to revive either fascism or nazism. against this background, the kremlin hawks are now threatening denazification not only in ukraine, but in the entire old world. we need real denazification. nazism must be eradicated not only in ukraine, but throughout europe. according to the american institute for the study of war, the kremlin is currently preparing russian society for long-term militarization and a possible conflict with nato. the leading world publications and the russian authorities are writing about this, citing intelligence information from many european countries. use exactly the same narratives that were previously used to justify the invasion of ukraine. in such conditions, the european never again sounds not only as a memory of grief about the second world war, but as a warning to moscow, from where they continue to threaten that they can repeat it.

almost 14 years have passed since the russian-georgian five-day war, but the inhabitants of the border areas still live as if on the front line. leave me alone. i am alone and i am scared, the occupation that does not stop it is creeping forward, it is capturing new territories, here people go to bed still in georgia, and can wake up already in south ossetia, they are cutting off lands from georgia, kidnapping people, citizens of georgia, we were also almost dragged to the other side of the barbed wire, it happened only 40 km from...

guides, they first conduct reconnaissance and only after that take us to our destination, a small village on the demarcation line, a radio is required in each car in case of an ambush, let's go, let's go, we are in karkushaan, at the beginning of this century, almost 100 people lived here, but now the village seems deserted, we get to the demarcation line by short marches, further on is south

ossetia, from georgia's point of view an occupied zone, occupied by russia. this banner, it didn't exist at all, it was put up just a few years ago, that is, it has already been lowered. south ossetia is a partially recognized republic, its independence has been recognized by five countries: venezuela, nicaragua, syria, russia and nauru, a dwarf island state in the pacific ocean. it was russia that first recognized the independence of south ossetia after the escalation of the georgian-setian conflict in the summer of 2008, when it considered it possible to introduce its troops into georgia and use force to separate south ossetia and abkhazia from it, which tbilisi now considers its own, but occupied , territories.

borders and people living on both sides of the contact line cannot cross it, but the fsb officers themselves , it seems, do not restrict themselves with any restrictions, along this edge of the field into our controlled territory, cuts the path, a patrol of russian occupation forces, and comes here, and often crosses to this side, we are here... found the remains of dry rations, traces, everything as it should be. georgiy, or as everyone calls him, gagi makharadze, an activist of the strength in unity movement, which is monitoring the contact line. he says that his native georgian land for many kilometers around has turned

into a fear zone, being in which, in the literal sense of the word, is life-threatening. simply no one goes there. in the past year - from there a person was taken away first at the beginning of the year one, at the end of the year three at once. there is beautiful, fertile land all around, but the fields and houses are abandoned, the bad reputation of these places forced people to leave their native lands. look now, now it is orthodox easter, now the people here should be in their mass, yes, there is no one, look at this. everything is abandoned, no one wants, no one comes at all, but in karkushaani there still live two dozen people who, despite the famous georgian hospitality they don't even leave their houses

when they see people with cameras, but the villagers are afraid not of us, but of the fact that tomorrow russian security forces will come to their yard with questions: complaints, who was there, what did they want, why did they talk to strangers, however, we still managed to talk to the locals, hello, hello, we have a question, we were at the cemetery, apparently no one has been there for a long time, but the cemetery is close to them, it's dangerous, kela karkusashvili lives at the very edge of the village, next to the cemetery, which he hasn't been to for several years, he is not afraid to communicate with... with visitors, kela is a lonely old man who has nothing to lose, although he really does not want to end up in the tskhenvali prison in his old age, maybe i will go, there will be no one, and they will hide in the forest, and where will you eat?

kela was born here in karkushaan, lived in tbilisi for some time, worked in the police and at a construction site, then returned, says that not so long ago there were a lot of people here. especially in the spring, when summer residents came, on church holidays the whole village went to the cemetery, arranged each other in the yards noisy gatherings, and here, at the neighbors, who one day suddenly found themselves on the other side of the border, from here to the village of svyatiyskoye, somewhere 3-4 kilometers, well , you go uphill, well, there our people lived there together drank. normal neighbors and people walked they walked and we walked before the war. kela spends most of his time on his plot, where he has a small vegetable garden, even if russian barbed wire suddenly entangles his backyard, kela says that he will not leave, because this house was built back

his grandfather, and he simply doesn't have another home. well, i don't know, you'll leave then, where will i go, where? they'll accept me now, okay, we won't bother you anymore, no, no, in no case, on the contrary, it's very good that you came, we are all alone here, thank you very much, i wish that next year everything will only get better, better and better, that the situation will improve throughout georgia, okay, happy easter, many years of life, i wish deoccupation, deoccupation. tea wire north of karkushaania rises up, towards the village burgulli. recently , markings have started appearing on the trees there, a sure sign that georgia's territory will soon become even smaller. this is always a harbinger, this is not the first time we have had this happen, this is a harbinger of the fact that they will install

barbed wire, a banner, and so on. first, they paint over the trees, then they move them. then they send a patrol along them, so to speak, to get the local population used to them. then they make an installation, we were about to go up, when suddenly the birds fell silent, i would not have paid attention, but our guides were wary hurried back to the cars. "if guests come from that side, we might not come back, especially since the gaga with their ideas about liberating their native lands has long been like a red rag to a bull for the pro-russian tskhenvali. if we are captured, it is better to be killed on the spot, that is, not to give in, to force them to kill you, otherwise if they drag us away, then it will be longer and more painful. on the way back to karkushaani we notice an elderly couple, they hurried

to hide in the house, but seeing the gaga, they still came out, we live here in fear, because the russians don't even let us into the cemetery, we can't drive the cattle up there, because if they get lost, they'll be lost forever, i, an old man , can't take them to the other side. that's why there are no cows. zaur and zezelo have lived here in this village all their lives. before the war, they had cows and goats, now only a few birds remain. zezilo constantly apologized that she had nothing to treat her guests with except easter eggs, who have rarely come here lately. it so happened that these lands, with the active assistance of the russians, became an exclusion zone for the georgians.

they don't let almost anyone near the barbed wire except for the locals. people in uniform told us that it was too dangerous in that direction. here the so-called demarcation line runs practically along the road, and then it goes deeper. there is the village of khurvaletti, which turned out to be, well, practically surrounded by russian security forces. in khurvalite we are already traveling with a police escort. you feel more need more not for our protection, but so that we do not come too close to the banner

of the russian border guard tower, but even so with armed people there is still no security, unlike us, the locals are deprived of this feeling, but the truth is i don’t want anything, go away, when you leave, the russians will come and start threatening, i don’t want anything, leave me alone, yes they will come and sort things out with me,

they want me to leave , what should i leave this for now, so that it remains for the russians, your land, i tell them, that’s with which you came to fight, what do you want here, i grew up here, this is my home,

i asked him, do you have a home here, no, he answers, despite how russia behaves in transcaucasia, even in these villages living in the fear zone, there is not a drop of that russophobia that moscow loves to talk about. many of the silchans here willingly spoke to us in russian, if they knew it, agreeing that the language is not to blame for anything, because people from russia, among other things, help locals with food, organize children's camps, and simply with those, what they tell their compatriots. it still happens when they need some kind of political pressure, they come, move the barbed wire, cut off even more land from georgia, kidnap people, citizens of georgia cross this barbed wire, where there are holes, grab people, drag them there to the kgb in skenvale. egor, a citizen of russia, has been chronicling russian pressure on georgia for 10 years,

he is the author of the youtube channel border zone, he says kidnappings and land seizures happen when russia needs georgia for something punish from criticism and refusal to sell large enterprises to participation in nato exercises. they need to be shown what it means, sit quietly, we are the main ones everywhere for the kremlin, then they also start to make some provocations so that there is fear and panic in georgia. unfortunately, georgia has long been accustomed to all this, because well, how many years has this been going on, but in these villages , soldiers with machine guns, russian ones, just come in and walk around the village like that. there are houses where people enter the yards all the time on georgian-controlled territory kurvalite armed people from that side come regularly, turning this place into a zone of fear and alienation, a few years ago, when journalists came here, the whole village came out to meet them, now no one comes out, because

there is no one left to trust, but there is someone to be afraid of, from this side they just come and walk with a machine gun... they run into the house, close themselves and wait until it passes, because the barking of dogs means that russian soldiers are coming, they scare both children and adults with the shenval prison in these parts, they say here that people return from there with traces of torture, try not to communicate with strangers, afraid that for the wrong words they will be taken away again. and even killed. every month on the contact line dozens of people are detained, according to the authorities of the unrecognized republics, for violating the border regime, but in georgia they call it abductions. raklikal was also seized, dragged there.

he has a young wife there, a young, small child, the man for some reason hanged himself in the cell immediately. from khorvaleti to sakarintla only a few kilometers, before the road between the two villages took about 10 minutes,

now you have to take a long detour. here i met russian border guards who were hiding in the bushes next to the barbed wire. that's how they often walk, it's possible that they will sneak up on us now. they hid, hid. here, right here below is their checkpoint, they crept up from there and lay down. our guide got nervous, and i, too, succumbing to his mood, just in case turned on the camera from the broadcast on social networks case of a possible detentions. i have already heard about the methods of russian border guards, holding people at gunpoint, they force them to climb over the fence and immediately arrest them for illegal border crossing. eh, let's go back, look in the bushes, he's hiding here by the bush, in that bush 5 m away, over there,

let's go back, do you see or not, i noticed, he was lying there, i saw they have a big car there, you see, he arrived, let's leave, otherwise they'll catch us, come on, that's it, we've made a circle.

her neighbors, like many others, but after wandering around among friends and relatives, people did return, because there was nowhere to live, and they couldn’t give up their land to treacherous neighbors, how much longer can this go on, today, tomorrow there is talk that the border should reach kleymachal, and we will end up there, it’s scary to be here, but there’s nowhere to go. until 2008, teniko had no idea that she could end up in the border zone, because behind the barbed wire in sakorintlo, in khurvalet, in karkushaan,

the former georgian-alhangori region, which was transferred to south ossetia only in 2008, after signed in moscow plan for peaceful settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict, called the medvedev-sarkozy plan, this is -

and what do they have hidden in their bunkers? well, sometimes we see tanks there , armored personnel carriers, but what's inside? how do we know? here it seems as if on the hills of georgia lies not pushkin's night mist, but a huge hand that plays with these lands and the people living on them, rearranging soldiers and borders as it pleases, this hand is capable of destroying peaceful life at any moment. of a small country, as it has already done more than once. the one and a half thousand year old jvari above the confluence of moragvia and kura can at any moment turn into a strategic height,

such is for... for georgia the price of a dangerous neighborhood, it is scary to go into these departments, but the more i went into this, i understood more and more that i would probably be a psychiatrist, here in parallel i learn... that in the ussr there is an abuse of psychiatry, healthy people are recognized as sick, they are put in psychiatric hospitals, on indefinite detention, in terrible conditions, registration, our country with a huge speed flies into the abyss, what have you managed to build in your 37 years, so with this youtube of yours,

i want as a creator to create, so that people live in paradise, what will change, if you are already in a utopian state, what should change, we will break through to paradise, this is the woman who wants to take care of your child, while you do not speak, the child remains, naturally, he has, mom, mom, don't cry, mom,

"i hope that we will have housing, we will send the children to study, but these dreams did not come true, what do i miss most, we hunted wild goats in the mountains, rode horses, rode yaks, we lived the way we wanted, free as birds, we literally drove, well, maybe 5-7

km from the front line.

what's going on there, fly in.