Russian-Georgian negotiations are exhausted, Georgian political analysts say

Another delay of the meeting of Zurab Abashidze with Grigory Karasin indicates that Russian-Georgian talks are in the deadlock, while possible changes in the topics of the talks may be associated with the crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations and the situation in the Crimea, Georgian political scientists believe.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the last meeting of Karasin with Abashidze was held in November 2013; while the next round of talks in Prague was scheduled for March 4-5, but was moved to March 14, and then delayed again.

On March 21, in a telephone conversation, Zurab Abashidze, the Representative of Georgia's Prime Minister at talks with Russia, and Grigory Karasin, a Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, agreed to postpone the meeting and negotiations to some later date.

In the opinion of the political scientist Nika Chitadze, the head of the NGO "Centre for Research on International Matters and Security", the parties have nothing more to discuss. "All the issues related to the sphere of trade and economic relations of the two countries have already been discussed, while there's no chance to talk on political issues today," he said.

Irakli Tskvitishvili, a member of the "Club of Experts", believes that Russia is now more concerned about the problem of Ukraine, so, it has no time to pay attention to Georgia.

According to Djondi Bagaturiya, the leader of the party named "Georgian Group", Russia will categorically demand from Georgia to stop its European integration.