Kremlin Hopes for Friendlier Georgia
By Simon Saradzhyan Staff Writer President Vladimir Putin came out swinging hard at ousted Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze on Monday, accusing him of driving Georgia to the brink of collapse and urging the triumphant opposition to improve the country's strained relations with Russia.
"The change of power in Georgia is the logical result of a series of systemic mistakes by the previous leadership of the country in its domestic, foreign and economic polices," Putin said at a Cabinet meeting.
Those policies have left Georgia with a foreign debt of $2 billion, or 60 percent of the country's gross domestic product, he said.
Georgians "stopped seeing light at the end of this long tunnel," he said, stressing that Shevardnadze had failed to eradicate corruption.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/11/25/001.html
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