MOSCOW, January 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia is open to close relations with Georgia, but only if its leaders in Tbilisi accept realities which have developed between the two neighbor states since 2008, Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“The basic and principal problem is that we (Russia) cannot change realities which shaped up after (former Georgian President) Mikhail Saakashvili unleashed war,” Sergei Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow.
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