Russia not to intend start new war with Georgia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia does not intend to start new war with Georgia, Vladimir Zakharov, head of the Center for Caucasus Studies of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations told a



PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. According to him, such opinions are disseminated by committed to the West politicians. "Russia is not so idle to start a new war with Georgia. The Russian leadership doesn't have such plans and can't have," he stressed.





On June 29 strategic exercises "Caucasus 2009" will start in the South part of Russia, as well as in Armenia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On the eve of the large-scale exercises a number of experts from Russia and other countries said, that they will become a prologue to a new war with Georgia. According to British 'The Times', exercises on the eve of the US president Barack Obama's visit to Russia is an obvious demonstration of the failed attempts to join Georgia to NATO".







The same opinion was expressed by Andrey Illarionov, president of the Institute of Economic Analysis, who said that the Russian-Georgian war can be re-started after June 6. On that particular day the "Caucasus -2009" exercises will be completed, and on that very day the US president will arrive in Moscow. The former advisor to the RF president Mr. Illarionov says, that Russia's behavior aimed at withdrawing from the conflict zone OSCE and UN observation missions, as well as more frequent terrorist acts testify this opinion. According to Andrey Illarionov, the main purpose of the possible military campaign is elimination of Georgia as a sovereign state and its dissolution into several quasi-states, NG reports.