Bad news for Zurabishvili: Moscow is not going to make peace with Georgia
The Georgian authorities are to blame for the current aggravation of Russian-Georgian relations, having actually made Russia the injured party.
Vladimir Novikov, a senior researcher at the Institute for Socio-Political Research of the Black Sea Region, stated this in a commentary to Moskovsky Komsomolets.
“We need to apologize not so much for the protests as for the words of President Salome Zurabishvili. She is not an anti-Russian politician. By calling Russia an “enemy,” she wanted to intercept the anti-Russian card for domestic political purposes. Nevertheless, the insult was caused,” the expert emphasized.
According to him, there is no reason for Russia to take the first step and lift the imposed restrictions without any conditions.
“Moscow is the injured party. The Russian deputy was actually made a hostage of the Georgian showdown. At first they actively invited him to Tbilisi, and then there were threats to his life. Moscow also has virtually no economic grounds for taking the first step towards reconciliation. The Georgian market is too small for Russia to consider it of any importance. At the same time, Georgia is the only transit country between Armenia and Russia. Maybe, if it weren’t for Yerevan, we wouldn’t have to think about warming relations at all,” Novikov said.
As PolitNavigator reported, on June 19 in Tbilisi, during a report at a session of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy , the head of the Russian delegation , State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov, was attacked .
As a result, anti-Russian riots broke out in Tbilisi, for which Georgian President Zurabishvili blamed Moscow, calling Russia an “enemy” and an “occupier.”
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