'What does Moscow want?' asks Georgian president

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.