Russian Interpreting in Tbilisi and Russian Localization for the CIS Market

Russian interpreter at the notary: legally required and practically essential

Georgian notarial law requires an interpreter for any party who does not speak Georgian, and the notary records the interpreter in the deed. Many Russian speakers assume the notary will simply switch to Russian; some notaries do speak it, but they may not act as interpreter in their own deed, so a separate interpreter is needed anyway. Because our office works with a licensed notary at Agmashenebeli 117, the interpreter is built into the appointment. The most common acts for Russian-speaking clients are powers of attorney to relatives in Russia or Kazakhstan, apartment purchases in Tbilisi and Batumi, marriage contracts, wills covering Georgian property, and founding documents for LLCs and individual entrepreneurs.

You receive the bilingual Georgian-Russian draft before the appointment, the interpreter reads each clause with you at the signing, and the notary certifies the act in one sitting.

Accompaniment to the House of Justice, banks, Revenue Service and clinics

The Public Service Hall in Tbilisi serves many clients in Russian, but forms, receipts and decisions are in Georgian, and interpreting support saves repeat visits. We accompany clients to residence permit submissions and biometrics, to company registration, to the Revenue Service for tax registration and individual entrepreneur status, to banks for account opening and compliance interviews, to the Public Registry for property transactions, and to the Service Agency for vehicle registration and driving license exchange. Medical accompaniment is a separate service: an interpreter at consultations, diagnostics and hospital admissions in Georgian clinics, with translation of the resulting records afterwards.

Court interpreting and legal proceedings in Russian

Georgian courts provide interpreters in criminal cases, but in civil, family and commercial cases the parties bring their own. Divorce and custody cases between Russian-speaking spouses, disputes with landlords, labor claims by relocated employees and commercial disputes involving Georgian companies with Russian-speaking owners all require an interpreter who knows procedural language in both legal systems. We also interpret at police interviews, at the Public Service Development Agency's interviews for citizenship and at notary depositions, and we translate the case file so that the client reads exactly what the court will read.

Business interpreting: negotiations, conferences, remote meetings

Russian remains a working language of business across the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Georgian companies dealing with Kazakh, Uzbek, Armenian or Belarusian partners often negotiate in it. We provide consecutive interpreters for negotiations, site visits, audits and board meetings, and simultaneous interpreting with equipment for conferences, trainings and government events; Georgian-Russian-English three-way events are our most common configuration. Remote simultaneous interpreting through Zoom's language channels is available for online conferences and webinars, and remote consecutive interpreting for short meetings. Interpreters prepare from your agenda and glossary in advance.

Russian localization for Georgian companies selling into the CIS

Georgian wine, mineral water, tourism, real estate, clinics and software sell to a Russian-speaking market of more than two hundred million people across Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and beyond, and to the large Russian-speaking population now living in Georgia itself. Localization for that market means more than translation: adapting tone, currency, units, date formats and legal disclaimers, choosing the regional variant of a term, and writing meta titles that match what Russian speakers actually search for. We localize websites, booking engines, mobile apps, e-commerce catalogs, menus, real estate listings, medical tourism pages and social media content, working directly in your CMS, in JSON and XLIFF files or in design files, and we test the result on the live site.

Proofreading and editing Russian text written in Georgia

A great deal of Russian is written in Georgia by people for whom it is a second language: hotel and restaurant staff, developers writing app strings, marketing teams, lawyers drafting bilingual contracts. Native Russian editors polish that text so it reads as if written in Moscow or Almaty, without the calques from Georgian that Russian-speaking customers notice instantly. We edit websites, brochures, contracts, presentations, real estate listings and customer support scripts, and we return tracked changes so your team learns the patterns. For companies that produce Russian content continuously - property developers, tour operators, clinics - we offer a monthly editing retainer with a fixed page allowance.

Booking is simple: send the date, place or meeting link, the subject and any documents the interpreter should read beforehand. Consecutive interpreting is billed hourly with a two-hour minimum on site in Tbilisi and no minimum beyond the first hour for remote sessions; simultaneous work is billed by half-day or day with two interpreters alternating. Same-day bookings are usually possible during office hours.

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