I doubt Putin, who is stretched pretty thin, is in a position to provide support to Ivanishvili. And that Georgia is nothing like Syria is further reason to play it some attention.It will be interesting to see how the fate of this oligarch plays out. — Banno
Indeed.Who or what replaces Putin when his time comes? Things could always be worse. — Tom Storm
Giorgi Gakharia, the leader of the opposition For Georgia party, who was attacked on January 15 in the Sheraton hotel in Batumi, said that the attack against him had the semblance of a premediated “political revenge” and was ordered and authored by Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Speaking at today’s briefing he said: “I and, in fact, my team were the victims of a premeditated and pre-organized violent attack, which had the appearance of political revenge, and which was ordered and authored by Bidzina Ivanishvili.”
Gakharia said Ivanishvili had been threatening him and his family “in various forms” for a long time, including publicly. He said he was not focusing on the perpetrators of the attack, but only on the “mastermind behind it” – Bidzina Ivanishvili, whom he described as “the main architect of violence” and “the main root of evil” in Georgia today.
At the end of the briefing, he again vowed, “I will do whatever it takes to ensure that Ivanishvili loses what he values most – money and power.”
Ivanishvili was accused on Monday in a London courtroom of “economic destruction” by lawyers for Georgian-British businessman Zaza Okuashvili, who is seeking nearly $50 million in lost profits and legal fees to date. Ivanishvili and his associates sought to destroy a string of Okuashvili’s businesses and personal wealth via means of intimidation, deception and conspiracy, taking advantage of his political influence in the country.
“Zaza Okuashvili finds himself unable to seek and obtain justice within Georgia, where due impartiality in any proceedings involving Bidzina Ivanishvili is, to put it mildly, highly questionable,” his lawyers said in court filings.
[...] , but Georgia's people deserve to vote on whether they want more proximity to the West or to Russia. Right? — javi2541997
Ah, gotcha. You are just another conspiracy nut such as the ones who assaulted the US Capitol building. — javi2541997
At most I suggested people in this thread were absorbing this information uncritically, exhibiting the reflexive, emotional response this type of media is meant to get out of them. — Tzeentch
3,350 is the number of people working in the field of culture and sports, to whom the founder of the Georgian Dream, entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili, has been paying monthly salaries out of his own pocket for many years.
If you consider Bidzina Ivanishvili a traitor, a dictator, dear ladies and gentlemen, please count how much money you received from this "traitor", "dictator" and "russoblud" as creative help, and return it back to him in full or at least in parts, monthly, exactly as he paid them to you. And then I may believe that you are real patriots and know how to be principled in deeds, and not just in words.
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