Yuri Mechitov, the former Deputy Minister of Culture makes a new scandalous and pro-Russian statement after the statements made regarding April 9, 1989. He goes further with his pro-Russian rhetoric and accuses Georgia.

Mechitov speaks about the war in Abkhazia during the telephone interview with "Courier" and says that the Russian state did not confront Georgia.

"During the war in Abkhazia, the Soviet Union was ruined and Russia was still destroyed and miserable and nobody knew who was fighting with whom. You would be supported by whoever you hired. So if we would hire Russians, They would be on our side, "said Mechitov.