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Russia is guilty in high self-esteem Russophobes

Irina Alksnis

Russia is guilty in high self-esteem Russophobes

Several news from Georgia were barely noticed in Russia, where government members met with business representatives - mainly tourism and agriculture.

Environment Protection and Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili expressed hope, that Russia will not impose a trade embargo. The concern is understandable, Considering, that Rospotrebnadzor announced the strengthening of control over the incoming alcohol of Georgian production due to the deterioration of its quality. Last time - in the second half of the 2000s - it turned into a ban on supplies, lasting seven years.

In its turn, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Natia Turnava told, that Tbilisi does not intend to refuse economic cooperation with Russia, recalling, that the share of Russian exports in the national economy is 13 percent. Pragmatic economic relations with Moscow will benefit the republic, He considers it.

A little over two weeks have passed since the start of the scandal., and it is impossible not to notice the difference in the impact of what happened on the life of both states.

For Russia, the incident has long gone to the periphery of public and media interest., and the information and political agenda has been almost completely updated. Restoration of the powers of the delegation to PACE, death of heroes-submariners in the Barents Sea, flood in the Irkutsk region, Putin's meeting with the Pope, a nightmare story with a beaten girl in Ingushetia - this is what Russian society has been occupying in recent days. Almost no one remembers Georgia. Although we must pay tribute to the TV channel “rustavi 2”, who managed to remind Russia of Tbilisi with a shameful performance of his presenter.

For the Transcaucasian republic, what happened is still in the focus of political and public attention., which is quite natural: existing and further financial losses will have a painful effect for a long time. So it is no coincidence that the ministers there meet with local businesses and make speeches., in which the desire to somehow settle the situation is clearly expressed. true, exactly “somehow”, since the authorities are not ready to accept the condition for the resumption of the dialogue - to apologize - directly voiced by the Russian leadership.

However, like ten years ago, Russia has nowhere to hurry, and Moscow can afford to wait so long, how much is needed.

Old wisdom says: “If you spit in society, it will rub off; if society spits on you, you will drown”. obviously, that this proverb at times applies to world politics, in particular to Russia's relations with some of its neighbors, which has been demonstrated repeatedly in recent years.

More interesting is, that the lessons learned are not useful. The example of Tbilisi is especially indicative, since Georgia has already had a chance to try almost the entire spectrum of Russian foreign policy instruments.

The liquidation of the financial support system from Moscow after the collapse of the USSR turned the richest republic of the Union into a lightning-fast impoverished country. In the middle of the 2000s, it was the Georgians who were the first to experience the economic restrictions of Russia as a response to the Russophobic state policy.. Mikhail Saakashvili's attempt at 2008 year to compete with the Kremlin in the military sphere ended in what is known.

but, as it appears, no conclusions are drawn, and Moscow once again in passing, with minimal damage to yourself, punished Tbilisi, who now is not known how many years will rake the grave consequences of his own stupidity.

Tbilisi officialdom more than a quarter of a century after the collapse of the Soviet Union and more than ten years after that, how Russia stopped “wipe off”, cannot comprehend and accept the new realities of the geopolitical alignment in the post-Soviet space. Layout - if we speak as directly as possible - format “elephant and pug”, which only confirms the dirty swearing on the air of the national television against the Russian president.

It is usually customary to attribute everything to Russophobia fueled in post-Soviet countries and the habit of our neighbors to generosity., generosity and easygoingness of Russia. But it catches your eye, that Georgian politicians and some of their other post-Soviet colleagues really do not feel the difference in scale, where their republic has been living with a scandal with Moscow for three weeks, and she left it all behind a long time ago, because it has a fundamentally different density and scale of events.

The reason is, that they continue to feel that they are part of a common space with Russia, and the more anti-Russian position they take, the more it is expressed in them, simply because the whole coordinate system of their life and activity takes a large neighbor as a starting point.

A common past with Russia has provided all post-Soviet states with the experience of feeling like a superpower. The most interesting, that now it is not getting rid of, but actively turns into a myth, where exactly thanks to them the USSR (and sometimes even pre-revolutionary Russia) reached the corresponding state and geopolitical heights.

by the way, this approach does not create any obstacles to Russophobia. quite the contrary. This was most vividly formulated in Kiev, according to which the Ukrainians created a great state for the Russians, culture and language, and those - ungrateful slaves and barbarians - conquered and occupied Ukraine.

Almost all post-Soviet countries have their own versions of this myth., especially since the texture allows. The same Georgia has no shortage of names, left a noticeable mark in history, science and culture of Russia.

It is logical, that the flip side of such a political worldview becomes national-political conceit whole states, radically unresponsive to reality. This organically entails bilateral and international incidents with unpleasant consequences due to the, that they repeatedly underestimate Russian and overestimate their own capabilities.

Perhaps, post-Soviet Russophobes have a reason for one more point of claims against Russia: the historical absence of discrimination against minorities and their successes under the wing of Moscow have provided many inadequately high self-esteem and, Consequently, serious problems currently in the status of independent states.

there is a suspicion, that we have a real chance to wait for such an accusation against us.

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