Given the close proximity to Georgia, I wonder if Georgians are nervous about this turn of events. At any rate I'm sure they are keeping a watchful eye on things.
Any of our Georgian posters out there? How about those folks currently traveling thru, what's the pulse?
I was in Rostov (about 8 hour train away from Donetsk) 3-4 days ago, and there was really no buzz. The news was playing at the hostel but no one seemed concerned. I was also in Volgograd, just left last night, and haven't really heard anything. The news seems to show a lot of protestors raising Russian flags, so maybe it's focused on showing how Russia is trying to support the pro-Russia side. I wish I spoke more Russian so I could understand it!
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I think that unless you have said you are visiting border areas thee will be no impact.........
I'm not Georgian, but as far as I know the current Georgian administration normalised relations with Russia and they're on relatively good terms. The events in Ukraine have nothing to do with Georgia and will have little(if any) effect there.
Other than Ukraine and Russia those who can be nervous are the countries who get most of their oil and natural gas from Russia via Ukraine: Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Serbia, Moldova, etc. I'm also wondering waht effect it'll have on the PMR and Moldova + Romania relations.
They did not really normalize relations, and certainly they are not on good terms. They improved relations, true, but Russia and Georgia still have no diplomatic relations and that will likely be the case for the foreseeable future.
For Georgians this is mostly a deja vu, given the parallels to what happened in South Ossetia six years ago. People are not nervous, its more like, well, no big surprises there, that how Russia is.
Well, we have been through similar experience few times, so it did not come as surprise.
Russia simply yet again showed how it deals with things that does not go the way it wants.
We also expect complications and provocations of all sorts as we are quite close to ratifying the agreement of pre-accession to EU.