Bidzina Ivanishvili

Ivanishvili returns to politics for elections

Ivanishvili returns to politics for elections

Bidzina Ivanishvili will help the Georgian Dream to decisively defeat the opposition in the parliamentary elections, Gia Volsky, a representative of the ruling party, said

Ivanishvili returns to politics

Ivanishvili returns to politics

Georgia's former Prime Minister and founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili was elected the honorary Chair of the GD party. In his address at the congress meeting of the ruling party, Ivanishvili explained …

Kiev imposes sanctions on Ivanishvilli's family

Kiev imposes sanctions on Ivanishvilli's family

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has imposed sanctions on the inner circle of the ruling Georgian Dream party's founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili. The decree was published on October 20. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of …

Ivanishvili says Gakharia is a traitor

Ivanishvili says Gakharia is a traitor

Founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili, who left Georgian politics for the second time back in January 2021, has responded to media reports that the new political party founded by ex-PM Giorgi Gakharia …

Gakharia shakes up Georgian politics

Gakharia shakes up Georgian politics

Georgian politics looks set for its biggest shake up in a decade after former prime minister Giorgi Gakharia announces the launch of a new party, one that has already attracted defectors from the ruling Georgian Dream

New political force against Ivanishvili created in Georgia

New political force against Ivanishvili created in Georgia

Member of the Georgian Parliament and a former leader of the European Georgia opposition party Elene Khoshtaria has created a new political force Droa (It's Time). "State propaganda is constantly trying to convince us …

Protests in Georgia increase Saakashvili’s Influence

Protests in Georgia increase Saakashvili’s Influence

On March 1, European Council President Charles Michel met in Tbilisi with Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. Reportedly, the two sides were predominantly going to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic as …

Georgia after Garibashvili's second coming

Georgia after Garibashvili's second coming

Georgia’s political stage has lately got very hot: an arrest of the opposition figure Nika Melia, head of the “European Georgia” party associated with the exiled ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, with the party’s …

Nika Melia's arrest: opposition and Western diplomats' reaction

Nika Melia's arrest: opposition and Western diplomats' reaction

Yesterday, the Georgian opposition organised a rally after the arrest of the leader of the largest opposition party, the United National Movement, Nika Melia. Georgian police arrested a top opposition leader on February 23, using tear gas in a dawn raid on his party headquarters, further deepening a political crisis sparked by last year’s parliamentary elections, the outcome of which the opposition disputes, Emerging Europe writes

Has Ivanishvili really relinquished power?

Has Ivanishvili really relinquished power?

The founder and leader of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, announced he is leaving politics forever. In his last interview with Georgian public television, Ivanishvili underlined that he would no longer support GD, either as head of the party or even as a member. By this, he, of course, meant that GD would no longer have access to his vast financial resources

Kobakhidze appointed head of Georgian Dream

Kobakhidze appointed head of Georgian Dream

Former speaker of the Georgian Parliament Irakli Kobakhidze was appointed as the new chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party. The delegates to the party's political congress unanimously elected him to the post of chairman. 400 …