The controversial visit of a Chechen businessman has sparked fresh anger as partially occupied Georgia struggles with a wave of Russian migrants.
that Akhmetkhanov's suspected visit has caused outrage but is just part of a much larger puzzle."Bloggers and journalists opposed to Putin have not been allowed in Georgia for the past few years," she said."However, Georgia's border is open to people close to the Kremlin."
In the chaos that followed World War I, control of the city changed hands from tsarist to revolutionary, then briefly to Turkish, independent Georgian and finally renewed Soviet control. After the Soviet Union's collapse and Georgian independence, the industrial port city underwent a real estate investment boom, emerging as a top luxury holiday destination.
The glut of new arrivals is stoking fresh tensions in a country with little love for Putin's Russia. The immigrants bring much-needed money to the national economy, but their higher average wealth is also driving up prices and squeezing housing options for locals. Such sentiment helped fire up May protests against the restarting of flights from Russia to Georgia and demonstrations that disrupted the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's daughter Yekaterina to a mountain resort wedding party east of Tbilisi.
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