MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Head of the Duma International Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachyov thinks that by adopting a resolution recognizing the genocide of the Cherkessian people in the Russian Empire in the 18 and 19th centuries, the Georgian parliament pursued opportunistic political goals.
"I regret that politicians in Georgia once again did give in to the temptation of realizing their own nationalistic complexes at the expense of other peoples," Kosachyov told Interfax on Friday.
He said there are no doubts that Georgian MPs were concerned "not about the truly tragic fate of the Cherkessian people, but pursued their own opportunist political objectives, trying to antagonize present-day Russia to the utmost and present it as the source of the trouble of Georgians as well as other peoples that used to populate the Russian Empire and later the USSR."
Kosachyov is convinced that this document of Georgian MPs is nothing but an attempt to strengthen the statehood of modern Georgia at Russia's expense.