in 2008, tianeti was still the centre of the municipality (which is the contemporary analogue to soviet-era term ‘rayon’) with two secondary schools, two kindergartens, a vocational school, library, hospital and ethnographic museum. a municipal governance office, post office, and police station are also located in tianeti. one of the georgian banks has an office in tianeti. there is a farmer’s market, where most of the population purchases food, and several private grocery stores. none of the factories and farms that operated during the soviet time are working today, and no new enterprises have been established.