All right, Alexander, let's talk about Georgia and the caucuses. We haven't talked about this region in a while.

There was a law that is being passed in Georgia, which basically mirrors the U.S. FARA Act. I mean, it's pretty much the

same thing as what the U.S. has with the Foreign Agents Act. But in this instance, there's

been a lot of protests and a lot of EU flags are being waved in the

main squares of Georgia because they don't like this foreign agents act.

I imagine it's because when people look at the books of all the NGOs and the financial

statements, they're going to find a very uncomfortable

truth, which is that these NGOs are not really funded by Russia, but they're funded by the

collective West and funded a lot by the collective West. Anyway, what are your thoughts on

what's happening in Georgia? The first thing to say is that, I mean, Georgia, like all of these countries, like Ukraine,

like Armenia now, have been caught up in this tug of war between ultimately the Russians,

not that the Russians have really wanted to be involved in a tug of war with the West in these

countries, but a tug of war between the Russians and the West. In other words, these were all

countries that once formed part of the Soviet Union. They gained their independence in 1991,

their trade links, the geography, all of that point, that their history points to them needing to have good relations with Russia.

Georgia, by the way, has a very long history of close relations with Russia going way back into the 18th century.

And mostly, in fact, far and far and away the greatest part of that period,

relations between Russians and Georgians have been very good.

You go to Moscow today, you'll find lots

of Georgian restaurants, for example. There's a large Georgian diaspora in Russia. There's an awful

lot of interconnections between Russians and Georgians going all the way back, as I said, to the 18th century.

And Georgia, by the way, just to add, it's an Orthodox Christian country, like Russia is

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