Mikheil Saakashvili—once the revolutionary great hope of Georgia's pro-Western groundswell—cannot be a part of the historic showdown paralyzing a nation long caught between Europe and Russia.The former president—jailed since 2021 on charges he says are politically motivated—told Newsweek in an exclusive interview that he must follow the latest developments from afar, having been 'isolated to the maximum' from the outside world.
Rhetorically committed to Tbilisi's long-held and widely popular EU membership ambitions, Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022, has seen Ivanishvili's party drift closer to the Kremlin, even as hundreds of thousands of Russians crossed the mountainous border to escape Putin's mobilization orders.Its first attempt to pass the foreign agents bill was defeated by mass protests in 2023. The current push, Saakashvili said, bears Moscow's fingerprints.
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