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Russia has supported separatist movements in Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the early 1990s. This is arguably the greatest problem in Georgian–Russian relations. The tensions between Georgia and Russia, which had been heightened even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, climaxed during the secessionist conflict in Abkhazia in 1992–93.
The outbreak of the new escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a significant development for Georgia.Being in the same region as both Russia and Ukraine, the war can be described as happening in the Georgia's immediate neighborhood, with Georgia sharing border with both belligerents: Georgia has a 900-kilometers long direct land border with Russia and a ...
Russia and Georgia have a complicated relationship. Since Russia won a five-day war against Georgia in 2008, the two countries have had no diplomatic relations.
The protests in Georgia have highlighted the country's complex, fraught relationship with its much larger neighbor to the north, Russia. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and it continues to occupy ...
See Georgia–Russia relations. On 29 August 2008, in the aftermath of the 2008 South Ossetia war, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze announced that Georgia had broken diplomatic relations with Russia. He also said that Russian diplomats must leave Georgia, and that no Georgian diplomat would remain in Russia, while only consular relations ...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Russia had anything to do with Georgia's distancing from Europe. Georgia is "moving rapidly along the Ukrainian path, into the dark abyss," which could end ...
In 2022, after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Georgia formally applied to join the EU. Support for EU membership was already high, but after the invasion, polls showed about 74% of ...
In April 2010, the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia appealed to legislative bodies of 31 countries, asking to declare Georgia's two regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia as territories under Russian occupation and to recognize that the massive displacement of civilians from those regions by Russia amounts to ethnic cleansing.