monitor and implement all the restrictions against COVID-19 in practice. She also focused on the need for vaccination, emphasizing that this process is crucial for managing the pandemic.

Strasbourg, 12.04.2021 – Over the past two years, Georgia has implemented two more recommendations issued by GRECO in 2016, on the prevention of corruption in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors, said the Council of Europe anti-corruption group GRECO in a new compliance report published today.

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies is making business resilience its top priority with a push to develop its software capabilities as it seeks to overcome U.S. restrictions that have devastated its smartphone business.

US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan has put an emphasis on the need to resume direct flights between Georgia and the US.

Russia’s Federation Council Senator Grigory Karasin told Moscow-based daily newspaper Kommersant that it is “early” to talk about resuming air traffic with Georgia.

This evening a window will be opened for making reservations for AstraZeneca vaccination. As Amiran Gamkrelidze, the head of NCDC, stated, all the places are booked until April 30, so from today it will be possible to make reservations for the week after Easter.

As of April 12, 20,622 citizens have been vaccinated in Georgia. According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, an average of 1,200 people are vaccinated daily, which is very little.

United Airlines said it expects first-quarter revenue to drop by 66%, which is near the lower end of its prior forecast, buoyed by improving demand for domestic travel.

Alibaba does not expect any material impact from the antitrust crackdown in China that will push it to overhaul how it deals with merchants, its CEO said on Monday, after regulators fined the e-commerce giant $2.75 billion for abusing market dominance.

China's top disease control official has said the efficacy of the country's Covid vaccines is low, in a rare admission of weakness.

The Government of Georgia started preparing for the refinancing of Eurobonds and started negotiations with international investment banks - JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and ICBC in March.

Irakli Kovzanadze, Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee, believes that the interest rate on loans and the debt burden are rather high, but should not encourage anti-bank sentiments.