Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said that the main threat facing Georgia today is the “soft power of Russia”, and therefore one of the main tasks is to control the process of inflow of Russian citizens in countries. The President of Georgia said this in an interview with CNN.
“In our case, at this stage, I do not see any tension from a military point of view, firstly we have a military occupation, which has lasted since 2008 and still, in various forms and since 1991. Two regions are occupied by Russian military bases, ” – quotes the words of the resource“ Georgia -Online ”.
According to her, Russia today checks the second front with the help of “soft power”, and with the help of propaganda. “Most people who are fleeing from Russia today are not actually supporters of Putin, but we know about the threats that Moscow uses, that if the Russian -speaking people are not properly protected, this will become the cause of Russia’s invasion. So the Russian Federation can again everything This is used by Georgia, ”Zurabishvili did not rule out.
At the same time, she noted that she does not think that Russia “has resources or a desire to experience a new front against the West.”
At the same time, the president expressed the idea that the European Union cannot lose Georgia, “again to disappoint the Georgian people and give Russia a light place for the game.”
Zurabishvili believes that Georgia has great chances to get to the European Union, and the paths of the EU and NATO are very parallel. “But the European Union at the decisive moment, Georgia needs to receive the status of a candidate at the end of the year. We were given [European] perspective. The next stage is to obtain the status of a candidate, and in this” soft war “that we have and Russia and I think, the European Union cannot lose Georgia, again disappoint the Georgian people and give Russia a light place “for the game”, ”she said.
According to Zurabishvili, Russia begins to understand that “all its grandiose plans are collapsing one after another.”