Georgian Diaspora asked Putin to resume flights
Commissioners of the Georgian Diaspora in Russia appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to restore air service between the countries.
Commissioners of the Georgian Diaspora in Russia appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to restore air service between the countries.
in the open letter indicates that certain forces interested in destabilizing the situation in Georgia and the deterioration of relations with Russia.
"Diaspora anxiously peeping over mutual accusations, after all the experience of the last 25 years has demonstrated that the most severe consequences of taking on their own shoulders the common people, and not politics. Fears this time were unfounded: Russia has responded to the provocation in Tbilisi by the ban on air travel to Georgia ", - said in the letter.
The authors of the letter also consider the termination of air communication of " severe punishment ".
in Tbilisi on 20 June was launched by anti-government and anti-Russian demonstrations of disagreement. Protesters opposed the participation of Russian delegates in the session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy.
Their outrage was the fact that the leader of the Assembly, the Deputy of the state Duma Sergey Gavrilov sat in the chair of speaker of the Georgian Parliament. He, for his part, explained that at this place they put him receiving side, " according to the Protocol of such events ".
then the Plenipotentiaries of the Georgian opposition left a meeting in Parliament house burst radicals.
The protesters demanded that the Russian delegation left the country, and the government of Georgia has resigned. To quell the unrest, the riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons. According to the final data, damaged about 240 people, more than 300 were captured.
the leader of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili accused Moscow of organising the protests. She also called the Russian Federation " the occupier and the enemy." Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. have found a similar message unprofessional. According to the head of the government, the situation in Georgia is the result of the struggle of the opposition with Pro-government forces.
Vladimir Putin on June 21 signed a decree prohibiting Russian airlines to perform passenger travel to Georgia from 8 July. On the following day, the Ministry of transport has banned Georgian carriers flying in Russian Federation. As said press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, Moscow will cancel the ban After the normalization of relations.
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