Vladimir Putin wants to see Mikheil Saakashvili hanged 'by the balls'
Russia has one desire in relation to Mikheil Saakashvili — to see him removed as President of Georgia and preferably hanged “by the balls”, in Vladimir Putin’s colourful expression.
President Medvedev has set out the Kremlin’s policy just as graphically, calling Mr Saakashvili a “political corpse” who “no longer exists in our eyes”. He told Western analysts that his Georgian counterpart was “mentally unstable”.
The rhetoric has been unrelentingly harsh since last August’s war over South Ossetia.
General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, claimed last week that Georgia was rearming to try to reclaim South Ossetia and its other lost region of Abkhazia by force.
Georgia denies this but it suits Russia to cast Mr Saakashvili as an aggressor once more.
Russian diplomats have been working to strip the conflict zone of international observers. A UN observer mission ended in Abkhazia last week after 16 years when Russia vetoed the renewal of its mandate. More
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