Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin met with Zurab Nogaideli, Georgia’s ex-PM and now leader of opposition Movement for Fair Georgia party, in Moscow on October 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry and Nogaideli’s party reported.

“The sides discussed the current difficult situation in the Russian-Georgian relations as well as the problems of South Caucasus region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a press release.

Zurab Nogaideli arrived in Moscow on October 25, as he said, to hold meetings with representatives of Georgian, Abkhaz and Ossetian communities in Russia as a part of his attempt to launch “public diplomacy.”