{"id":73521,"date":"2011-03-07T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=73521"},"modified":"2011-03-07T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:40:03","slug":"saakashvili-is-americas-son-of-a-bitch-lukashenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/07\/saakashvili-is-americas-son-of-a-bitch-lukashenko.html","title":{"rendered":"Saakashvili is America&#8217;s &#8216;Son of a Bitch&#8217;: Lukashenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a three-hour interview with Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth last week, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called Saakashvili a \u2018son of a bitch,\u2019 reports Georgia&#8217;s InterpressNews.<\/p>\n<p>On the journalist\u2019s presumption that Lukashenko would never have problems, Lukashenko answered:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t. Recently in Georgia, President Saakashvili suppressed in a most brutal way a manifestation of the opposition. Yet you continue to deal with him. Why? Because Saakashvili is your son of a bitch. Tell the Americans we think very highly of them. We will never build an iron curtain to prevent them from coming to Belarus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He accused the US of organizing rallies in Minsk during elections. &#8220;Who else to blame? You gave them money. Should I blame China? We will not allow you to create a fifth column in Belarus . . . to undermine the system in Belarus. My power is okay. But God forbid you to turn around the situation in our country and have events unfold&#8230;,&#8221; Lukashenko said.<\/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>In a three-hour interview with Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth last week, Belarusian President Alexander&#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":73473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10607,11705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73521"}],"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=73521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}