A bone across the throat — Zakharova assessed Georgia's policy

The West is unceremoniously interfering in Georgia's affairs because the independent policy of the authorities is perceived as a bone across the throat, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on July 15.

"Modern Georgia is a vivid example of unceremonious, and sometimes even unprecedented interference in the affairs of a state that has all the indicators of sovereignty," Zakharova said.

According to her assessment, "Tbilisi's desire to adhere to an independent, nationally oriented, that is, oriented towards its own people, policy is perceived by the collective West literally as a challenge, and if we speak in Russian, then as a bone across the throat."

"This annoys the representatives of the West so much that they are literally ready to use all the levers of influence, just to displace the objectionable current government only because it serves the interests of its people, because it thinks about its people, because it knows its people, its history and, based on this, builds the future, and not It serves those who have nothing to do with the people of Georgia, its history," Zakharova said.