Protesters who support Ukraine’s populist Movement of New Forces claimed this week that the nation’s top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko lunged at their protest tent Monday night brandishing an ax.
Ukrainian authorities violently arrested and deported Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, to Poland on Monday, citing his lack of permission to enter the country.
Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets of Kiev on Sunday in support of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, arrested in the capital on Friday after accusing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration of widespread corruption.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the pro-West, stridently anti-Putin former president of Georgia, was reportedly arrested in Kiev, Ukraine late Friday, days after a crowd of supporters freed him from police custody by force.
The fallout from Ukraine’s dramatically failed attempt at arresting former Georgian president (and Ukrainian governor) Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday was a violent raid on supporters’ tent city in front of the nation’s parliament.
Former Georgian president – and former governor of Odessa, Ukraine – Mikheil Saakashvili escaped police custody on Tuesday after a crowd of hundreds of supporters dragged him out of the police car into which officers placed him after a raid on his home in Kiev.
Former Georgian President and Ukrainian Gov. Mikheil Saakashvili, exiled from Ukraine when current President Petro Poroshenko revoked his citizenship, re-entered the country on Sunday after a crowd of supporters pushed back border agents keeping him away.
KIEV, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Citing past praise by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his reforms, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili launched a new political party in Ukraine on Friday to fight corruption, just days after resigning bitterly as a
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov posted video online of his heated argument with Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and current governor of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.
The world and those in Odesa Oblast in Ukraine are still in shock that President Petro Poroshenko appointed ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as governor of the region.
