Natural gas supplies to Georgia via the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline have been resumed, Sevtransgaz, a company that conducted the repairs said. The energy crisis in Georgia began January 22 when explosions hit the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia and a power line in southern Russia cutting off Russian gas and electricity supplies to Georgia and Armenia.
The crisis escalated when a major power failure in the early hours last Thursday in Georgia left 95% of consumers in Tbilisi, the country's capital, without electricity, while the power supply in the country's western region has been restricted to vital facilities. The east has been almost entirely cut off from power supplies.