Giorgi Rtskhiladze

Logical Strategies LLC — of which Rtskhiladze is the founding partner — retained Javelin Advisors LLC in Q3 2025, paying $1.2 million to lobby on the EPA Part 1 chrysotile asbestos rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act and on government contracts ³. George Sorial, a Javelin co-founder and former Trump Organization executive, and Keith Schiller, a Javelin lobbyist whose covered position was Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Director of Oval Office Operations, were the registered lobbyists Connection #3234Connection #3235.

The timeline of EPA action maps against the lobbying engagement. Records show that the EPA filed in the Fifth Circuit on June 16, 2025 seeking a 30-month reconsideration of the March 2024 chrysotile ban ⁷. Records indicate that on July 7, 2025, EPA withdrew that motion following public opposition ⁷. Records indicate that Rtskhiladze's Q4 2025 LDA report records zero activity, and Javelin filed no lobbying disclosures on this matter after the withdrawal ⁷. The engagement lasted approximately one quarter. The LDA framework does not require disclosure of the ultimate client if Logical Strategies is acting as the registrant principal; FARA, by contrast, would require disclosure if a foreign government or foreign principal were directing the work ⁴. No FARA registration for Rtskhiladze, Logical Strategies, or Toroil Group appeared in the DOJ FARA database as of the research date ⁴.

Rtskhiladze's FEC-documented political contributions during February–May 2025 total at least $1,337.72, distributed across Never Surrender Inc ($262.86), Trump National Committee JFC Inc ($468.46), WinRed ($468.46), and the RNC ($137.94) ⁵. All contributions are clustered in the period overlapping with the Q3 2025 LDA registration ⁵. No employer or occupation is listed on the FEC records ⁵.

The March 2024 EPA rule banning chrysotile asbestos was the regulatory event that the Javelin engagement targeted ³. Uralasbest, Russia's largest chrysotile producer at approximately 21% of global output, had publicly circulated packaging bearing the phrase 'APPROVED BY DONALD TRUMP' in 2018; Kostanai Minerals of Kazakhstan, at approximately 20% of global output, amplified the post ⁶. Neither Uralasbest nor Kostanai Minerals has any detected FARA or LDA registrations in the United States ⁸. Russia and Kazakhstan together account for an estimated 68% of global chrysotile production ⁶. No EDGAR filings were found for Uralasbest, Kostanai Minerals, Logical Strategies, or Rtskhiladze as SEC filers or named individuals ⁸.

The direct US importers present a different picture. According to trade records, OxyChem (Occidental Chemical) was the only US company still importing raw chrysotile as of 2023–2024, sourcing from Brazil and China rather than Russia or Kazakhstan ⁹. According to the same records, Olin ceased importing by 2021 and Westlake by 2016 ⁹. Analysis of import data indicates that the primary US beneficiaries of delaying the ban are domestic chlor-alkali producers — OxyChem, Olin, Westlake — not Russian or Kazakh exporters, who had already lost US market access under the 2024 rule ⁹. Analysis of the same data indicates that if the Brazil-source supply were also restricted, Russian and Kazakh producers would be the next available global source ⁹. The identity of any party directing or funding the Logical Strategies campaign has not been established in the public record; the available evidence does not resolve whether the beneficial interest is domestic (chlor-alkali industry), foreign (CIS producers seeking future US market re-entry), or both.

Rtskhiladze's business relationship with Trump's circle predates the 2025 lobbying engagement by over a decade. Through Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance, he brokered Trump Tower Batumi and explored Trump Tower Astana and Moscow with Michael Cohen in 2011 ¹⁰. Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance is a US subsidiary of Silk Road Group SA (Georgia); BTA Bank Kazakhstan held a 51% co-ownership stake in Silk Road Bank Georgia until Silk Road Group acquired the remaining 49% in October 2014 ¹. BTA Bank had at that point been the subject of a major fraud proceeding involving former chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov ¹.

The Mueller Report cited Rtskhiladze in a footnote recording that he texted Cohen that he had 'stopped flow of some tapes from Russia' ². Rtskhiladze filed suit in 2020 (Case 1:20-cv-01591, Rtskhiladze v. Mueller) seeking retraction of that characterization ². The DC Circuit reversed a district court dismissal in August 2024 and remanded the retraction claim; the district court issued a partial grant/denial on a motion to dismiss on May 30, 2025 ². The case was terminated December 31, 2025 per CourtListener ². The litigation is a defamation and retraction action; it does not constitute a finding of criminal liability ².

Rtskhiladze is listed on LinkedIn as the founder of Logical Strategies LLC (New York) and as Managing Partner of Green Wind Energy Group Inc, a vehicle for US investment firm partnerships in wind farm development in the Former Soviet region ¹. He is also the author of Kompromat: My Story from Trump to Mueller and USSR to USA ¹⁰. His 2025 political contributions are documented from 32 Old Bethel Rd, Newtown CT 06470 ⁵.

Toroil Group, with Rtskhiladze as President, brokered oil and energy transactions in Russia and provided advisory services including work on Russia's largest commercial wind farm ¹. Green Wind Energy Group Inc, where Rtskhiladze is Managing Partner, pursues wind farm development in the Former Soviet region in partnership with US investment firms ¹. These roles establish an active operational footprint in Russian energy markets concurrent with his US lobbying activities.

Cross-reference of Rtskhiladze's CIS energy relationships, the Silk Road Group–BTA Bank Kazakhstan connection, and his 2025 lobbying on behalf of a party with undisclosed identity indicates a pattern consistent with leveraging pre-existing Trump relationships to serve CIS-connected interests; this is a synthesis finding rated medium confidence ¹¹. No direct documented link between Rtskhiladze and Uralasbest or Kostanai Minerals was identified during the research period ⁸. No OpenSanctions entry exists for Giorgi Rtskhiladze; only Shalva Rtskhiladze appears, in Georgia's asset declaration dataset ⁸.