Khatia Dekanoidze questions whether Georgia is fulfilling international obligations or not
By Liza Mchedlidze
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
According to the National Statistical Service of Georgia's information, 7459 Russian businesses were registered in Georgia from March 1 to August 1.
As reported by the agency "Sakstat", 544 of the registered Russian businesses are limited liability companies (LLCs), 6913 are individual entrepreneurs, and 2 are branches of foreign enterprises.
The National Statistics Service says that the activities of 542 out of 544 Russian LLCs registered in Georgia are unknown, the field of activity of 1 company is coffee processing, and another 1 is hotels without restaurants and similar accommodation facilities.
As for the 6913 Russian individual entrepreneurs registered in Georgia, the activities of only two of them are known, and the field of activity of 6911.
The largest number of Russian businesses in Georgia, 2169 businesses were registered in March. In particular, in March of this year, 147 Russian LLCs, 2021 individual entrepreneurs and one branch of a foreign enterprise were registered in Georgia.
1601 Russian businesses were registered in April, 1370 - in May, 1219 in June, and 1100 in July.
The non-transparent state of Russian businesses registered in Georgia is a problem - there is a big question mark, whether Georgia fulfills its international obligations, Khatia Dekanoidze, the chairman of the "National Movement" faction, said regarding the released information of the statistics of Russian business registrations in Georgia.
According to Dekanoidze, this is the problem that worries the majority of Georgian citizens in terms of security.
"I am working in this direction so that our partners have information regarding the fulfillment of international obligations by Georgia. Regarding the registration of Russian business and the opaque state of the field of active work, this is a big problem, it is the problem that worries the majority of Georgian citizens in terms of security. This is also included in the fulfillment of international obligations in relation to Ukraine. You know that there is an international obligation not to allow money from free capital to enter Russia, which will help Russia to activate military activities against Ukraine even more actively. Therefore, in this situation, the government of Georgia raises a lot of doubts and there is a big question mark whether Georgia fulfills its international obligations or not," said Dekanoidze.
