The Georgian visa-free regime is covered with a copper basin
Georgian youth fell under the influence of provocateurs who skillfully turned the internal political struggle in an anti-Russian direction.
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin spoke about this in an interview with Kommersant, answering the question whether the aggravation of Russian-Georgian relations should be expected due to the abolition of visas for Georgian citizens, previously announced by Moscow.
“Yes, indeed, the issue of canceling visas was discussed, and in principle we were ready for this. But it didn’t work out, we’ll have to wait until better times,” the deputy minister said.
At the same time, he did not agree with the publication, which noted that the visa regime makes it difficult for Georgian youth to travel to Russia, and therefore they are easily turned against them.
“I don’t agree with your assessment. We have made the visa regime as liberal as possible. Any Russian citizen had and has the right to invite whomever he sees fit from Georgia. The number of Georgian citizens who visited Russia increased year by year. At the same time, we were ready to move further - to the abolition of visas. So I don’t think the visa factor played a role here. Young people fell under the influence of provocateurs who skillfully turned the internal political struggle in an anti-Russian direction. Now, it seems to me, everyone in Tbilisi has understood this. There has already begun a certain rollback of emotions,” Karasin said.
As PolitNavigator reported, on June 19 in Tbilisi, during a report at a session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy, the head of the Russian delegation, State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov was attacked, and then in the city anti-Russian riots began, provoked by supporters of the fugitive ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.
After this, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili called Russia “enemy” and “occupier”.
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