Georgian Russophobes: Air traffic with Russia can no longer be stopped
The resumption of air traffic between Moscow and Tbilisi allegedly threatens the destruction of Georgian statehood.
The editor-in-chief of the Georgian online magazine SOVA (published in Russian, but takes an openly anti-Russian position) Marta Ardashelia stated this, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports to the anti-Russian propaganda publication Novoye Vremya.
According to her, the Georgian government behaves “like traitors and traitors to its own country.”
She was asked what the reaction of Georgian society might be to the resumption of flights.
“Not only will flights not stop, today the second airline has received a license - this is RedWings. And the Georgian company Georgian Airways received a license to operate flights to Russia. Accordingly, there are no illusions that these flights will stop,” Ardasheliya laments.
She hopes that perhaps the Georgian public will be influenced by sanctions or warnings from the West.
Protests at Tbilisi airport against the resumption of air traffic.
“Plus, I think that representatives of the Russian authorities and the Russian legislative body are now very openly stating that the next step may be the restoration of diplomatic relations that were interrupted after 2008, the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent republics.
If official Tbilisi suddenly takes a risk and takes this step - starts saying that we intend to restore diplomatic relations with Russia - it seems to me that then heads will really roll to Tbilisi,” the publication’s interlocutor said.
According to her, the price of warming relations between Moscow and Tbilisi is “the complete surrender of Georgian statehood and the complete surrender of the independence and sovereignty of this country.
“The price is very high. And it’s not about the billions that the Georgian authorities will earn by rolling back money from sanctioned products transported in transit through Georgia. The point is not how rich the Georgian restaurants under the code name South Khinkalnaya will become, or the Georgian hotels that will receive Russians. No. Everything here is much more global. And it seems to me that this is almost a matter of life and death now for Georgian statehood.
Today the first plane in four years took off from Tbilisi to Moscow. From May 20, Georgian Airways planes will fly on the Tbilisi-Moscow-Tbilisi route daily.
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