MOSCOW. May 14 (Interfax) - The Kremlin views the ongoing events in Georgia surrounding the passage of a foreign agent bill through the parliament as Georgia's internal affair and is not planning to interfere, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"We have said repeatedly that this is absolutely an internal affair of Georgia, and we don't want to meddle there in any way. On the one hand, we see that the Georgian leadership is determined to safeguard the country from undisguised interference in its internal affairs, as the overwhelming majority of countries do. On the other hand, we see undisguised meddling in Georgia's internal affairs from the outside," Peskov told journalists in commenting on protests in Georgia as the parliament is voting on a bill on the transparency of foreign influence.
"We've even heard threats of applying sanctions to Georgia if they pass this legislation or other," Peskov said.
"What is it if not direct interference in Georgia's internal affairs?" he said.
Russia is confident that "this is an internal affair of that country, and we aren't meddling there in any way and are not going to meddle in the future," he said.