OREANDA-NEWS. November 05, 2009. Georgian authorities do not stop their provocative acts against Russian citizens visiting Georgia. The person “in the crosshairs” this time around was Yanosh Mikhailovich Kenkadze, a Krasnodar Territory resident. He arrived in Georgia to meet with his mother.

Already when entering the country in late September he felt the increased attention to himself – a border officer carefully jotted down his address and contact telephone numbers in Georgia. On October 26 to the place where he lived came two men who identified themselves as “members of the security services” but failed to produce any identity cards or other documents. They took away Kenkadze’s Russian foreign passport without explaining why and told him that to have it back he was to “show up for a conversation by calling the given phone number in advance.”

Knowing about the dirty practices of Georgian secret services, Kenkadze took decision not to make any contacts being imposed on him, but to turn to the Russian Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi for help and protection. Our consular staff urgently issued him a return certificate instead of the taken away passport, escorted him to the border with Armenia, and saw that he crossed it unhindered. Meanwhile the Swiss side was, of course, duly informed of the situation.

There is no doubt that in this case the Georgian security services once again attempted to carry out their worked-out scheme, of which Vladimir Vissarionovich Vakhaniya and Paul Giviyevich Bliadze have already become victims: taking away a passport, “inviting for a conversation” during which they offer a Russian national “cooperation,” and “find” a gun or narcotics in the possession of the recalcitrant ones and put them in jail.

This systematized lawlessness has a definite purpose. They actually do not hide it: as the Georgian foreign minister put it recently with startling candor, “Georgia should forget about Russia.” And for that, according to the logic of the current rulers in Tbilisi, it is not enough to sever diplomatic relations. It is necessary to cut human, kinship and family ties that for centuries have cemented Russian-Georgian good neighborliness. That is why now all ethnic Georgians who have come from Russia to Georgia to visit relatives or to bow before the graves of ancestors run a very real risk of finding themselves behind bars. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a greater mockery of the values which, by the way, have always been particularly sacred to Georgian society.