Activities of majority of Russian businesses recently registered in Georgia unknown as they are inactive - Statistics Office Head
Gogita Todradze, the Head of the National Statistics Office of Georgia, said on Wednesday the majority of the 7,459 Russian businesses registered in the country over the past five months were inactive. Photo: Geostat
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Gogita Todradze, the Head of the National Statistics Office of Georgia, said on Wednesday the activities of the majority of recently registered Russian businesses in Georgia were unknown as they had not started operations, in comments of the latest data of the agency that showed 7,459 Russian businesses registered in the country between March 1 and August 1, with only four of the entities indicating their activities in their registration.
In his remarks, Todradze said registering a company did not necessarily mean an immediate start of operation, in his response to criticism of a part of the domestic opposition that said activities of registered Russian companies in Georgia were “unidentified” on the backdrop of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
There are more than 800,000 companies registered in Georgia, but only 200,000 of them are active. The Statistics Office is aware of the activities of most of the functional companies in the country”, Todradze said.
Ruling Georgian Dream party MP Mikheil Sarjveladze said on Tuesday there was “nothing alarming” in the number of Russian businesses registered in Georgia over the past five months, noting that it was “best international practice” that the domestic legislation did not require entrepreneurs to indicate a specific activity in the process of registering a company.
Ukrainian citizens currently in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi will receive services of a select group of sports centres, museum venues, theatre halls, libraries and art schools free of charge, Tbilisi City Hall announced earlier today.
Ruling Georgian Dream party MP Mikheil Sarjveladze said on Tuesday there was “nothing alarming” in the number of Russian businesses registered in Georgia over the past five months, in comments of the latest data of the National Statistics Office that showed 7,459 Russian businesses registered in the country between March 1 and August 1.
Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the country would “not start a war against Russia” and “does not get involved in the Russia-Ukraine war”, stressing the “influx” of visitors to Georgia in the wake of the conflict's outbreak was welcomed.
Calls by the Lelo for Georgia opposition party to impose visa requirements for Russian and Belarusian citizens serve the goal of dragging Georgia into Russia’s war in Ukraine, ruling Georgian Dream party MP Anri Okhanashvili said on Thursday in remarks that also reminded the opposition that the visa requirement with Russia had been lifted by the former President Mikheil Saakashvili while in office.
The head of the State Security Service of Georgia, Grigol Liluashvili, on Friday said the law enforcement officers have been trying to “filter out unwanted guests” and noted there have been “zero” crime statistics of incoming tourists.