Behind the “anti-Russian mood” lies the “hand USA” and this is the reason for the demonstrations that have been going on for many days in Agriculturea country in the Caucasus neighboring it Russiathe Kremlin said today, without presenting, however, evidence of its claims.

According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Moscow is following the events unfolding in Georgia “with acute concern.”

Peskov’s comments come after the Georgian parliament withdrew a controversial “foreign agents” bill that sparked mass protests in the Caucasian country, a law Russia has used to crack down on dissidents for the past decade.

Peskov reiterated that Moscow had nothing to do with the situation in Georgia, adding that it “does not interfere in the internal affairs of Georgia,” but stressed that Georgian President Salome Zurabivili’s visit to the United States this week was significant.

“He did not address Georgians from Georgia. He addressed them from America. And someone’s visible hand is trying to add anti-Russian sentiments here again, ”he added.

“Yes, this is full of provocations, we are watching this very carefully and with great concern,” he concluded.

Beijing spoke of the “invisible hand”.

The choice of words used by Peskov echoes his phraseology from a previous press briefing during the week.

After the Chinese foreign minister said that an “invisible hand” was prolonging the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesman said that the “hand” he spoke of clearly belonged to Washington.

Russia accuses the US of encouraging revolutions in neighboring countries it considers within its sphere of influence.

He sought to justify the invasion of Ukraine as a necessary step to defend against Western aggression, which Kyiv and the West reject as justification for a large-scale aggressive war.

Faced with a huge wave of protests with pro-European slogans and against a Russian-style authoritarian backlash, the government initially wanted to crack down on the demonstrations before finally announcing the withdrawal of the bill yesterday, which was effectively withdrawn by parliament today.

In addition to this law, many Georgians worry that their government will abandon its pro-European ambitions and fear a rapprochement with Russia.

The small Caucasian country of nearly four million people is still suffering from a brief war it lost against Russia in 2008.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters, AFP.}