Zakharova Says EU Membership Would Add Georgia to Russia’s List of ‘Unfriendly’ Countries - Civil Georgia

Zakharova Says EU Membership Would Add Georgia to Russia’s List of ‘Unfriendly’ Countries - Civil Georgia

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that if Georgia were to join the European Union, Russia “would have” to include it on the list of countries with “unfriendly regimes” and extend to it “retaliatory economic measures.” She made the comment during an April 16 press conference in response to a question about how EU membership would affect Russia-Georgia relations. “I am not saying that we want to do this, but given the new …