Saakashvili says Russia started war to gain energy supplies

For a President facing political crisis, with Russian troops dug into Georgian soil and daily street protests calling for his head, Mikheil Saakashvili certainly put on a bombastic show for the visiting press.

His performance as he visited vineyards, promising subsidies and equipment, and posed with tourists in this medieval fortress town, combined the casual charm of Barack Obama with good old fashioned Soviet-style propaganda.
LondonTimes