Distraction Technique? Russia Talks Up Annexing Georgia Breakaway Republics to ‘Teach West a Lesson’
Putin’s ranter-in-chief Medvedev made not-so-thinly veiled threats on Wednesday against two regions in Georgia, a NATO and EU aspirant.
Putin’s ranter-in-chief Medvedev made not-so-thinly veiled threats on Wednesday against two regions in Georgia, a NATO and EU aspirant.
Former President of Georgia and governor of Odessa, Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, shocked the world in an online court appearance this week in which he appeared on the brink of death, barely recognizable due to weight loss and what he claimed was poisoning.
Former president of Georgia and governor of Odessa, Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili demanded this week that Georgian officials release him from police custody and allow him to go to Kyiv, which is currently facing an incessant Russian military assault.
Russian lawmaker Andrey Lugovoy, who rose to international recognition as a top suspect in the polonium poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, dismissed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “child” and a “monkey” in a rant before the Duma on Tuesday.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili — who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October 2021 on corruption charges he denies — launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest the Georgian government’s “treatment of him,” particularly poor medical care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili ended a roughly 50-day hunger strike on Friday that he started in early October while imprisoned on dubious corruption charges, the Georgian Times reported.
Former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, currently imprisoned on dubious “abuse of office” charges, accused the current government of his country on Monday of seeking his “physical destruction at the behest of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”
As many as 3,000 people flooded the heart of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday in protest of the Russia-friendly Georgian Dream party claiming a victory in the weekend’s regional elections. The rally was the latest of several such events in the
Mikheil Saakashvili – a former president of Georgia and governor in Ukraine who has spent most of his career combatting Putin regime influence in the region – required “resuscitation assistance” on Sunday after 24 days on hunger strike, his lawyers said on Monday.
The administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky will open an investigation into Ukraine stripping former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, rendering him a stateless person, and deporting him to Poland last year, authorities announced on Monday.
Protests against Russian influence that resulted in Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze’s resignation Friday continued into Monday in Georgia, where thousands gathered to demand the resignation of multiple senior public officials.
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Protesters who support Ukraine’s populist Movement of New Forces claimed this week that the nation’s top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko lunged at their protest tent Monday night brandishing an ax.
Ukrainian authorities violently arrested and deported Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, to Poland on Monday, citing his lack of permission to enter the country.
Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets of Kiev on Sunday in support of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, arrested in the capital on Friday after accusing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration of widespread corruption.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the pro-West, stridently anti-Putin former president of Georgia, was reportedly arrested in Kiev, Ukraine late Friday, days after a crowd of supporters freed him from police custody by force.
The fallout from Ukraine’s dramatically failed attempt at arresting former Georgian president (and Ukrainian governor) Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday was a violent raid on supporters’ tent city in front of the nation’s parliament.
Former Georgian president – and former governor of Odessa, Ukraine – Mikheil Saakashvili escaped police custody on Tuesday after a crowd of hundreds of supporters dragged him out of the police car into which officers placed him after a raid on his home in Kiev.
Former Georgian President and Ukrainian Gov. Mikheil Saakashvili, exiled from Ukraine when current President Petro Poroshenko revoked his citizenship, re-entered the country on Sunday after a crowd of supporters pushed back border agents keeping him away.
KIEV, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Citing past praise by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his reforms, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili launched a new political party in Ukraine on Friday to fight corruption, just days after resigning bitterly as a
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov posted video online of his heated argument with Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and current governor of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.
The world and those in Odesa Oblast in Ukraine are still in shock that President Petro Poroshenko appointed ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as governor of the region.