Friday, December 5, 2025

Saakashvili eyes comeback in Ukraine's politics after Zelenzky's first round win

TBILISI, DFWatch–The success of an opposition candidate in Ukraine’s presidential elections has given Georgia’s former leader Mikheil Saakashvili new hope of making a comeback in Kiev politics. After losing power in his home country, Saakashvili re-launched his career as politician in Ukraine, serving first as governor of Ukraine’s strategically important Odessa Oblast for 18 months, … Read more

Saakashvili criticized for his Syria statement

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Giorgi Margvelashvili advises Saakashvili to stop damaging the country’s interests. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Georgia slammed his predecessor Mikheil Saakashvili, accusing him of manipulating with important and strategic issues of the country’s security just for his own interests.

Mikheil Saakashvili earlier in Monday criticized

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Saakashvili offers to help Georgian government

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Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former President Mikheil Saakashvili continues to offer his assistance.

On Sunday, after instructing Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, to under no circumstance weaken the military operation against pro-Moscow separatists in the east,

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Speculations about Saakashvili's Kiev role celebrated by UNM

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Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Speculation that the new Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, might hire former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili as an advisor, is cheered by the latter’s supporters in Tbilisi.

It has not been possible for DF Watch to confirm a claim

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Saakashvili wants to educate Ukrainians in reforms

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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is to start a center for the study of reforms in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Saakashvili, who is currently in Kiev, said in an interview with a TV channel there that he wants to share his experiences

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Georgian PM: 'Suicide' if Ukraine takes advice from Saakashvili

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Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili claims former President Mikheil Saakashvili is being used as an adviser by the new interim authorities in Ukraine.

Appearing on a TV show Wednesday evening, he warned Ukrainian leaders not to trust the

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Saakashvili's appointment as 'Senior Statesman'

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John C. Kornblum is an American diplomat and businessman. (Photo: International Students’ Committee.)
This letter was published January 21, 2014, in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper at Tufts University.

I was distressed to read in your newspaper that former Georgian President Saakashvili had been appointed as a so-called “Senior Statesman” at the Fletcher

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Saakashvili to teach governance at Tufts University

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Former president Mikheil Saakashvili speaking at the UN earlier in 2013.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili will join Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the US from January.

He will hold lectures about European governance and other contemporary international and regional issues,

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Saakashvili is living in New York

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Mikheil Saakashvili appearing on Ukrainian TV channel 112 last Sunday. (112.ua)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A month after leaving office as president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili has revealed that he is currently living in New York and working on reform programs with several major US universities.

Appearing on Ukrainian TV 112, Saakashvili said he is

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