A Ukrainian government spokesman says President Petro Poroshenko is considering naming former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili the new governor of the southwestern Odesa region, an appointment that would likely exacerbate tensions between Kyiv and Moscow amid Ukraine's shaky cease-fire with Russian-backed separatists.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Poroshenko considering Saakashvili for governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region
A former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili (C) attends a funeral ceremony on Independence Square in Kiev on April 24, 2015 of Georgy Djanelidze, 41, a Georgian fighter of the Ukrainian battalion of Azov who died during fighting against pro-Russian rebels in east of the country.
