Russia's UN Delegation Walks Out During Saakashvili's 'Crazy' Speech | Business | The Moscow Times

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Saakashvili addressing the 68th United Nations General 

Assembly in New York on Wednesday.

Outgoing Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili assailed Russia as "the last authoritarian empire in the world" during a speech to the UN General Assembly, and predicted that President Vladimir Putin would disappear from Russian politics, prompting the Russian delegation to walk out in protest.

Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, decried Saakashvili's remarks as "crazy fabrications" and even "anti-Christian," and said the Georgian leader needed psychological help.

Saakashvili, whose second and final term ends next month, warned that the Kremlin was using "constant pressures and threats" to establish a new Russian empire through the proposed Eurasian Union, a political and economic bloc of former Soviet republics.

"It makes me sick when KGB agent Vladimir Putin lectures the World about freedom values and democracy. This is least of the things he can do to the world being a dictatorial leader of one of the last empires left," Saakashvili said. "But this new project [the Eurasian Union] is much more dangerous than his lectures."

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