On Friday, Russia claimed to have captured a Georgian spy of Russian citizenship, whose main goal was to destabilize the region in Southern Russia. This represents the proof that the Georgian secret services are involved in “disruptive terrorist activities” in North Caucasus, as Federal Security Service (FSB) informed.

It is also considered that the Georgian spy, identified as Ramzan Turkoshvili, 34, received rewards in American dollars from the Georgian secret services in order to establish a liaison between Georgian intelligence and “active members of illegal armed groups on Russian territory”. As the FSB further sustained, the scope of this action was to “organize armed resistance” and to guarantee the rebels free movement.

The Georgian ministry denied any accusations brought against it regarding these issues, by considering them as a “policy of provocation” aimed against Georgia. It mostly believes this situation to be an obstacle in Georgia’s way to achieve membership of the NATO military alliance, as it was promised to Georgia after a NATO summit held in Bucharest a month ago. Moreover, Georgia pursues to retake control on two separatist Georgian regions that receive Russian support: Abkhazia and South Ossetia.