Galt & Taggart Securities (does this ring a bell?), Bank of Georgia's (group of companies I used to work for) investment arm and one of the leading investment banks in Georgia last week circulated to it's analytics subscribers a presentation on current state and immediate prospects of the Georgian economy.

It's a short, but rich in numbers report in answer to recent enquiries from bank's "clients, friends and well-wishers".  Such reports are very rare as financial information about Georgia is very hard to find.  More I was delighted to discover that G&T's view on the economy agrees with mine (here and here).

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The only Russian-made products I still use in my daily life are gas in my kitchen and matches I light it with. While I cannot yet expect the disappearance of matches - as they apparently aren’t a product strategic enough for Russia to cut it’s supply to Georgia - soon I won’t be able to tell for sure that the gas I’m using is Russian.

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