Giorgi Margvelashvili offers Vladimir Putin to meet. Just a few months before his presidential term expires and on the fifth year of his presidency, Giorgi Margvelashvili voices the initiative for the first time.

the President names public survey results as the main argument of the unexpected announcement, according to which a large proportion of the population of Georgia supports the settlement of relations with Russia.

The president"s statement was evaluated in the parliamentary opposition today. Davit Bakradze, one of the leaders of "European Georgia", said that rational policy against Russia in the current reality is pressure onby means of international mechanisms and levers.

"We should not wait for Vladimir Putin"s transformation and his attempts to establish normal relations with his neighbours. But our path to normalization of relations with Russia goes through the maximum involvement of our foreign partners, de-occupation, involvement in international sanctions against Russia, and unfortunately all these directions have weakened during the Georgian Dream coalition, "said David Bakradze.