"Russia is a great power, and we are not going to forgive being spat on. If someone has no brains, we would sober them up with simple, accessible and abundantly understandable methods," Speaker of the Russian Senate (Federal Council) Sergey Mironov told the journalists on October 2, according to the Interfax news agency.

Mironov blamed the "clique of the Georgian authorities" for deteriorating relations between the two countries and said "the Georgian people always lived in agreement with the Russian nation."