Carrying a knife in Georgia? (the country near Russia, not the state)

[MatthewVanitas]

Greetings,
My current knife-buying plans to get a good California EDC are being put on hold. Though not for sure, I may be going to the country of Georgia for a long while on business.
Does anybody have any familiarity with the knife issue in Georgia, or any other post-Soviet nations? Does Georgia fall into the category of "you'll be shaken down by corrupt local police using the knife as an excuse to threaten prosecution" or the category of "so long as you're not carrying an RPG through downtown Tbilsi, nobody cares"?
I'd expect to be working in both rural and urban areas, so it would be mainly a utility knife, and a last-ditch defensive option. Should be clearly a civilian knife in appearance. I was leaning to the BM 705 for California, but if blade length is a non-issue in Georgia I'm inclined to the 710.
Or, if the laws/culture is pretty loose about knives in Georgia, I could just get a decent fixed blade hunting knife for utility, etc.
I realize it's a pretty obscure topic, but welcome any info from those informed about that area of the world. Take care, -MV

 

[Esav Benyamin]

From what I've seen of their knives, you might be able to get better knives there than here! They have a tradition ...

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(the country near Russia, not the state)

I can't resist throwing this in, even if it has nothing to do with knives. When I was in high school, we had a former diplomatic official give us a talk on diplomacy. His name was Dean Rusk, and at the time, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and lived only a few minutes away from our school.

He told us about a press conference he gave once in Germany, where one reporter came in late, and missed the introduction, but took notes on the rest of the meeting. Afterwards, he came up to Mr. Rusk and apologized for coming late, and asked his name and where he was from. Mr. Rusk told him, saying he was from Georgia. The man nodded, and said, Yes, I thought you had a Russian accent.

(Dean Rusk served as Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.)