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Georgian Wine and Culinary Day in Tbilisi
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On October 15-16, the National Tourism Agency organized the Georgian Wine and Culinary Day to popularize Georgian wine and related Georgian products. The first-time event consisted of several parts: an exhibition of Georgian wine, a master class, as well as a contest for Georgian cooks. The evening was topped-off with a charity gala dinner.
For this occasion, the tandem of well-known chef Claude Bosi and wine expert Isabelle Legeron were invited to the event in Tbilisi.
Claude’s restaurant in London – Hibiscus – is rated among the 50 best in the world and his partner, Isabelle Legeron is known widely as one of the preeminent experts on wine. In Georgia, Claude and Isabelle implemented the project “Kitchen Assistant”.
Within the framework of the project, Claude Bosi and Isabelle Legeron provided a master class and created a contest for the best young talented cooks. A specially selected jury chaired by Claude Bosi evaluated the contestants.
The winner of the contest was 27-year-old cook at the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Vladimer Barsegian. He was awarded with a two-week internship in London, which will allow him to get to know the high-quality products of Michelin with the Hibiscus team.
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Bakoooooh...
EuroVision next year? Will they be ready?
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Author: By Tony Hanmer
(The pun in my title doesn’t even work in Azeri, which spells the city using its dot-less “i”, and pronounces it more like “bakuh”. Such are the pitfalls of messing with someone else’s language.)
We almost didn’t make it across the border - at least I didn’t; my wife, being Georgian, wouldn’t have any serious problems. But my dual citizenship was letting me down for once, and this on the Georgian side of the railway crossing not the Azeri side, with which I am still more inclined to associate corruption these days. The thing was, I must have had my British passport stamped into Georgia early this year, back from Canada, not my Canadian one. And now I had only the Canadian passport with me - and no evidence of my last entry into the country I was now attempting to leave. Big problem, said the Georgian border guard.
The days of these people - on either side - trying to scare me into a nice fat ca$h donation were long gone; I wasn’t even thinking of a bribe. Just praying that my Azeri visa would get some use, having shelled out 120 Euros for the thing, and not having seen Azerbaijan for at least 7 years.
A tense half an hour or so later, I was told that I could depart Georgia - I suppose they must have found my entry recorded in their system. Whew, off we go. The Azeri side had a fancy suitcase thing with which they scanned passports, took photos and generally expedited one’s entry. Cool. Friends, here we come!
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Ted Lapidus in Tbilisi already
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Author: By Lika Moshiashvili
Targeting high and upper-middle income people, the Ted Lapidus store, located on Pekini Avenue, will offer men’s watches and other accessories to their customers starting the next week.
However, marketing manager of Ted Lapidus, Salome Gozalishvili told Georgia Today that they will try to accommodate the interests of all segments of the Georgian population. “Now we have quite low prices on shirts, so that not only high-income people will be able to afford to buy products at Ted Lapidus,” said Gozalishvili.
Ted Lapidus is a famous clothing, jewelry and perfume brand all over the world. Edmond Ted Lapidus was a French fashion designer, student of Christian Dior, one of the high-fashion clothing producers in the world. He is considered to be the creator and pioneer of the unisex fashion look and is credited with introducing a military and safari look into haute couture. He is credited as the first designer to put military-style shoulder straps on both male and female clothing, and with making blue jeans part of the mainstream of fashion design.
According to Gozalishvili, it was not an easy task to persuade Ted Lapidus to come to Georgia. “Negotiations were long,” she recalled, “they [the head office] make choice very carefully. But when representatives of Ted Lapidus came in Georgia, saw this place and viewed our country, we were able to convince them to open a Ted Lapidus store in Tbilisi,” she explained.
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Unique Kindergarten opens in Vake
The new kindergarten near the Vake swimming pool comes with special offers
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Author: By Kate Lekishvili
For busy parents, finding a reliable kindergarten that will provide their children with basic knowledge and education and a place where they will be safe and have access to healthy food and be able to develop both mentally and physically, can present a real headache. Thankfully, there is a place which claims they offer all of these.
Just about a month ago, a new kindergarten located in a quiet environment, right next to the Vake swimming pool was opened. Here children under the age of six can receive all the necessary skills that will prepare them for their future primary education. The kindergarten’s building is equipped with all the modern facilities necessary for a child’s development.
The kindergarten operates five-days a week, from 9am to 6pm. During this period, children are provided lessons in art, music, painting, sculpture, English, Russian, Georgian and mathematics. They also have tours throughout the city; places like Turtle Lake, Vake Park, the Botanical Garden and theatres within metropolitan Tbilisi.
One of the major aspects distinguishing this place from others is that the school offers swimming lessons in Vake’s Paddling Pool for Children three-days a week. During these lessons children are under constant supervision.
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International conference addresses better regulation
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Author: By Levani Sabanadze
Regulatory impact assessment, manuals on the drafting of laws, politics and institutions for better regulation, guidance for multi-stakeholder processes and examples and practices in Western and Eastern Europe were the key topics at the international conference on Better Regulations in Europe held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi.
The delegates representing high ranking government officials and eminent experts from eastern and western Europe including the South Caucasus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom and the USA shared their wide range of experiences on improving regulation and presented their future plans to their Georgian colleagues.
The conference that took place on October 20-21 was organized by GIZ (the Deutsche Gesellschaft fьr Internationale Zusammenarbeit, German Development Cooperation) and hosted by the Ministry of Justice. Co-organizers were the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ) and OSCE/ODIHR.
Giorgi Vashadze, the Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia spoke about the general and tangible importance of such types of conferences.
“I would like to highlight the fact that such conferences are dedicated to the adoption of better legislation by the state, which would be more oriented towards the assistance of business and welfare for each citizen,” Vashadze said.
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Polish visitors enjoy jeep tour in Georgia
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Author: By Mariam Sikharulidze
The joint pilot project, initiated by Europe’s leading auto magazines - Polish Auto Swiat 4x4 and Auto Bild Georgia, has come to an end. The project’s aim was to strengthen bilateral Polish-Georgian tourism relations.
Polish tourists who arrived in Georgia a week ago have now gone home. The project saw Polish and Georgian auto-lovers embark on jeep tours throughout Georgia. After the tour, the organizers believe that it was a successful project and will continue to promote the project in order to increase the number of tourists from Poland in the future.
“We’ve seen Svaneti, Vardzia, Borjomi, and we had two-days of off-road, but basically we moved from one place to another with the main roads, because of the bad weather, some of the passes were closed, and we had to change our route,” Auto Swiat’s brand manager and the leader of the Polish group, Monika Marciniak said.
“We really enjoyed Georgia, it’s a beautiful country. We are so excited and impressed that we definitely plan to return next summer,” Marciniak shared her final impressions with Georgia Today.
“We had a chance to meet some locals during the expedition in Ushguli (Svaneti). Georgians are very open-hearted and friendly people, we tasted the national cuisine, Marciniak said, adding that khachapuri and mtsvadi was very delicious.”
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Who will be the seven-billionth baby?
Countdown to seven billion people on Earth
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Author: By Tamar Khurtsia
This year will mark a milestone in the planet’s history. On or around October 31, the world’s seven-billionth person will be born, the United Nation estimates. Meanwhile, we look around the world’s population and ask: “Who will be the seven-billionth baby?”
One possibility is Tea Sturua, 26, a resident of Georgia, who is pregnant with her first child. Following the wedding last year, Sturua and her husband bought a small apartment in the center of Tbilisi and planned to have a baby. “Luckily, both my husband and I have jobs and we managed to make basic living conditions for our future baby and look forward to the improvement of children’s rights with regard to health, education and decent working conditions,” Sturua told Georgia Today when asked what she wishes for her future child.
With five babies being born every second, 78 million people are added to the global community each year. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Georgia in partnership with the Georgian National Museum held an event to engage partners and the general public to underscore the significance of this population milestone.
At the event that took place at the National Museum of Georgia’s exhibition hall, representatives were bought together from the government, NGOs and international donor organizations to begin the countdown for the seven- billionth baby.
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UNFPA Georgia CO launches the State of World Population 2011
“People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion”
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On October 26, UNFPA Georgia CO launches the State of World Population 2011 “People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion”.
Through personal stories, this report sheds light on the real-life challenges we face in our world of 7 billion. The report explores some of the challenges and opportunities from the perspective of individuals and describes the obstacles they confront— and overcome—in trying to build better lives for themselves, their families, communities and nations.
There is much to celebrate in world population trends over the last 60 years, especially the average life expectancy, which leapt from about 48 years in the early 1950s to about 68 in the first decade of the new century. Infant deaths plunged from about 133 in 1,000 births in the 1950s to 46 per 1,000 in the period from 2005 to 2010. Immunization campaigns reduced the prevalence of childhood diseases worldwide.
The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in its World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision (published in May 2011), foresees a global population of 9.3 billion people in 2050, and more than 10 billion by the end of this century. Much of this increase is expected to come from high fertility countries, which comprise 39 in Africa, nine in Asia, six in Oceania and four in Latin America.
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