The career of any empire, it goes without saying, represents a process of interethnic interaction. In order to grasp the dynamic aspects of this phenomenon, it is first of all necessary to understand the colonizing ethnic group's self-image, and how this is generalized to the globalizing imagination of the empire's role. The creation of an empire of necessity implies the formation of a "private universe" and the subordination of others to this universe on the basis of self-evident principles of "justification". Beyond these idealized motives ("justification") on the part of the empire's leadership, there often occurs the neglect of certain principles of utility and security.

Dear compatriots!
The brotherhood of the Abkhazians and Georgians starts from the immemorial times. Our common Colchian origin, the genetic relationship between our peoples and languages, the common history, the common culture, today make us think of the future fate of our peoples. We were living on one Homeland and we shared each other with difficulties. We had a common Kingdom for centuries, praying in one of the temples and fighting against common enemies in one battlefield.

Georgian and Ukrainian peoples strived to build relations from the ancient times. From 1801 when Georgia was gradually integrated in Czarist Russia, these relations acquired even stronger basis. Georgian students in Russia and the Ukraine were in close relations with the Ukrainian young people and public figures. Georgian students studying in the cities of the Ukraine took active part in the social life of the country.

"Marjah" - adroitly, lively, valorously - with this expression our brother Weinakhs encourage dancers performing their steps in the mystery of the dance; the dance in which a nation’s, a people’s genius is expressed (Grigol Robakidze), for it is the call of a soul to union with God, the cry of blood resounding across the millennia and reaching to the present; even as its incorporator, performer.