Georgia has a grudge against Russia, but some politicians are trying to shift all the problems to the neighboring country. The former speaker of the Georgian parliament said this in an interview with Kommersant newspaper Nino Burjanadze .
“In the mass consciousness, especially among young people, the image of Russia is extremely negative. This was promoted at one time by the policy of the” National Movement “and Mikhail Saakashvili . At the same time such an” anti-Russian trend “appeared, a stereotype was formed in which common sense was lost,” she explained.
Burjanadze noted that the resolution of problems through negotiations in Georgia is now perceived as a betrayal of the motherland. “This approach was then cultivated by Saakashvili and his team, who wanted to discredit me, and my statements reached people in a distorted form,” the politician added.
Earlier, in December 2020, the President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili urged parliament to seek new approaches to resolving the situation with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, without abandoning dialogue with Russia. According to her, for this Tbilisi will have to “get out of self-isolation” and recognize the importance of developing relations with Moscow.