The official representative of the Russian diplomacy criticized the Georgian and Western media on the background of the 11th anniversary of the August 2008 events
Russian border guards do not conduct any work on the border between South Ossetia and Georgia. This was stated on Friday by the director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, during a briefing at the site of the Territory of Meanings All-Russian Youth Educational Forum.
"Russian border guards are in the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia in accordance with a bilateral agreement on joint efforts to protect the state border of April 30, 2009, and they are not carrying out any work on the border between the two countries," she said. and are called upon to ensure the creation of conditions for a safe and conflict-free population of the two neighboring states. "
“Such steps will first of all make it possible to nullify so far quite numerous incidents related to unintentional border violations,” the diplomat continued. “We proceed from the fact that there are no people who found themselves on the opposite sides of the state border, following the events of August 2008, are not guilty and have the right to rely on the conditions of their life to be understandable and predictable. The designation of the border on the ground is precisely aimed at this. "
The official representative of the Russian diplomacy criticized the attempts made by the Georgian and Western media, as well as politicians, to "once again play the so-called Borderization card" against the backdrop of the 11th anniversary of the August 2008 events. “Artificial hype is again being created around the allegedly [occurring] violations on the border of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia,” Zakharova drew attention. “The myth is circulating that supposedly Russians and South Ossetians are moving the border and moving deeper into Georgian territory and that Russia supposedly continues its long-term "a military-diplomatic campaign to systematically dismember and seize the Georgian state."
