MOSCOW. Oct 30 (Interfax) - Moscow expects that its relations with Tbilisi will continue to normalize and respects the will of Georgian citizens, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
"While we cannot be indifferent to what happens near our borders, we don't meddle in all internal affairs of other countries, unlike Westerners, and we respect the expression of the Georgian people's sovereign will. We look forward to stable development of this South Caucasus republic and continued normalization of our bilateral relations," Zakharova said while commenting on the outcomes of the parliamentary elections in Georgia at a press briefing on Wednesday.
"The assessments that we made have proven fully justified, we were right," she said.
"Georgia and the Georgian people have decided to limit foreign influence on internal affairs of their own independent and sovereign country through adopting legislation on the transparency of foreign influence," Zakharova said.
"Washington and Brussels have been doing everything possible for months to influence the choice of Georgian voters, while doing that in an absolutely biased way, too," she said.
"Despite the colossal pressure, the Georgian people have made their choice. On October 26, the voters spoke in favor of stability, development, and values traditional for Georgia," she said.
"Georgia's closest neighbors in the region and a number of Western countries have already congratulated the ruling Georgian Dream party on a convincing victory, while such agenda-driven institutions as the OSCE/ODIHR [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights] have confirmed that the elections in Georgia were well-organized and held in a competitive environment, with high voter turnout," she said.
"The United States and the Baltic countries are acting contrary to their own institutions. They can't accept this outcome at all. They've given and are giving more and more ultimatums to the Georgian leadership and the Georgian political environment, they're threatening with continuing persecutions and sanctions if Tbilisi keeps following its current sovereign course, and are trying to call the legitimacy of the elections into question and provoke a new color revolution in Georgia," Zakharova said.