INTERVIEW: Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s fifth president

INTERVIEW: Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s fifth president

Zourabichvili lays out the complex reality of Georgia’s ongoing political crisis, and explains how the country has become a testing ground for both Russian hybrid interference and Western diplomatic intervention.

A court in Tbilisi sentenced Mikheil Saakashvili for abuse of state resources. The opposition speaks of a political trial.

Georgia’s former President Saakashvili sentenced to nine more years in prison

A court in Georgia on Wednesday convicted imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili on embezzlement charges and handed him another prison term of nine years. Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president in 2004-13, is already serving a six-year prison term for abuse of power. He was convicted in absentia in 2018, and arrested in 2021 upon his return to Georgia.