Today and tomorrow (June 19-20) the outgoing sitting of the parliamentary majority and the Cabinet of Ministers will be held at the Borjomi Likani Hotel.

On Sunday, 20 June, voters in Armenia will go to the polls to elect new members of the National Assembly. Ahead of these elections, on 17 June, EU Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin gathered representatives of UNDP Armenia, OxYGen Armenia and two domestic observer groups, Akanates and Independent Observers, to mark important EU contributions to consolidate democratic election processes in Armenia.

American traders gained the most in Bitcoin investment last year, pocketing $4.1 billion in profits by trading in the decentralized cryptocurrency, according to estimates from Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company. The meteoric rise in the value of Bitcoin has minted scores of crypto millionaires, and the Chainalysis report suggests that US investors have benefited the most from the 2020 boom, followed by Chinese traders who gained $1.1 billion.

European Union annual inflation was 2.3% in May 2021, up from 2.0% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 0.6%. The euro area annual inflation rate was 2.0% in May 2021, up from 1.6% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 0.1%.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan predicts growth of Kazakhstani exports by more than 20% at the end of 2021.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bought domestic government bonds worth UAH 2.774 million (US$102,003), according to his asset declaration on significant changes in property status published in the register of electronic declarations on the website of Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention, UKRINFORM reports.

"If railways and land roads between Armenia and Azerbaijan are reopened, Armenia will turn into a major international transport hub connecting the Iranian ports of the Persian Gulf with the Black Sea ports, as well as with Russian ports in the Baltic and Pacific Ocean," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said, ARKA reports.

Google representatives are digitizing Adjara. In particular, at the invitation of the Department of Tourism of Adjara, the official representatives of the technology giant are visiting the region with photographers.

Strasbourg, 18.06.2021 – In a joint urgent opinion issued today, the Venice Commission and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (“ODIHR”) acknowledge that revised draft amendments to the Election Code of Georgia have been prepared in close cooperation between the ruling party and several opposition parties.

"As you know, the World Bank was one of the main donors during the pandemic and is still an important partner in the process of vaccination. I want to publicly thank the world bank for its help," - Minister Irakli Gharibashvili made joint statements with the Vice President of the World Bank in Europe and Central Asia.

Germany has now given at least one coronavirus vaccine shot to more than half its population but officials urged people Friday to remain cautious and slow the spread of the more contagious delta variant.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested US$ 50 million in the first green bond issued by Georgian Railway (GR), the state-owned national railway company of Georgia.

The lari depreciated as a result of the June 18 trade. The change in the exchange rate against the US dollar was 0.94 tetri, as a result of which the official value of the dollar became 3.1681 GEL.

ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the smash-hit video app TikTok, saw its earnings double last year.

UK food and drink exports to the European Union almost halved in the first three months of the year, compared with the same period in 2020.

Today, Geostat released a revised report on economic growth, reflecting the figures for the first quarter of 2021. According to the preliminary estimates published so far, the Georgian economy shrank by 4.2% during this period compared to the same period last year. Still, according to the updated results today, the economic decline is higher and is minus 4.5%.

Germany wants to exit its stake in flagship carrier Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) as soon as possible, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Friday.

Concerns over the effectiveness of China’s Sinovac vaccine continue to grow—Indonesia reported hundreds of outbreaks among medical professionals who took the vaccine and hard-hit Costa Rica declined to use it for fear it won’t work—the latest stumbling block for China’s global vaccination drive as heavily vaccinated countries deploying its two flagship vaccines face some of the world’s worst outbreaks.

Georgian real estate worker says that his relations with Georgia continues and they use Georgian human resources in Georgia for creating and forming the company. Accordingly, the company logo and website are made in Georgia. Avtandil Chkheidze says that after mastering the US market, the company plans to open a branch of the American Company in Georgia in the first quarter of 2022.

According to the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, the air company will carry out five flights a week before July 20 and two flights per day from July 20.