Georgia: Store in Tbilisi refuses to serve Russian citizens over Ukraine situation

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SOUNDBITES:

SOT, Store owner (Russian): “The sign clearly says: the Russian citizens. There is no ethnic chauvinism there. It doesn’t just say all Russians [are not allowed]. Russians also live in Ukraine. There is a war going on for these Russians, since Putin wanted to provide them with security there. It’s not about the Russians. Although I still think that wherever they live, they have their own imperialist thinking, which is very bad.”

SOT, Local resident (Russian): “They shouldn’t have written [such an inscription], we are a multinational country. They shouldn’t have written about it at all. This topic shouldn’t be touched here in Georgia at all, because we are a multinational country. I’m closing down this topic.”

SOT, Former Moscow resident (Russian): “I’m from Moscow, my wife is Ukrainian. We face difficulties renting an apartment here because we are Russians. I fully understand this restriction, this is the requirement of the Georgians. Оn the other hand, when I’m asked to prove whether I support Putin or not, I always say that those people who left Russia clearly don’t support him. Because those who support [Putin], they stayed.”

SOT Beka, local resident (Georgian): “I am against this inscription. This is nonsense. I mean, we know that Russia is not the Kremlin itself.”

SOT Beka, local resident (Georgian): “The Kremlin is one thing, and the Russians are another. This is our neighbouring country, we have friends there. I myself have many friends from Russia. I think refusing them access into the country looks like discrimination.” *LOOSE TRANSLATION*

SOT, Yuliana, Ukrainian (Russian): “I am Ukrainian, all my relatives are in the Kharkov region. My position is that it’s wrong because the fight is between the people in power only. In fact, ordinary people have nothing to do with it at all.”

SOT Local resident (Georgian): “As for the store - no [I don’t support the inscription]. But also I don’t support such a flow of people from Russia [to Georgia], because there is no war conflict there. And more than half of them, a lot of Russian citizens excuse Putin.” *LOOSE TRANSLATION*

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