Saakashvili yatsenyuk biography
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Yatsenyuk’s Resignation and the Formation of Ukraine’s Next Government
On 10 April, after two years in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned. President Petro Poroshenko nominated the speaker of parliament, Volodymyr Hroysman, to become the new PM. Both Yatsenyuk’s resignation and Hroysman’s nomination are intended to end the political crisis within the ruling coalition and avoid early parliamentary elections. Polls show that only 11% of the country’s citizens support the president’s party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc “Solidarity” (PPB), and just 2% support the People’s Front (PF). Were early elections to be held, the president would lose influence and Yatsenyuk’s party would not even get into parliament.
Creating a Parliamentary Majority
A new government now will be formed by those two parties. However, it was necessary to accept into both parties’ ranks some non-faction deputies. In accordance with Ukrai
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Mikheil Saakashvili
Georgian-Ukrainian politician (born 1967)
Mikheil Saakashvili[nb 1][nb 2] (; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.[6][7] He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. He is the founder and former chairman of Georgia's United National Movement party. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast.[1][8] After resigning, he was temporarily exiled, but returned in 2019 under a new President. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in 2021, and has been imprisoned there since then.
Saakashvili entered Georgian politics in 1995 as a member of parliament and Minister of Justice under President Eduard Shevardnadze. He then founded the opposition United National Movement party. In 2003, as a leading opposition figure, he accused the government of rigging the 2003 Georgian par
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Mikheil Saakashvili Proves There's an Evolving Russian-Speaking Space
As the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili rarely missed a chance to present himself as a man whose mission was to dismantle every vestige of Soviet or Russian imperial legacy. He opened a museum of occupation in Tbilisi and ordered a gigantic World War II memorial be blown up to make way for a new Georgian parliament building. He made English rather than Russian the primary foreign language in Georgian schools and later called on Ukrainians to follow suit.
Yet, reincarnated as governor of Ukraine's Odessa region and consequently stripped of Georgian citizenship, he is living proof that a common ex-Soviet, Russian-speaking, Eurasian — you name it — cultural and political space remains very much alive and kicking. This may sound like good news to th