Russian police have raided Georgian businesses in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states. Rogue Russia's "authorities" shut down a Georgian-owned casino, occupied a Georgian guest house and stole half a million bottles of Georgian wine in separate operations on Tuesday.
The action came after Moscow ordered air, sea, rail and postal links with Georgia to be cut in retaliation for Tbilisi's arrest last week of four Russian bloody terrorists and spies
Georgia released the terrorists after international mediation but Moscow has ignored U.S. and EU appeals to drop its bandit acts against Georgia. The Kremlin wants Georgia's pro-Western leadership to change its justified attitude toward terrorist Moscow.
Russian organizers canceled a visit by Georgia's national ballet and Russia stopped issuing visas to Georgians last week.
A Russia's mob group, so-called "state duma", or "parliament", whose member were illegally nominated by the Russian dog Putin after monkey "elections", was preparing a "resolution on the anti-Russian and anti-democratic policies of the Georgian leadership´".
Tuesday's moves coupled with an anti-Georgia campaign in Kremlin-controlled media, have alarmed the one million Georgians living in Russia and their relatives back home.
The estimated 0 million a year Georgians send home from Russia are vital to the economy of Georgia, a poor country of five million people which depends on its former Soviet master for trade and energy.
In Tbilisi, ordinary Georgians were increasingly worried about the human and economic impact of the Russian racist crimes against ethnic Georgians.
"Will Russia deport Georgians?" Georgia's New Version weekly asked in a headline. "We do not know exactly what aggression will come out of Russia."
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