POLITICAL SCIENTIST: THERE WILL BE NO WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.10.2006 17:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A ‘spy war’ is over by the Russian-Georgian
problems remained, said political scientist, rector of the
Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan in an interview with
PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, permanent crisis between the two states
tends to increase. "Russia has no methods of influence of the Georgian
side any more.

What other economic sanctions can be applied? Russia can block the gas
delivery. But gas in Georgia is mostly consumed by Russian companies
engaged in electricity processing. Russia can close some secondary
ports in the Black Sea. And nothing else will remain. Anyway, there
will be no war," the CMI Director said.

He also underscored that Georgian wine and mineral water is already
being supplied to the Russian market with other labels via third
states. "The same is happening with transfers. Suppose that a Georgian
gastarbeiter will lose some 0.5% transferring money from Russia but he
will transfer this money by any means even via Australia. Sanctions
like the Russian ones do not work in the modern world. There is no
Moscow-Tbilisi train but there are Moscow-Baku and Baku-Tbilisi
routes. Thus, Russia seems to have beaten itself," the Armenian
political scientist said.