Georgia may routinely depict Russia as an inveterate troublemaker, but, when it comes to selling the government’s shares in Tbilisi power company Telasi, the Georgian government appears happy to let one Kremlin-friendly Russian company take the lead.
They’ve tried wine and they’ve tried tourism. Now the Georgian government is banking on tax-free IT zones to draw foreign investment and boost local businesses.
A pending customs union involving Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan could open a way for Georgian food products to get around a Moscow-imposed trade embargo.
