Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze criticized Brussels' demands to join sanctions against Russia. He said these calls were inappropriate, given that the EU itself is a major importer of Russian products.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Bastrykin ordered to initiate a criminal case and investigate the incident with the "desecration" of the Russian flag at a concert in Georgia.
Earlier, a corresponding video from the Tbilisi Open Air festival was distributed on social networks. Singer Erekle Getsadze threw the Russian tricolor on the stage, then put it in a bag and pretended to relieve himself on it. Some spectators began to applaud him.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed indignation about this.
"When God did not give a man brains, other organs have to work - in this case, the very one that, apparently, most often comes to hand," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the incident.