Positive change in Russian-Georgian relations in recent months – diplomats

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, Grigory Karasin, and the Georgian Prime Minister’s special envoy, Zurab Abashidze, pointed out some positive changes in Russian-Georgian relations in recent months, during their meeting in Prague.

Evidence of improving bilateral relations was a meeting between the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in January, as well as a meeting in Davos, Switzerland, of the two countries’ Prime Ministers, Dmitry Medvedev and Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Russian experts visited more than 40 wineries and mineral water production plants in Georgia earlier this week, to consider a resumption of Georgian wine and mineral water exports to Russia.