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Foreign Policy: Washington’s forgotten golden boy is trying for a comeback in Georgia

Published Nov. 8, 2021 at 7:37 am

Ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili poses for a photo after arriving in Ukraine on May 29, 2019. He returned to Kyiv after President Volodymyr Zelensky restored his Ukrainian citizenship.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

It’s over a month since the former president of the South Caucasus nation of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, announced his hunger strike. Against the advice of his allies and the wishes of his enemies, Saakashvili, who ruled the small former Soviet republic between 2004 and 2013, returned to his native country on Oct. 1 in secret and was subsequently arrested.