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Aljazeera.com
April 28, 2018
In December 2017, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was seen being dragged off a roof in Kiev and bundled into a police van. He was freed shortly afterwards, when supporters ripped the doors off the van to free him, before being arrested again and later deported from Ukraine. SaakashviliÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 8, 2018
Former Georgian president and the governor of Odessa, Mikhail Saakashvili has found a job as a lecturer in the Netherlands, but vowed to resume his political career. In a written statement, Saakashvili said he has signed on with the "Speakers Academy" in the Netherlands, where he was granted residencyÃâà...
Eurasia Review
April 7, 2018
The ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili wants to return to Georgia after the presidential elections to initiate a fight against the authorities in power. “I will come to Georgia and carry out all the programs with my team. I will not leave my people in trouble,” Saakashvili said. According to him, “GeorgiaÃâà...
Civil Georgia
April 3, 2018
Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who serves as the honorary chairman of the opposition United National Movement party, released a brief televised statement today, slamming the Georgian Dream government for “catastrophic” economic situation in the country, and pledging to increase pensions for theÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 27, 2018
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrives to give a press conference in Warsaw on February 13, 2018.Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili vowed to "fight till the end" after Ukraine deported him to Poland following a falling-out with Ukraine's leader Petro Poroshenko. Saakashvili, 50Ãâà...
Kyiv Post
March 25, 2018
Mikhail Saakashvili's New Forces Movement has said that Mykola Kulyk detained in Stary Sambir while trying to illegally export 100 kg of amber from Ukraine, has nothing to do with their party. “We state that the person mentioned by the publication (by Interfax-Ukraine) has nothing to do with the NewÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 18, 2018
KYIV -- Supporters of opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili demonstrated in Kyiv on March 18 to demand the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko. Hundreds of people gathered in the Ukrainian capital in Independence Square -- Maidan Nezalezhnosti -- the epicenter of the Euromaidan protestsÃâà...
Metro
March 16, 2018
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has suggested that Russia attempted to assassinate a spy in the UK because Vladimir Putin expected the reaction would be 'softer' than other nations. Mr Saakashvili suggested a similar move would not have been made in the US as it may have triggeredÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 14, 2018
Mikheil Saakashvili: Exaggerating Vladimir Putin's impact in the US only makes him stronger in our region. by Mikheil Saakashvili. | March 14, 2018 12:05 PM. Print this article. Vladimir Putin election influence Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in MoscowÃâà...
Messenger.ge
March 7, 2018
One of the most intriguing people at the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of international relations nabobs from Europe, North America and elsewhere, was erstwhile Georgian President and Odessan Governor Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili is no longer president orÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 3, 2018
27. 14 policemen were wounded as a result of the clash after activists unexpected tried to burn tires, threw stones and Molotov cocktails. Nine activists were detained by police. Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on Feb. 21 was banned from entering Ukraine for three years after Kyiv deportedÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 3, 2018
The New Forces Movement party of Mikheil Saakashvili states that their activists were not present in the tent city near the Verkhovna Rada building, where supposedly only military and Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) veterans remained. “Today, the free right to an unwanted power of the government and toÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
February 12, 2018
Today, Mikheil Saakashvili is under siege, as his popularity wanes and criminal charges stack up against him in two countries. The former Georgian president-turned-Ukrainian politician was arrested Monday at a restaurant in central Kiev. Within hours he was on a chartered jet headed to Poland.
New York Times
January 5, 2018
KIEV, Ukraine — A Georgian court on Friday sentenced former President Mikheil Saakashvili to three years in prison for abusing his pardon powers while serving as president. Mr. Saakashvili, who is now in Ukraine, was sentenced in absentia. Mr. Saakashvili's legal woes have been piling up in both hisÃâà...
The Independent
December 11, 2017
Mikheil Saakashvili's wife has asked Western powers for help as her husband appeared at a court in Kiev accused of being involved in an alleged Russian plot to overthrow Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko. The appeal came as a Ukrainian judge turned down the prosecutors' request to place MrÃâà...
New York Times
December 8, 2017
MOSCOW — Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, was arrested on Friday in Ukraine during a late-night police raid on an apartment where he had been hiding after his escape from custody following a rooftop struggle with security agents this week. Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine's prosecutorÃâà...
