In July, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Because Saakashvili had already lost his Georgian citizenship when he accepted Poroshenko’s invitation to become governor of the Odesa region in 2015, Poroshenko’s decision effectively left his onetime ally legally stateless.
RFE/RL: Legal expert says onus on Ukraine to justify depriving Saakashvili of citizenship
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili speaks to media while Ukrainain border guard officers try to hand him a protocol of administrative offence near the hotel where he stays in the centre of western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Sept. 12.
