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‘Rabbit’ Saakashvili gets carrots and cabbages

Published: 11 April, 2009, 15:34


Mikhail Saakashvili (AFP Photo / Victor Drachev)

Pressure is growing on Georgia’s president as the opposition is threatening civil disobedience. On Friday, protesters gathered near his residence, pelting it with carrots and cabbage, and calling him “a rabbit."

 
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