“The demand on red grapes, Saperavi, in particular, is at least two times more than the expected harvest.”

“The rating of Georgia has improved in the ratings of Moody’s credit rating agency. The agency has changed its assessment from stable to positive.”

“The profitability of the commercial banks is 14.5% annually. This means that their yearly profit is 14.5% of the total capital which is definitely not a ‘super-profit’ or a ‘mega-profit’ if such terms even exist.”

“We had two economic forecasts regarding the external and domestic debts. The first one was at the beginning of 2013 whilst another was at the beginning of 2014. Now we have a third one, following this report. These forecasts keep getting worse.”

“We increased the trade turnover with Armenia by 42% in the first six months of 2014 and by 50% last year as compared to 2012.”

“The 6 January 2014 Directive No. 40 of the Government of Georgia means directly giving a monopoly to a particular organisation (Georgian Post).”

“Our competitiveness is growing. We have made significant progress over the period of the last two years… A field such as macroeconomic stability is being improved.”

“The International Education Centre has already funded the studies of 77 students in leading universities of the world.”

“More than 100,000 families in Georgia live on money transfers exactly from this country (Russia).”

“The irrigation system work near the border with the occupied territories is finished. Thirty-five villages, nearly 20 thousand hectares and 18 thousand families are already receiving irrigation water.”

“Investments in education and science have been on the rise since 2012… the annual expenditure of an average family on secondary education has been reduced by 60%.”

“We distributed GEL 11 million less bonuses and GEL 38 million less wage surpluses in 2013 than in 2012.”

“Medication for the socially vulnerable is being financed by 50% throughout the year. Although, this is a very small amount.”

On 19 September, as a guest on the Public Broadcaster’s TV programme, First Studio, the Minister of

“In 2013, in 39 villages near the occupation dividing line, the problem of irrigation water was solved, up to 20 clinics were built, roads were rehabilitated, students living in this region got funding for their studies, the gasification process began in

“According to the 2013 economic forecast of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, the economy should have reached GEL 32 billion in 2014. According to the current forecast, we will be losing GEL 3 billion. We have lost more than USD half a billion in curren