Russia's Top Diplomat Piles Insults on Georgian Leader 3 Years after War

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on during his meeting with South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-Hwan (unseen) in Moscow, Russia, 08 August 2011. EPA/BGNES

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili is an "ill-bred" "pathology" and "anomaly" of his nation, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov stated three years after the start of the brief 2008 Russia-Georgia War over South Ossetia.

"President Saakashvili is a pathology and anomaly of the Georgian people and, moreover, is ill-bred," Lavrov said during a meeting with his South Korean colleague, Kim Sung-Hwan, in Moscow, as cited by RIA Novosti.

"But we, as President Medvedev earlier said, do not associate the Georgian people with this character...and are ready to develop business, [as well as] pragmatic and mutually beneficial contacts with Georgia," Lavrov added.

Last week, in an interview with Russian and Georgian media, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he "will never forgive" Saakashvili for the deaths of Russian peacekeepers caught up in the Georgian-Russian conflict on August 8, 2008, RIA Novosti reminds. Medvedev also said he would support the idea of an international tribunal for the Georgian president.

Saakashvili's press service stroke back at Medvedev by saying that he "justifies with cynicism ethnic cleansing and occupation that the Russian Federation carried against the Georgian nation."

"It [Russian-Georgian war] is not over from the Russian side because I can practically say that Russia doesn't recognize the peace agreement and officially wants to overthrow our government," Saakashvili said on Monday in an interview with Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station.

Russia and Georgia fought a brief war August 7-16 2008 when Georgia tried to retake its breakaway region of South Ossetia by force. In the aftermath, it and nearby Abkhazia declared independence and were recognized by Russia, although only a few other countries followed suit.

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