"The Georgian police released our servicemen at 23.40 Moscow time," Kuparadze said.
The actions of the Georgian side were obviously provocative, he stressed.
"The military commandant of the Batumi garrison who arrived at the police station was not allowed to see the detainees. This fact, as well as the detention itself prove that it was a provocation," Kuparadze said.
The Russian servicemen were detained at the Adzharian office of the ruling Georgian party National Movement on Friday night. "Four servicemen from the Batumi base entered the headquarters of the National Movement political party and broke public order. They uttered obscene words against Georgians," Roman Kirkitadze of the party's Adzharian office told reporters.
The detainees told journalists at the police station that they had been "taking a stroll near the party headquarters." "Policemen twisted our hands and arrested us. We were not drunk and did not try to break into anywhere," one of the detainees said.
