14:03, 24 November 2025

Social media users are skeptical about reports of Chechens being denied entry to Georgia.

A checkpoint entering Georgia. Photo: News-Georgia https://www.newsgeorgia.ge/

The reasons behind the denial of entry into Georgia are specific to specific individuals, and reports of mass border denials for people from Chechnya and other regions of the North Caucasus are exaggerated, participants in discussions on Facebook* suggested.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that Georgian border guards continue to deny entry to people from Chechnya without explanation, and pay special attention to their place of birth, according to commenters on Instagram*. Some of them reported being denied entry five or more times.

For many years, Georgian border guards have been denying entry to people from the North Caucasus without explanation. Some have received two or even three refusals, residents of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia interviewed by the Caucasian Knot in June 2022 reported. In May 2023, former Caucasian Knot correspondent Zhalaudi Geriev was denied entry to Georgia again. He linked this practice to discrimination based on origin, noting that a border guard had noticed his place of birth in his passport.

Facebook* users have left more than 490 comments under the Caucasian Knot post about numerous refusals of entry to Georgia for natives of Chechnya, as of 1:55 PM Moscow time. Some participants in the discussion believed that there were serious reasons behind the denial of entry to Georgia.

"Customs is an economic matter, and border guards are a completely different department. Apparently, there are issues with customs. Most often, they are directed at car smugglers and resellers. Border guards don't pay attention to this. From personal experience, I know that refusals out of the blue happen very rarely," noted Ulyana Samushina.

"Those who have been to Abkhazia and South Ossetia are definitely not allowed in," suggested Givargis Varda.

"Those who fought in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, their family members, or those who were in the occupied territories, will not be allowed into (Georgia)!" Mamuka Nasaridze supported him.

"I haven't been there, I've never been to Georgia either. An ordinary person, no criminal record. They didn't let me in, and not only him. I personally know about 10 people, they didn't even let me visit my relatives," Nastinka Nastasia countered.

"As if Russia explains why they refuse entry." "It's just a mirror image," wrote Vadim Ponomaryov.

"Because some people come to kill girls who have fled domestic violence," said Mariana Sher.

33-year-old Aliya Ozdamirova, who fled Chechnya due to threats from her family, was deceived or forcibly taken from Georgia to the republic on November 9. On November 12, the girl's funeral took place. According to acquaintances, she could have been the victim of an "honor killing".

Users also considered reports of mass denials of entry to Georgia for residents of the North Caucasus regions to be unfounded.

"Tbilisi is full of tourists from Russia, including Chechnya. Before writing libelous comments, understand the specific cases and reasons and don't shift the blame," said Georgiy Khorguashvili.

"I've seen people speaking Chechen on the streets of Tbilisi more than once. Not our Kistinians, but guests from the north. Yesterday I saw a whole group with a guide. "But apparently some are being turned back," Ilya Ilya elaborated on this theme.

"If you think a reason must be stated, then every country in the world has a clause for that: 'And other reasons.' This clause doesn't allow for an explanation... How do you explain the fact that there are so many Chechens and Dagestanis in Georgia? There's no need to make some kind of (discrimination) based on nationality or religion out of this," concluded a reader with the nickname Giorgi GP.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417467