Tag: Saakashvili

Ex-President Saakashvili says Russia is also planning to attack Georgia, along with Ukraine

January 25, 2022 by DFWatch staff

Imprisoned former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili says that if Russia launches a direct military aggression on Ukraine, it will inevitably invade Georgia and occupy Black Sea ports that are of strategic importance to it. “According to my information, if Russia starts implementing a large-scale plan in Ukraine, it is going to capture Anaklia in … Read more

Novosibirsk Opera terminates contract with wife of former leader of Georgian opposition party UNM

January 14, 2021 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Russian theater in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, which was supposed to be headed by the wife of a prominent Georgian opposition politician, has terminated its contract with her. Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater said the decision was provoked by the fact that former Bolshoi prima ballerina Nino Ananiashvili made a premature public … Read more

"Zurabishvili and the GD should be worried": American analysts speak on Georgian elections

November 7, 2018 by Anna Kalandadze

Voice of America’s Anna Kalandadze discussed aftermath and fallout of the first round of presidential elections in Georgia with leading Eurasia analysts in Washington. Anna Kalandadze is VOA Georgian chief and can be followed on twitter @anavoa. VOA: Latest Presidential elections were marred by dozens of procedural irregularities, inappropriate media coverage, inadequate electoral environment, public … Read more

Saakashvili, Ivanishvili Lobbyist Pleads Guilty in Trump-Related Case

September 2, 2018 by ifact

An American lobbyist who worked in Georgia for Mikheil Saakashvili, Irakli Alasania and Bidzina Ivanishvili pleaded guilty on Friday in a case related to investigations of US president Donald Trump. Sam Patten admitted he used an unnamed American to pay $US50,000 for four tickets to one of the parties at Trump’s inauguration in 2017. The tickets were … Read more

Saakashvili supporters in Georgia demand his release from Kiev prison

December 11, 2017 by DFWatch staff

Nika Melia, the head of UNM ruling body, surrounded by party members, reads the address at Saturday briefing.

Georgia’s former ruling party expresses solidarity against the “political persecution” of its leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, who is under arrest in Kiev, Ukraine.

Former president of Georgia stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship

July 26, 2017 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukraine has stripped former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship, shortly after a visit to Georgia by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

A Ukrainian member of parliament first reported it on Facebook, and the information

Saakashvili ally Khatia Dekanoidze resigns in Ukraine

November 15, 2016 by DFWatch staff

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Ukraine’s National Police Chief Khatia Dekanoidze who was in charge of police reform in the country stepped down on Monday just in a week after resignation of her compatriot and ally, Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili.

Saakashvili believes Ukraine’s Poroshenko won’t extradite him to Georgia

November 14, 2016 by DFWatch staff

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who recently resigned as Odessa governor and is set to lead an opposition party, believes that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko won’t honour Tbilisi’s request to extradite him in the homeland, where he faces criminal charges.

Saakashvili’s ally in Odessa indicted by Georgia

September 22, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia (POG) has indicted a former Georgian official and Odessa governor confidant in Ukraine for directing a brutal dispersal of opposition rally back in 2011.

Gia Lortkipanidze, a deputy of then omnipotent

Saakashvili squabbled with SBU searching office of his advisor in Odessa [video]

May 26, 2016 by DFWatch staff

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Investigators of Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine and masked and armed members of Security Service (SBU) conducted searches in the office and premises of Odessa Regional Governor, Mikheil Saakashvili’s adviser on Thursday.