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    Mikheil Saakashvili (/ˌsɑːkəʃˈviːli/; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. He was the third president of Georgia...
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    Relations) at the Kyiv University. At this university he was friends with Mikheil Saakashvili, whom he would appoint as Governor of the Odesa Oblast (region) in...
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    assassinate United States President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili by throwing a hand grenade at both of them. The attempt failed when...
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    Security Service Grigol Liluashvili that Mikheil Saakashvili is under arrest. According to the investigation, Saakashvili entered the country secretly, hiding...
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    January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections. She withdrew into opposition to Saakashvili as the leader...
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  • honorary chairman Mikheil Saakashvili is considered the de facto leader. UNM's electoral number is 5. UNM was founded by Mikheil Saakashvili in 2001, in opposition...
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    was the First Lady of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, when her husband Mikheil Saakashvili was president of the country. Roelofs was born in Terneuzen, Netherlands...
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  • the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018. Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili by Dmitry Gordon "Names & Faces". The Washington Post. June 26, 2005...
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    against the United National Movement party of incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili. After serving as Prime Minister of Georgia from October 2012 to...
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    2003 that brought to power in Georgia the pro-Western government of Mikheil Saakashvili further complicated ties with Russia, despite attempts by both sides...
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    Mikheil Saakashvili stormed the Parliament session with red roses in hand. The revolution was led by Shevardnadze's former political allies, Mikheil Saakashvili...
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    The conflicts in Georgia remained at a stalemate until 2004, when Mikheil Saakashvili came to power after Georgia's Rose Revolution, which ousted president...
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    led by Mikheil Saakashvili, Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burjanadze, former members and leaders of Shevardnadze's ruling party. Mikheil Saakashvili was elected...
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    illegal trade, as did Russian customs and peacekeeping troops. When Mikheil Saakashvili was elected president in 2004, his goal was to return the breakaway...
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    Mikheil Saakashvili. After autumn 2015 attempts and negotiations were launched to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil...
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    same year, and recruited other reformists to the party, notably Mikheil Saakashvili. In 1993, Zhvania became general secretary of Shevardnadze's party...
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    Ivanishvili. On 1 October 2021, former president Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested on his return from exile. Saakashvili led the country from 2004 to 2013 but was...
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    Ossetia was generally peaceful. Following the 2003 Rose Revolution, Mikheil Saakashvili became the President of Georgia in 2004. Ahead of the 2004 parliamentary...
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    in the Rose Revolution, the Burjanadze-Democrats merged with the Mikheil Saakashvili-led United National Movement, and Margvelashvili quit politics. In...
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    high-ranking posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until...
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  • royal prince, son of King George XII Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician, former President of Georgia Mikheil Janelidze, Georgian politician, former...
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    border. However, Georgia's post-revolutionary government of President Mikheil Saakashvili managed to avoid bloodshed and with the help of Adjaran opposition...
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    of the UCG faction, known as “reformers” led by Zurab Zhvania and Mikheil Saakashvili and which called for more radical and Western-oriented political...
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    Due to the prosecution in Georgia of Georgian/Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, relations between the two...
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    a political team of young reformists headed by Zurab Zhvania and Mikheil Saakashvili and proved to be quite an effective minister. In 2001, he left the...
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    Stein flew in to Georgia to treat then-president Mikheil Saakashvili. Stein posted an image of Saakashvili's arm around her on her blog and an account of...
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    predisposition toward former Georgian President and then-opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili. President Donald Trump nominated Brink to become the ambassador...
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    businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili won a majority of the seats. President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded his party's defeat. The elections were held in accordance...
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    Development from 2006 to 2008 under President Mikheil Saakashvili. Arveladze is an ally of Saakashvili and played a central role in the Rose Revolution...
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  • elected president with 55% of the vote. 12 March – Former president Mikheil Saakashvili is convicted and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for embezzling...
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