Georgia lurks: 300 million dollars for Russophobia seemed a little

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It seems that in Tbilisi, where until recently it was bitterly complaining about the much more expected economic damage from the loss of Russian tourists by the country, they still misunderstood something.

Extremist statements about the possible visit of Georgia by the Russian Foreign Minister have already marked one of the leaders of the party “European Georgia” Gigi Ugulava. This figure, as an institution, insists that the leg of Sergey Lavrov, who visited “without agreement with Tbilisi” Sukhum and Tskhinval, can in no way touch the Georgian land. Everyone who misses the Russian diplomat, who is a “violator of the law“ On Occupation ”, will become criminals themselves and will answer to the fullest extent! Recall - a possible punishment for those who break this, to put it mildly, peculiar legislative act can be not only a large fine, but even imprisonment for up to two years. Representatives of another Georgian party, whose "political platform" is absolutely clear from its name - from the "Unified National Platform", make similar provocative demarches.



On this occasion, I would like to note that one attempt to "put the Russians in their place" on a completely absurd and far-fetched occasion made by local "hot guys" trying to put together a political capitalist and make PR for outright Russophobia already cost Tbilisi extremely expensive. Anti-Russian covens, which only an absolutely blind and deaf person who shocked Tbilisi last June could take for “peaceful rallies” by the decree of the Russian president banning direct passenger flights with Georgia. Thus, a fat cross was put on the flow of domestic tourists to this country. For what, as they say, they fought, and ran into it.

Initially, official Tbilisi tried to invigorate, ranting at all angles that nothing terrible had actually happened. Just think, there are some vacationers from Russia there! Yes, we will do well without them! At the same time, usually, as the “incontrovertible arguments”, the calculations of some Western rating agencies, or even NGOs, were cited, assuring the Georgians that if they lost their compatriots in anti-Russian rudeness, then they were mere pennies. The reality turned out to be far from so rosy: in early autumn, Mariam Kvrivishvili, head of the Georgian National Tourism Administration, estimated the financial losses suffered by the country in July and August 2019 at 113 million dollars. Further more. The direct damage from lost profits was superimposed on inflation that broke the chain and all its attendant “charms” in the form of rising prices and the negative processes in the economy caused by them. The country's national monetary unit, the lari, once again threatenedly "staggered" ... In the end, as the head of the National Bank of the country, Koba Gvenetadze, was forced to admit, speaking to Georgian parliamentarians, the June “leaps”, rudeness of TV presenters and similar tricks cost treasury of at least $ 300 million.

Apparently, some Georgian politicians calling to meet with Sergei Lavrov as the next “mass protest rally against the Russian occupation” consider their country to be very rich. Well, if they are ready to ensure that its economy does not receive such amounts ... Moreover, they try to guess exactly by the beginning of the tourist season, which Georgia will not see at all this year if their ideas are put into practice. Well then, the master is the master. True, the more sane representatives of Tbilisi, such as the vice speaker of the parliament there, Grigory Volsky, are already trying to avoid the impending problems. They remind the "hot minds" that during the summit the capital of Georgia will symbolically fulfill the role of the "capital of the Council of Europe" and, accordingly, the street political demarches arranged at this time can go sideways with it not only in relations with Moscow.

Well, we’ll see that this time Georgia will prevail: common sense, backed up by elementary arithmetic, or still the desire for another cheap PR on Russophobian slogans.
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  1. +13
    15 January 2020 11: 44
    Why should the Russian leadership in general contact Georgia? Let them live in their own way.
    But most importantly, the Georgian leadership still does not decide anything as the Western Regional Committee will say so and they will
    1. -17
      15 January 2020 11: 53
      Why should the Russian leadership in general contact Georgia?

      Why should the Russian leadership even contact the leadership of Abkhazia? Let them live in their own way. In general, all this is sad, normal people, and politicians stir up the water.
      1. +9
        15 January 2020 12: 09
        without Russia, Abkhazia will bend in half a year and be captured by Georgia
        1. -4
          15 January 2020 12: 14
          without Russia Abkhazia will bend
          What is not unbent will never be bent.
          1. +1
            15 January 2020 12: 26
            she will die without Russia
            1. -1
              15 January 2020 12: 31
              she will die without Russia
              As long as there is NATO, this tribal piece of territory will not return to Georgia, do not worry.
              1. +1
                15 January 2020 12: 47
                I'm not worried
        2. +2
          15 January 2020 14: 09
          Yes, but she is with Russia. So it will not bend.
      2. -17
        15 January 2020 12: 15
        My wife went on a tour to Georgia this year. He gave this article to read to her, she read it, shrugged her shoulders and said that there were many Russian tourists in Georgia, she did not notice any Russophobia anywhere, in general, she had a very benevolent attitude. And besides, Georgia has changed a lot and is developing rapidly especially the IT sector, full of offices of foreign IT companies. And he says that in Georgia there are a lot of young people from Russia who work in these companies. And yet, the guide said that the Russians began to massively buy housing in Georgia. So, well, you understand ..... request
        1. +7
          15 January 2020 12: 20
          no Russophobia anywhere, in general, did not notice
          Paliktikans bastards, how much I communicated with ordinary Georgians even after 08.08.08, if you are normal with them, then they normally treat you. But this is temporary, propaganda will do its job, a matter of time. Crime on the verge of genocide of Russians and other nationalities in Georgia is more than real.
          1. +1
            17 January 2020 17: 50
            Quote: KBaHT_BpeMeHu
            But this is temporary, propaganda will do its job, a matter of time.

            Tell me, is "Georgia for Georgians" propaganda or a real pre-election slogan of Gamsakhurdia?
            Quote: KBaHT_BpeMeHu
            Crime on the verge of genocide of Russians and other nationalities in Georgia is more than real.

            oh how! and there are many Russians left after 90? Looks like you were a little late with your threats. everyone has already been slaughtered, of course the most normal Georgians.
        2. +13
          15 January 2020 12: 48
          My wife went on a tour to Georgia ...

          Your wife just took her money to Georgia. Why should she have been hostile?
          A tourist for any country is a wallet with legs. He is always welcome. And the poorer the country, the more happy the wallet with legs. And Georgia is a very poor country.
          1. +4
            15 January 2020 13: 01
            A tourist for any country is a wallet with legs. He is always welcome.
            Not always, for example, in Abkhazia only money is welcome, not tourists.
          2. +2
            15 January 2020 13: 39
            Until the opportunity to quietly steal the wallet. Then begins.
        3. 0
          15 January 2020 13: 37
          Oh really. A lot of untruth.
        4. -1
          15 January 2020 14: 51
          Quote: Snail N9
          My wife went on a tour to Georgia this year. He gave this article to read to her, she read it, shrugged her shoulders and said that there were many Russian tourists in Georgia, she did not notice any Russophobia anywhere, in general, she had a very benevolent attitude. And besides, Georgia has changed a lot and is developing rapidly especially the IT sector, full of offices of foreign IT companies. And he says that in Georgia there are a lot of young people from Russia who work in these companies. And yet, the guide said that the Russians began to massively buy housing in Georgia. So, well, you understand ..... request

          Snail # 9 is such a storyteller, bgg.
        5. +2
          15 January 2020 15: 03
          And you, as I understand it, didn’t go with her? laughing
        6. +5
          15 January 2020 15: 16
          Snail No. 9 If Georgia has changed, then only for the worse. A relative of the wife living in Poland recently went to Georgia on vacation and was unpleasantly affected by the total poverty of the population, the poor quality of service at the hotel and the great neglect of Tbilisi and the country as a whole. The cousin is Polish by nationality and judges everything that happens in the world mainly by what the Polish press writes. She is not a rich woman, so she fell for stories about how everything is good in Georgia, and most importantly cheap. Now bitterly jelly about the lost money. By the way, she drew attention to the fact that in Georgia there are a lot of goods from Russia ...
          1. +1
            15 January 2020 15: 48
            This will understand who he was in Poland. I haven’t been in Georgia, but I don’t guess that Poland is not there (infrastructure, economy)))
      3. +16
        15 January 2020 12: 45
        In general, all this is sad, normal people, and politicians stir up the water.

        "Normal" people come out to thousands of actions in Tbilisi with an anti-Russian agenda.
        Have you ever seen this in Moscow? In the Russian parliament called for killing Georgians? So where are the people normal, and where not really?
  2. +2
    15 January 2020 11: 45
    Well, we’ll see that this time Georgia will prevail: common sense, backed up by elementary arithmetic, or still the desire for another cheap PR on Russophobian slogans.

    Does it really bother us? The higher our reaction, the more actively Georgian Russophobes will act - after all, this is their earnings!
  3. +3
    15 January 2020 11: 50
    They have a rake, let them jump and jump on them.
    Cross out and forget, like so many others.
    There will be several "empty" zones near our borders, for amateurs, for stalkers. That's all!
  4. +1
    15 January 2020 11: 54
    The trouble is that the people (tourism) are fed by Russia, and the elite are "Yankes" ...
    1. +4
      15 January 2020 12: 11
      Quote: knn54
      The trouble is that the people (tourism) are fed by Russia, and the elite are "Yankes" ...

      Write in Russian! Whose trouble is yours, ours, of Russia?
      Flies from cutlets need to be separated!
      Whose people? Georgian, let’s let Georgia take care of him.
      Is the elite jumping in the square? Drink some water from the fridge. feel
  5. +8
    15 January 2020 11: 55
    The quality of Georgian wine, something that has long been checked.
    1. +15
      15 January 2020 12: 28
      Quote: Strashila
      The quality of Georgian wine, something that has long been checked.

      On my part, a complete ignorance of goods from rodents. Let them drink their own "urine and feces"!
    2. +1
      15 January 2020 14: 54
      They have shit, not wine.
      1. 0
        15 January 2020 15: 33
        What is being prepared for themselves, and not for tourists, is not bad. Yes Not for advertising, but for the sake of truth smile
  6. +7
    15 January 2020 11: 56
    I used to drink Georgian wine with pleasure, my taste, but I have some kind of civic position, so I sent it after the sprats long ago, finding out that both Taman and Crimea can pick up a noble drink to my taste, and Georgia will mature sooner or later, Well, we don’t have another globe ... if only we here, in Russia, survived the twenties - then we ourselves will reach for our older elder brother
    1. +8
      15 January 2020 12: 04
      Yes, stop talking about Georgian wine. He is not here!!! A thousand times, the numbers proved that Georgia produces 3-5 times less than it exports. You drank a barmatuha and continue, assuring yourself that it is Georgian.
      1. +4
        15 January 2020 12: 12
        I say well: it was a long time before the attack on our peacekeepers, in half, that they are now pouring there, and the mumble is felt if you like wine .... by the way, recently a friend brought an Abkhazian swill from the store .. your mother, this is necessary forbid ...
    2. +5
      15 January 2020 12: 30
      Quote: vanavate
      then they themselves will reach for the old older brother

      Again in the parasites?
      1. 0
        15 January 2020 12: 45
        why so? Russia has sane, business relations with many countries of the planet, we don’t feed, for example, Israel, or Kazakhstan, we communicate, trade, argue when necessary ... pragmatism needs to be built, not communism from Africa to the Arctic, glory to realism
        1. +2
          15 January 2020 14: 00
          Quote: vanavate
          why so? Russia has sane, business relations with many countries of the planet, we don’t feed, for example, Israel, or Kazakhstan, we communicate, trade, argue when necessary ... pragmatism needs to be built, not communism from Africa to the Arctic, glory to realism

          I see no practical benefit. All the enterprises that the Union built for them, they destroyed with curses. "For Christ's sake" we buy from them water and wine, so we have our own. For our money, we are increasing our problem. It's time to see us the "rake" and not step on them.
  7. +3
    15 January 2020 12: 01
    "... Whoever wants to punish, it deprives of reason ..."
  8. +1
    15 January 2020 12: 55
    Georgians should watch the film "Soldier's Father" more often.
    1. -1
      15 January 2020 13: 21
      Quote: Aliken
      Georgians should watch the film "Soldier's Father" more often.

      And what are they watching? "Thieves in law"? winked
  9. -1
    15 January 2020 13: 15
    Everything is exactly according to Marx.
    It seems that in Tbilisi, where until recently it was bitterly complaining about the much more expected economic damage from the loss of Russian tourists by the country, they still misunderstood something.

    Nationalization of losses and privatization of profits.


    Well, we’ll see that this time Georgia will prevail: common sense, backed up by elementary arithmetic, or still the desire for another cheap PR on Russophobian slogans.

    Apparently PR is not so cheap. I mean well paid by someone. By whom? This question is usually rhetorical.
  10. +3
    15 January 2020 13: 18
    As long as the Georgian mafia (in general, the diaspora) in Moscow does not open their heads, no intelligible dialogue with this country will take place. They take our blood (it’s ridiculous how they pull out the words, drain them out) and send them in jars to themselves for the Caucasus. Not the Americans feed them, but we.
    1. 0
      15 January 2020 13: 44
      And this is a very serious awl. Highly. It’s good if the supervised one is in doubt.
      1. +1
        15 January 2020 13: 49
        Of course "supervised". They are milked, they are gundi, but they do not flee to their homeland (for many, left several generations ago).
  11. +2
    15 January 2020 14: 55
    It is necessary to introduce sanctions for the supply to the Russian Federation of any goods from Georgia, even if they drown in their fault, we have our own, no worse ...
  12. +3
    15 January 2020 14: 57
    Quote: Nitochkin
    "My wife"

    "My Israeli wife" - Snail # 9 (C) laughing
  13. +1
    15 January 2020 15: 06
    While Georgia has not yet fully come to terms with the idea that its "prison of peoples" has collapsed ... and a long time ago ..
  14. +1
    15 January 2020 16: 38
    And who will tell you what genatsvale he dragged his mineral water from Georgia and now he is advertising on TV, Selling bastards, the Russian people will insult the Russian Georges and the bastards will bend a penny.
  15. +3
    15 January 2020 19: 35
    In Georgia, like VNA Ukraine, mattresses brought to power anti-Russians .. Hence, legs grow ...
    Not people make politics .. but politicians or politicians. And there are enough fools for the crowd in any country

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