{"id":46087,"date":"2010-09-23T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/23\/putin-treats-his-citizens-ruthlessly-saakashvili-in-fox-news-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:20:00","slug":"putin-treats-his-citizens-ruthlessly-saakashvili-in-fox-news-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/23\/putin-treats-his-citizens-ruthlessly-saakashvili-in-fox-news-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin Treats his Citizens Ruthlessly: Saakashvili in Fox News Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">In an <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4346401\/mikheil-saakashvili-on-your-world\/?playlist_id=87937\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Fox News<\/a>, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that Russia is ruled by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who ruthlessly treats his own citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">As an example of Putin&#8217;s ruthlessness, Saakashvili recalled Russian enterpreneur <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Mikhail Khodorkovsky<\/a>. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The most talented businessman Khodorkovsky is still in prison&#8230; he served his term in a gulag in Siberia, so they had to let him go, but now they brought him back basically [and] tried him a second time&#8230; for the same stuff,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Georgian leader also recalled that Washington&#8217;s official position is that &#8220;the Russians are illegally occupying part of Georgia&#8221;; that is, South Ossetia and Abkhazia (two breakaway republics in Georgia). According to Saakashvili, how else would you call it when one country enters another&#8217;s territory, takes a piece of that territory and expels 80% of the population.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgian President Mikheil&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[16057,16055,11705,16056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}