Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested immediately upon arrival in the country. For many years he did not appear in his homeland because of the threat of being imprisoned, but the day before he said that he was in Batumi, where he had come to support people during the local elections. President of Georgia ...
Georgia is recalling its ambassador to Kiev for consultations in connection with the appointment of former President Mikheil Saakashvili to the post of head of the executive committee of reforms under the President of Ukraine, BBC reports. This is reported by the Georgian media, referring to the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia David Zalkaliani. ...
Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili flew to Ukraine on May 29. On the eve, President Zelensky returned his Ukrainian citizenship. In 2015, Saakashvili received Ukrainian citizenship and the post of head of the Odessa regional administration. Two years later, Petro Poroshenko suspended the decree on granting citizenship policy, then ...
The complex political intrigues in Ukraine are not so easy to understand. This week, however, we witnessed a rare moment of clarity. The most important internal issue in this country is corruption. And for the first time in modern history, we have the people and institutions to fight it. The Washington Post article “It’s time for the West...
Tuesday morning began with a message from David Sakvarelidze that security forces were trying to break into the door of the apartment of the former chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration, and now the chairman of the New Forces Movement, Mikheil Saakashvili. The events that unfolded took an unexpected turn: the crowd did not allow him to be arrested. Employees of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine...
Former President of Georgia, leader of the Ukrainian party “Rukh of New Forces” Mikheil Saakashvili said that he will live in a tent city near the building of the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. He asked the Ukrainians to protect him from deportation. LB writes about this. “I want to request protection within my ranks, in...
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship, wrote a column for the influential American Washington Post, in which he promised to continue the fight against corruption in Ukraine. The article is called "The President took away my passport, but I will continue to fight for modern Ukraine." The site "15 minutes" made ...
During an interview with CNN, Mikheil Saakashvili said that President Trump has reason to talk about the Ukrainian government's attempt in 2016 to reduce his chances of winning the presidential election. “President Trump, for example, said something about Ukraine. In Ukraine we value...
The Migration Service of Ukraine confirmed that by decree of the country's President Petro Poroshenko, the former governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, was deprived of his only Ukrainian citizenship. Now the politician is on a visit to the United States and will not be able to return to Ukraine. “The President of Ukraine issued a decree on deprivation of citizenship,”...
The governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, announced that he was resigning. At a press conference, broadcast on his Facebook page, he said that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko supports corrupt officials. “Odessa will begin to develop only after Kyiv is liberated from...