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Mikheil Saakashvili announced his relationship with Lisa Yasko in a video posted by Yasko on Facebook.

Georgia

Saakashvili’s announcement of new relationship ‘unexpected’ to his wife

by Shota Kincha

•2 min read

The former First Lady of Georgia, Sandra Roelofs, has broken her silence on her relationship with Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, stating that his announcement of a new relationship with a Ukrainian MP was ‘unexpected’. Around an hour after Saakashvili, who is 53, was arrested in Georgia, Lisa Yasko, a 31-year-old parliamentarian from Ukraine’s ruling Servant of the People party, published a video on Facebook in which Saakashvili spoke about ‘starting a new life’ with her, explaini

Elections

Opposition activists and journalists attacked in run-up to Georgian by-elections

by OC Media

•6 min read

Opposition activists and a TV crew have been attacked in the west-Georgian city of Zugdidi in the run-up to the local mayoral election. On Tuesday morning, a group of men confronted Sandra Roelofs, the mayoral candidate for the opposition Power in Unity coalition, outside the city’s Dadiani Palace museum, cursing her in Georgian and Mingrelian. The group attacked several of Roelofs’ entourage as well as members of a TV crew from local station Odishi who were filming her. At one point, s

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Opinion | Ivanishvili clings to a frayed political brand while facing a new kind of opposition

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

On the eve of the 19 May by-elections in eight municipalities and for a parliamentary seat in Tbilisi’s Mtatsminda District, the Georgian Dream party, chaired by Georgia’s informal ruler Bidzina Ivanishvili, faces a potential new rival that could potentially mobilise the party’s estranged base — the Tbilisi elite. On 13 April, several thousand gathered in Tbilisi’s main concert hall for the announced revival of Defend Georgia. The group comprises of some of Tbilisi’s most influential public