Ukraine opposition to send Georgian leader neckties to chew on

[reorg]

Source: Russian News & Information Agency NOVOSTI

KIEV, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's opposition party has pledged to send 365 neckties to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently caught on camera nervously chewing his garment while discussing the Georgian-Russian conflict.

Saakashvili has caused an internet sensation with his tie-chewing antics, captured during a phone conversation with a top Western official and aired by the BBC, and also over footage of him running in apparent terror after speaking to reporters, believing he was about to be attacked by Russian planes.

Party of Regions lawmaker Boris Kolesnikov told a crowd of supporters in the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk: "We have already bought Saakashvili spiked running shoes, similar to those worn by the Jamaican sprinter who won the Olympic 100 meters. We will also buy him 365 neckties, so that he will have enough to chew on every day of the year."

After the lawmaker's speech on the main square in Donetsk, the center of eastern Ukraine's coal mining industry, five heavy goods vehicles left the square carrying aid for children in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, devastated by Georgia's August 8 military offensive.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/world/20080822/116219864.html

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He may be needing these items soon, given that change of government in this young democracy seems regularly to occur by means of literally chasing the president from the government premises.

[lib2DaBone]

1. Lie down with fleas......

like George Bush....you get more fleas......

[GeneCosta]

2. Lol

Brutal.

[ensho]

3. good going to the Ukraines - ties, and good going on the aid to the bombed

glad to see Ukraine people speaking up.

[Silentobserver]

4. Someone please check out this Georgian-President-Guy...

... For mental stability. He has been acting very un-presidential if you ask me! First, the decision to start a war he could not finish and now chewing on his neck-tie like an animal trying to chew its way out of captivity... Quite not the image of a leader, no!

[David__77]

5. This Georgia thing has sealed the fate of the backward "color revolutions."

The CIA "color revolutions" were never progressive: not in Yugoslavia, not in Georgia, the Ukraine, or elsewhere. I'm glad to see the whole project fall apart.