The visa-free entrance for Russian nationals may be reconsidered, Salome Zourabichvili, the president of Georgia, said as she gave a joint press conference with her Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu in Chisinau.
“We cannot rule out that the visa-free entrance [for Russians], which is pretty liberal in today’s situation, may be reconsidered. Our government and our society will decide this,” Zourabishvili said.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said in September that the authorities saw no necessity in reconsidering the respective regulation.
“There are no grounds for reconsidering the visa-free regime for Russian nationals in Georgia which the previous administration adopted. We see no risks in Russians being here, so there is no necessity in reconsidering this,” he said.
Russians may enter Georgia visa-free since 2012 and stay up to 365 days straight.