On 8 August at a ceremony to decorate the participants who took part in the aggression against Georgia, the formal ringleader of the Kremlin Medvedev said that in time "fair and severe punishment" will come to the Georgian leadership.
Thus, Medvedev expressed the long-standing desire of the Russian duumvirate to finish with the pro-Western authorities in Georgia and to settle scores personally with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, considered in Tbilisi.
Openly threatening Georgian authorities, Medvedev said that "he is not equating the current Georgian authorities with the people of Georgia", somehow having forgotten that the current authorities has been elected just by the people of Georgia in the elections, which unlike in Russia were more or less transparent.
Medvedev's threats perceived in Tbilisi as demonstrative confirmation of Moscow's plans to destroy Georgian statehood, to overthrow the power and to establish its own unlimited influence, not only in Georgia, but also throughout the whole Transcaucasia.
Meanwhile, in response to Medvedev's threats ...