March 10 () –
The Russian Presidency has warned this Friday that, coinciding with the wave of protests unleashed in Georgia by the controversial bill on foreign agents, there may be “provocations” over the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, considered independent by Moscow since the 2008 conflict.
“There is a risk of provocations,” stressed the main Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, in a statement to the media in which he once again pointed out that the Russian authorities have no relationship with the law that the government has tried to promote. Georgian and that has been definitively shelved by the mobilizations.
Peskov, in fact, sees a “hand” behind this whole crisis. “You cannot say that it is an invisible hand, it is visible,” he added, to immediately point directly at the United States and denounce that the Joe Biden Administration is trying to turn Georgia into a new “anti-Russian” scenario.
Moscow has acknowledged its “concern” about what is happening in the neighboring country, where the opposition promised on Thursday to continue with the protests despite the commitment of the ruling parties to reverse the process of the reform.
Georgia has historically been a sensitive front in political terms for Russia and both countries came to face each other in a brief conflict in 2008, with Abkhazia and South Ossetia as an excuse and battleground.
