"That's so. Gone are the days when the telescopes admired the moon and the stars. Now the Russian Army is a cosmos, admiring it, watching it, "one of the Twitter users wrote.
Someone noted that Merkel did not need to spend so much energy trying to make out the base through binoculars, because "you could just ask to visit."
"Crying, probably, because there could have been soldiers from NATO, and they had nothing to do with impudence!" - joked in the social network.
During her visit to Georgia, Merkel visited Odzisi village on the border with South Ossetia. As the German media wrote, from there she watched through binoculars at a nearby "Russian military base."