Experts of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor will visit Georgia to resume talks on deliveries of the Georgian agricultural production to Russia on August 15-21.

Director of the National Centre for Disease Control of Georgia Amiran Gamkrelidze said that Chief Sanitary Inspector of Russia and Head of the Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko's statement on activity of the American laboratory in Georgia "does not corresponding to reality".

The Georgian mineral water Borjomi has been allowed to enter the Russian market.

The Russian Federal Service on Customers' Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor) gave the "green light" to two Georgian producers for the supply of wine to Russia, Interfax reported on March 28.

The Georgian-Russian relations seem to be improving. The first steps toward rapprochement included the negotiations on economic and cultural issues. Apparently the cornerstone for bettering bilateral relations will be mainly the beverages to be exported from Georgia that Russia embargoed in 2006 following the aggravation of relations.

Russian sommeliers will arrive in Tbilisi in late March to taste Georgian wine, president of the Association of Georgian Sommeliers, Shalva Khetsuriani, said at a briefing on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported.

The Center of Georgia-Russia Economic Cooperation, an organization established in 2012 with the aim to restore economic relations between the two countries, will hold a conference for Georgian wine companies in Tbilisi on Monday.

Georgian goods may appear in the market of neighboring Russia in late spring, National Wine Agency head Levan Davitashvili said following Monday's meeting in Moscow between a Georgian delegation and Gennady Onishchenko, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, which is responsible for the protection of Russian customers.

Georgia and Russia are expected to mull resumption of supplies of Georgian wine and mineral water to the Russian market. The issue is to be considered during Monday's meeting in Moscow between a Georgian delegation and Gennady Onishchenko, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, which is responsible for the protection of Russian customers.

Some 30 million people in Russia, which is about 21 percent of the country's 143 million population, annually catch upper respiratory infections (URI) and flu, Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said, RIA Novosti reported.