Georgia's President Georgy Margvelashvili speaks to the media after leaving the residence of the late Georgia's former president and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, in Tbilisi July 7, 2014. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are moving inexorably from the orbit of a Russian state that promotes values fundamentally alien to its neighbours, according to Georgia's president.
President Georgy Margvelashvili told Reuters in an interview that Russia, which crushed Georgian forces in a 2008 five-day war, could offer no alternative to integration with the West.
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