TBILISI (Reuters) -Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to nine more years in jail after being found guilty of embezzlement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili appears on a screen during a court hearing in Tbilisi WARSAW (Reuters) - A team ...

March 12 (UPI) --A court in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday sentenced the country's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to nine years in prison after being convicted of embezzling ...

Thomas de Waal reviews Saakashvili’s presidency in Foreign Affairs. He recounts how his American cheerleaders enabled some of his most reckless behavior, including the August 2008 war: American ...

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TBILISI – Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for almost a month, has a “right to commit suicide” amid ...

A parliamentary vote could decide whether the Caucasus nation will be oriented to the West or East for years to come. Here’s what to know. By Ivan Nechepurenko The leader of the governing party said ...

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TBILISI -- As Mikheil Saakashvili's hunger strike in a Georgian prison nears the one-month mark, authorities in the Black Sea nation are flummoxed by what to do with the stubbornly defiant ...

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The inauguration ceremonies drew heavily from Georgia's distant history. For instance, prior to the public inauguration ceremony, Saakashvili privately made what was termed a "spiritual" oath at the ...