Mikhail Saakashvili. Why does Jewish son-in-law Misha hate Jews? Marital status of Mikhail Saakashvili wife children

Born on December 21, 1967 in Tbilisi. The family surname - Saakashvili clearly betrays the Armenian origin of its bearer, initially the surname sounded like Sahakyan, but Mikhail Nikolozovich himself in every possible way refutes his relationship with the neighboring people and does not cease to make excuses - I am Georgian. The maternal clan - Alasania, by the way, is also of Armenian origin. Saakashvili himself identifies himself as a Georgian Mengrel.

I grew up in the old and perhaps the most prestigious district of Tbilisi. Saakashvili's mother had a reputation as a good specialist in the history of medieval Georgia, knew the Turkish language well and made up her entire scientific name on conscientious translations and editorial comments of numerous Turkish (Turkish-speaking) sources relating to the history of Georgia of that period. The linguistic abilities of the mother were also passed on to the son, Misha from childhood, while the boys were chasing the ball and climbing trees, sat with tutors - he taught English and French once. The latter was taught to him by some ancient representative of either a noble or a princely family, who previously lived in exile in Paris, from whom he picked up some manners along the way - he learned how to use forks, spoons correctly, mastered the basics of etiquette. Later it came in handy... Saakashvili is quite fluent in English, French, Russian, Ukrainian and Spanish. Some time after the divorce from Mikhail's father, his mother remarried - also to an intellectual, a professor of physiology, but Misha did not have a trusting relationship with him. The boy harbored a fierce resentment against his own father, and even to this day he angrily rejects his father's gifts. At the same time, it did not work out with his stepfather either. He, his stepfather, turned out to be a rare bore and, in response to the timid pranks of a generally obedient and clumsy little boy, he often sank to a strong cuff, for nothing that he was a professor. The only one with whom Mikhail has developed strong personal ties is with his younger half-brothers David and George. It was on younger relatives, commanding and urging them, that he practiced his "leadership" style of behavior.

In his youth, Mikhail Saakashvili was fond of swimming, music, basketball, and also studied English and French. In high school, he was deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of school No. 51, where he studied. In 1984 he graduated from secondary school No. 51 in Tbilisi with a gold medal.

The glorious 80s is the heyday of the so-called "guild" production and trade. Georgia had its own intra-union specialization - carnations, flowers were transported to Moscow by planes and the logistics of all these goods, "protection" and organization of transportation, in combination with the main work, and the crafty and well-connected uncle Timur was engaged.

My uncle had extensive necessary acquaintances and friends in a similar department in Ukraine. How much did the definition of "nephew" in the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv University named after T. Shevchenko cost in the sense of a specific amount, history is silent. This university was not so much prestigious in terms of the level of education as "thieves", especially in the provincial scale of Ukraine. Actually, diplomats for the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs were trained, of course, by Moscow metropolitan universities - MGIMO, orientalists - by the Institute of Asia and Africa at Moscow State University. "Kyivians" specialized in the production of qualified technical personnel - translators. The Faculty of International Relations at Kiev University was established simultaneously with the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry back in 1944. I. Stalin then specifically went to endowing the two most faithful union republics - Ukraine and Belarus - with an increased status, seeking their inclusion in the UN as a sovereign state. When the special need for the UN votes of Ukraine and Belarus disappeared, the status of "sovereignty" began to be lowered, the faculty was "lowered" into the department in 1955, but ten years later the faculty was revived under the name "Faculty of International Relations and International Law". Actually, Misha Saakashvili did not enter the institute, but the faculty of international relations; he became an institute in the summer of 1988.

It was through uncle's connections that Mikho was able to get a targeted assignment to the Kyiv University on behalf of the Georgian Foreign Ministry and successfully coordinate his candidacy in the district committee and the city committee of the party. Such was the procedure for selecting applicants for this educational institution - applicants "from the street" were turned away at the stage of submitting documents.

But even at the exam, and Misha, as an excellent student, took only one profile and upon receiving the “five” he was immediately enrolled, his uncle made sure. According to available information, Saakashvili's admission had a hand in the then deputy. head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Gennady Udovenko is a friend of his uncle for barbecue and fun in Tbilisi. Gennady Iosifovich Udovenko himself, by the way, also graduated from this university.

It is worth saying a little more about Gennady Udovenko. Born in 1931. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1959. In 1965-71 - the first business trip to the UN. In 1980-85. - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 1980-92 - Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN. In 1992-94 - Ambassador to Poland. In 1994-98 - head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and, at the same time, in 1997-98 - president of the 52nd session of the UN General Assembly. In 1999, he headed the People's Movement of Ukraine after the mysterious death in a car accident of the recognized leader of the nationalists V. Chernovil. In the spring of 2003, he handed over the reins of government to Boris Tarasyuk. Since 1998 - deputy and head of the Human Rights Committee of the Rada. In the 2002 elections - No. 3 in the block of V. Yushchenko "Our Ukraine".

The "godfather" of Misha's career, Uncle Timur, deserves special mention. Even today he is a very influential, albeit "shadow" figure in Georgian politics. After the free and satisfying Georgian Foreign Ministry, with independence and the beginning of Georgian chaos, my uncle, not without the help of influential friends and patrons, moved to work in ... New York, at the headquarters of the United Nations. At first he was listed there as a petty clerk in the Disarmament Committee, but, with his talents, he gradually made his way "into people" and currently holds a fairly influential post of senior adviser to the UN secretariat and is considered almost the leading specialist on transport issues in general and transport transit , in particular.

Naturally, he does not forget about his "small homeland" and never deprives his younger relative of attention - it was with his uncle's suggestion that Miho ended up studying in America after the Kyiv university, and then he got a job there.

The uncle also helps today, being an informal lobbyist for Misha's interests in the United States and an intermediary in all kinds of confidential negotiations and money transfers. Uncle generously supplied money, Misha did not even appear in the hostel, he lived in rented apartments in the city center.

It was during his student years that new dark spots appeared in Misha's biography. A bit of arithmetic: I graduated from school in 1984 and immediately entered the institute, which I successfully graduated from in 1992 at the Department of International Law of Professor V. Butkevich, the term of study was 5 years. Where were 3 years "lost", where did they fall?

Already in his first year, right before the exams of the second session, he was expelled from the Komsomol. Misha himself assures that he was expelled for "politics", but he speaks about this extremely vaguely, allegedly, he participated in some kind of "movement", distributed some kind of "dissident" publications. What he could actually be doing in such a political way is an unanswered question.

In fact, everything is much more banal and simpler, if for politics, then Misha would certainly have been kicked out not only from the Komsomol, but also from the institute. It was not politics that was to blame, but the trail of the Tbilisi "video-porn-scandal". The institute first received an anonymous letter, and then a completely official letter from one of the "victims" with a request to deal with Saakashvili's unscrupulous and immoral past. In Tbilisi, they generally liked to write anonymous letters ... Misha desperately justified himself at the institute's Komsomol bureau, denied everything, swore by his mother that he was not guilty of anything brought against him, but the verdict was harsh - the red book of a member of the Komsomol was taken away, which significantly made it difficult, but in fact, put an end to it, for the rest of your career. There was no question of any decent distribution to a non-Komsomol member - a diplomat. He would simply not be released abroad. Ahead really loomed and expulsion from the university. It must be remembered that in the yard then stood 1985-86,

And then Uncle Timur suggested a way out - the shame must be washed away ... by serving in the army. There was a military department at the institute, translators were taken care of and they were not shaved into soldiers, Misha himself wrote a statement and went completely voluntarily, and one can believe his official biography.

Like any university that trained workers related to work abroad, the Kyiv Institute of International Relations was under a specific cap of the KGB and was assigned to serve according to a departmental profile - to the border troops of the KGB of the USSR.

Having already come to power, Misha appeared at one of the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers in a military field "camouflage" and standing up for all the ministers who did not serve in the army, he ordered them to be urgently sent to monthly military training camps. All this, as usual, in front of television cameras and photographic lenses, the President did not forget to remind about his "heroic" military career.

In fairness, it should be noted that this time Mikhail was not disingenuous - he really wore a green cap and shoulder straps with the mean initials "PV" - he served the entire "urgent" clerk at the headquarters of one of the border detachments in Ukraine he loved - he drew a wall newspaper, helped the demobilized to draw up demobilization albums - Mikhail has a beautiful handwriting with numerous monograms and curlicues characteristic of the Georgian alphabet - Misha managed to perform in frontier amateur performances. Having recovered in the Komsomol, he was active along the Komsomol line - he was elected to the Komsomol committee of the unit, led political information ... That was the end of the "service".

After the army, a mature and fully rehabilitated Komsomol member and activist was hospitably received by his native university - "an excellent student, Komsomol member, athlete and simply handsome" (as one modern Ukrainian journalist wrote about him), Misha Saakashvili continued his studies at KIMO.

Somewhat earlier and simultaneously with Mikhail, almost all the "patriarchs" of modern Ukrainian nationalism, convinced and irreconcilable "Westerners" - the heads of the modern Ukrainian Foreign Ministry - Gennady Udovenko and Boris Tarasyuk, both of whom have become today democratic oppositionists - "Yushchenko" and leaders of the nationalist " Rukh-1", Anton Buteyko - 1st Deputy. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and until 1999 - Ambassador to the United States, now - the ideologist of the Ukrainian People's Party - "Rukh" Y. Kostenko; the head of this party, Yuriy Kostenko, who is also a member of the permanent delegation of the Ukrainian parliament to PACE and is also the head of the People's Movement of Ukraine-2, now Yushchenko's first deputy in the Our Ukraine opposition bloc; Sergei Golovaty - ex-head of the Ministry of Justice, since January 2002 - chairman of the PACE Regulations Committee, since April of the same year - deputy chairman of the political group "Liberal Democrats and Reformers" PACE, deputy of the Rada from Our Ukraine, an active participant in all recent "revelations" of Kuchma - the Gongadze case, the scandal with audio recordings, etc.; Oleksandr Motsik is an ex-ambassador to Turkey and since 2001 - deputy. head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a supporter of the creation of the United Ukrainian Local Church under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople; Oleksandr Maidannik - ex-ambassador to Israel, Argentina and South America, L. Kuchma's press secretary, deputy. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Finland.

After graduating from the university, Mikhail ended up in the army for a few more months - now as an officer, and then moved to his homeland - got a job as a legal consultant in the State Committee of Georgia for the Protection of Human Rights, created at the initiative of the "dissident" President Z. Gamsakhurdia.

In 1992, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of International Law of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. According to some reports, in 1988 Saakashvili was expelled from the Komsomol and expelled from the university for distributing dissident literature. He was able to recover at the university only after passing in 1989-90. urgent service in the border troops of the KGB of the USSR. After graduation, he returned to Georgia, where he worked as a legal consultant in the State Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. Having received a grant, he went to the Strasbourg International Institute of Human Rights. A year later, as a US State Department scholarship holder, he was sent to study at Columbia University (New York), where in 1994 he received a master's degree in law. Studied at George Washington University in Washington DC, trained at the Academy of European Law in Florence and at the Hague Academy of International Law.

He worked at the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights in Oslo, then at the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, which dealt with the legal support of American oil and gas projects in the CIS.

Political dossier

In 1995 Mikhail Saakashvili returned to Georgia, he was invited by Zurab Zhvania. Mikhail was elected a member of parliament from the Union of Citizens of Georgia party. At that time, she supported President Eduard Shevardnadze. A year later, Saakashvili is already the chairman of the parliamentary committee on legal and constitutional issues. And in 1998, the politician took the helm of the parliamentary faction of the Union of Citizens of Georgia.

Since the beginning of 2000, Mikhail Saakashvili has been the republic's representative in PACE. A little later, he was appointed Minister of Justice in the office of State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili. Because of the appointment, he refused the mandate of the deputy.

In the fall of 2001, Saakashvili resigned and accused Eduard Shevardnadze and his colleagues of corruption, created the opposition organization National Movement. It eventually included 20,000 people. In 2002, he became chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Tbilisi.

On November 3, 2003 parliamentary elections were held in the republics. The opposition blocs did not recognize their result. As a result, the opposition with roses captured the parliament building. At the end of November 2003, after protests organized by the National Movement party, together with Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burdzhanadze, power changed in Georgia. The motive of the revolution was that the population was convinced of the falsification of the election results. Shevardnadze eventually resigned.

Some circles began to be dissatisfied with Saakashvili's policy already in 2007. This led to massive opposition protests in Tbilisi on 2 November. As a result, 508 people were hospitalized. Moreover, on the same day, special forces occupied the office of the Imedi TV channel, which was owned by opposition oligarch Badri Patarkaishvili. The channel stopped broadcasting for a while.

On November 25, Saakashvili decided to resign and called early elections for January 5, 2008. And they won again. After that, mass opposition protests again took place, but no one dispersed them.

On October 1, 2012, parliamentary elections were held in Georgia. As a result, the opposition "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia" won more than half of the seats in the Georgian parliament. The day after the vote, Mikheil Saakashvili acknowledged that the United National Movement party had lost the election and added that it was moving into opposition. At the same time, the leader of the opposition bloc said that the investigation into the death of Zurab Zhvania, the Prime Minister of Georgia, should be resumed. According to one version, Mikheil Saakashvili was involved in this.

A little later, reports began to appear that Saakashvili's associates were leaving Georgia, who feared prosecution by the opposition.

At the end of October 2013, without waiting for the end of the presidential term, he flew to Brussels. In December, he got a job as a teacher at the American Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he lectures on European statehood.

Ukraine

He took an active part in Euromaidan.

A family

Roelofs Sandra Elisabeth - Born December 23, 1968. There is a lot of information on the net that Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs (Sandra Eduardovna Roelovsky) is a girl from a Jewish family who emigrated to Holland from Czechoslovakia. And in Denmark, for some reason, they remembered the pornographic past of Saakashvili's wife. The Danish magazine Dagsblat reports that the wife of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili starred in a Norwegian pornographic publication in her youth. However, I remember that Sarkozy's wife - the first lady of France - was mentioned in a similar context. In 1991 she graduated with honors from the Brussels Institute of Foreign Languages ​​with a degree in French and Spanish interpreter. In addition, he is fluent in Dutch, German, English, Russian, Georgian.

Her first visit to Georgia took place even before the "fatal" acquaintance with Mikheil Saakashvili - in the summer of 1992, when she, being an employee of the Red Cross, visited Georgia on a humanitarian mission and brought over twenty kilograms of garden seeds from Holland. And the following year, 1993, they met in a university cafe in Strasbourg, at the International Institute of Human Rights: Mikhail did an internship here, and Sandra came to the courses on the eve of her departure to Somalia, where she was to defend these very rights.

He seemed to her an elegant young man. Getting acquainted, he said: "I'm from Georgia, but not the one in the USA." According to Sandra's memoirs, young people fell in love with each other at first sight.

So the Somalis were not lucky - Sandra did not go to this country to protect the rights of citizens, but in New York, where she worked at Columbia University and a Dutch law firm. Here their marriage was registered - four months later. The wedding took place in a church in Tbilisi. And they spent their honeymoon in Kyiv, where her husband studied at the Faculty of Law.

In 1996, the couple returned to Georgia, where Sandra Roelofs E. worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She also worked as a correspondent, covering Dutch, Georgian political and socio-economic topics.

Apparently very capable of languages, Sandra learned the Georgian language (and its Mengrelian dialect) in record time. And she literally conquered the Georgians, very emotional and sentimental people, who called her the Dutch rose - a symbol of the new Georgia and, according to stories, cried while listening to her on television, especially when she sang "Suliko" in Georgian.

But, as you know, from love to hate - one step. And it seems that someone in Georgia has already done it. Publications appeared in the media accusing the President of Georgia "of spending people's money on family vacations."

"According to the information we have, Saakashvili's wife Sandra Roelofs and her children spent the New Year holidays in Florida in one of the most expensive hotels," Iosif Shatberashvili, Secretary General of the Labor Party, said at a briefing. According to him, the vacation in the United States of America cost Saakashvili's family more than 15,000 dollars a day. And this is during the global crisis! - the people were indignant. When the majority of top officials in various countries are trying to cut their costs. What can I say: the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II herself suggested that the entire royal family tighten their belts. And here it is!

Now she is raising two sons - Eduard and Nikoloz, born in 1995 and 2005, and is actively involved in charity work. The Soho Foundation (www.soco.ge), founded by her, is a non-governmental charitable organization that provides assistance to children, refugees, single pensioners, large families. Since 2007, the foundation has been involved in reproductive health and newborn care.

• Father Nikoloz Saakashvili, a doctor by education, divorced a few months before the birth of his son.
• Mother - Giuli Alasania, professor-historian, specialist in the history of medieval Georgia, Turkologist, chairman of the public union "House of Friendship of Georgia and Azerbaijan", owns a share in many educational institutions of Georgia, including the one founded in 1995 at the initiative of the Prime Minister of Turkey International Black Sea University, business partner of F. Gulen. Subsequently, she married Zurab Kometiani.
• Stepfather Zurab Kometiani was the chairman of the scientific council of the Beritashvili Institute of Physiology and wrote more than 100 scientific papers, died on January 24, 2012 at the age of 77.
• He was brought up by his mother, stepfather (professor of psychology) and maternal uncle (Temur Alasania, a diplomat who worked at the UN). Both of Mikhail's maternal great-grandfathers were repressed in 1937, but released. Mikhail's wife, in her book Confessions of an Idealist, explains the release by the fact that one of them, a major industrialist, financed Koba's activities before the October Revolution, and his great-grandmother hid him from the police. But it is known that there was also a material reason: Mikheil Saakashvili's grandfather worked in the Georgian NKVD under Lavrenty Beria. Mikheil Saakashvili, the only son of his mother, has half-brothers on his father's side, for example, brother David.

Mikhail Nikolaevich (Nikolozovich) Saakashvili- President of Georgia (2004-2007, 2008-2013), Ukrainian politician, chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration (May 30, 2015 - November 9, 2016). Having a reputation as a political adventurer, Mikheil Saakashvili cannot yet return home to Georgia, as criminal cases have been opened against him there, however, news about Saakashvili's adventures in Ukraine is received regularly. Mikhail was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship, but after the change of power, the new president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, returned him to Saakashvili.

Childhood and education of Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili was born on December 21, 1967 in Tbilisi. The parents of the future president divorced before he was born. Saakashvili prefers to be called Mikhail Nikolaevich in Russian, after the politician moved to Ukraine, local news began to call him Mikh e ill. Saakashvili himself opposed this.

Father - Nikoloz Saakashvili- of Armenian origin, a doctor by education. The biography on Wikipedia says that Mikhail's grandfather, also Mikhail Saakashvili, was the founder and rector of a medical university.

Mother - Giuli Alasania(born in 1946) is a professor-historian, a specialist in the history of Turkey. Engaged in active social activities. Giuli Alasania owns shares in many educational institutions in Georgia.

Mikheil Saakashvili was brought up by his stepfather in addition to his mother Zurab Kometiani, professor-psychologist, chairman of the scientific council of the Institute of Physiology named after Beritashvili and mother's brother, colonel of the KGB of the USSR Temur Alasania.

Mishiko Saakashvili studied easily, graduated from high school with a gold medal. Parents paid great attention to education and sports. During his school years, Mikhail and his friends played basketball, skied, and swam. In order for her son to thoroughly study foreign languages, Saakashvili's mother hired the best tutors for him. In addition to the Georgian language, Mikheil Saakashvili speaks Mingrelian, English, French, Russian, Ukrainian and Spanish.

In the photo: Mikheil Saakashvili with classmates and his first teacher

Politics fascinated Mikhail from childhood and youth. Saakashvili entered the Faculty of International Law of the Institute of International Relations of the Kyiv University Taras Shevchenko and graduated with honors in 1992. In 1989-1990, Saakashvili served in the frontier troops of the KGB of the USSR.

Mikheil Saakashvili's career in politics

Saakashvili began his career in 1992 in Georgia, Mikhail worked as a legal consultant in the State Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. Having become a US State Department scholarship holder, Saakashvili was sent to Columbia University (New York) to improve his education. In 1994, Mikhail Nikolozovich received a master's degree in law. In addition, Saakashvili trained at the Strasbourg Institute of Human Rights, as well as at the Academy of European Law in Florence and at the Hague Academy of International Law. Mikheil Saakashvili even managed to work at the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights in Oslo, and then at the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.

In 1995, Mikheil Saakashvili was invited to return to Georgia by one of his friends - Zurab Zhvania. Saakashvili became a member of parliament from Zhvania's "Union of Citizens of Georgia" party. In 1998, Mikhail Nikolozovich became the leader of the parliamentary faction of the Union of Citizens of Georgia. And since 1999, Saakashvili was elected to the parliament of a new convocation from the CUG. But in 2000, Mikhail refused the deputy mandate, as he was appointed Minister of Justice in the cabinet Giorgi Arsenishvili.

Recognition of the deputy powers of the former Minister of Justice Mikheil Saakashvili was discussed at the plenary session of the Georgian Parliament, 2001. Pictured: former Minister of Justice Mikheil Saakashvili (left) and former Speaker of Parliament Zurab Zhvania (Photo: David Khizanishvili/SAKINFORMI/TASS)

In September 2001, Mikhail Saakashvili resigned. He accused Eduard Shevardnadze and members of his government in corruption. Saakashvili soon created the opposition political organization National Movement, which subsequently grew to 20,000 members. Since 2002, Mikheil Saakashvili has been chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Tbilisi.

In the photo: Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze (right) during a meeting with opposition leaders: the leaders of the Burjanadze-Democrats opposition bloc Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burdzhanadze (first and third from left in the picture) and the head of the right-wing radical National Movement bloc Mikheil Saakashvili (second left), 2003 (Photo: Eye of Georgia / TASS)

"Rose Revolution" - M. Saakashvili as President of Georgia

Since the end of 2003, the "National Movement" has been engaged in protest actions. Saakashvili was supported by the Speaker of Parliament Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania. They were able to convince the population of the falsification of the results of the parliamentary elections held on November 2, 2003. The so-called “Rose Revolution” took place in Georgia. As a result of this revolution, new presidential elections in Georgia took place in 2004, and Mikheil Nikolozovich Saakashvili won with 96.27% of the vote.

Pictured: leader of the National Movement opposition bloc Mikheil Saakashvili (pictured left) after talks with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, who resigned, 2003 (Photo: Eye of Georgia/TASS)

Having become president, Mikheil Saakashvili immediately showed himself to be an anti-Russian politician. Russian-Georgian relations began to deteriorate sharply. Saakashvili accused Russia of supporting separatist sentiments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Mikhail Nikolozovich demanded to replace the Russian peacekeeping contingent there with NATO troops.

Photo: Mikheil Saakashvili's inauguration ceremony. The new President of Georgia receives a blessing from the Catholicos ї Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II (from left to right). The inauguration ceremony of the new president of Georgia, 2004 (Photo: Eye of Georgia / TASS)

In August 2004, it came to bloody clashes. Georgian troops unsuccessfully tried to establish control over the strategic heights around Tskhinvali, but, having lost several dozen people, they were withdrawn.

Pictured: mass clashes between supporters of Aslan Abashidze and Mikheil Saakashvili took place in Batumi, Adjara, 2004 (Photo: Seyran Baroyan/TASS)

On January 25, 2006, Mikheil Saakashvili signed a decree on Georgia's withdrawal from the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries due to the fact that Georgia has set a course for joining NATO and will not be able to be in two military formations at the same time.

Since 2004, Mikheil Saakashvili has been carrying out economic reforms in Georgia, which he later set as an example for post-Soviet countries, in particular, Ukraine. Thus, Saakashvili's Georgia played the role of the "advanced collective farm" of the West. In 2005-2007, Georgia's GDP grew at a rate of over 9% per year, according to the politician's biography on Wikipedia. At the same time, according to official data, the unemployment rate increased from 11.5% in 2003 to 16.5% in 2008.

In the photo: the leaders of the Commonwealth countries during the summit of the CIS heads of state in the building of the National Library. From left to right - CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir Rushailo and the presidents of Uzbekistan - Islam Karimov, Russia - Vladimir Putin, Kyrgyzstan - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Georgia - Mikheil Saakashvili, Azerbaijan - Ilham Aliyev, Belarus - Alexander Lukashenko, Armenia - Robert Kocharyan, Kazakhstan - Nursultan Nazarbayev , Moldova - Vladimir Voronin, Tajikistan - Emomali Rakhmonov and Ukraine - Viktor Yushchenko, 2006 (Photo: Nikolai Lazarenko / TASS)

In 2008, GDP fell from 12.3% to 2.4%, industrial production fell by 8.5%. At the same time, Saakashvili was credited with fighting grassroots corruption, liberalizing taxes and small businesses.

In the photo: Presidents of Georgia and Azerbaijan Mikheil Saakashvili and Ilham Aliyev (left to right) before the opening ceremony of the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. The President of Azerbaijan presented Mikheil Saakashvili with a carpet depicting his portrait, 2005 (Photo: Alexander Klimchuk/TASS)

However, not everyone was satisfied with Saakashvili's activities. On November 2, 2007, massive opposition protests began in Tbilisi. Mikheil Saakashvili gave the order to disperse the protesters.

But these events forced Mikheil Saakashvili to make a voluntary decision to resign. Mikhail Nikolozovich announced early presidential elections, in which on January 5, 2008 he again won.

The role of Mikheil Saakashvili in the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia

The armed conflict in South Ossetia - a military confrontation between Georgia on the one hand and Russia, along with the unrecognized republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other - occurred in August 2008. On the night of August 7-8, 2008, Georgian troops launched a massive artillery shelling of the capital of South Ossetia, the city of Tskhinvali, and the surrounding areas, although before that Saakashvili announced that in the name of peace he was ready to cease fire unilaterally and start any negotiations. The official reason for this, according to the statements of the Georgian side, was the violation of the ceasefire regime by South Ossetia, which, in turn, claims that Georgia was the first to open fire. On August 8, 2008, Russia officially joined the conflict on the side of South Ossetia as part of an operation to force the Georgian side to peace. On August 12, 2008, Russia announced the successful completion of the operation.

Refugees from Tskhinvali on the way to Java region (pictured left); in one of the destroyed districts of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, 2008 (Photo: Sergey Uzakov/Valery Matytsin/TASS)

According to British journalist J. Steele(The Guardian of August 25, 2008), “the biggest lie (in order to mislead foreign opinion) was Saakashvili’s attempt to whitewash the fact that he provoked the crisis by shelling the capital of South Ossetia, which killed dozens of civilians and 15 Russian peacekeepers.

In 2009, the International Commission, investigating the circumstances of the five-day war in South Ossetia in August on behalf of the European Union, received information that allowed Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to be recognized as the instigator of the conflict. The Spiegel Online news noted that the commission's experts drew attention to the documented statement of the Georgian general Mamuki Kurashvili, which on August 7, 2008 announced that Georgia had decided to "restore constitutional order throughout the region." The general said this into the camera lens during an interview with the Georgian TV channel Rustavi-2. Kurashvili's statement almost verbatim repeats Order No. 2 dated the same date on the Armed Forces of Georgia, which was intercepted by Russian special services and handed over to the commissions. Then, on the night of August 8, Georgian troops stormed South Ossetia.

Georgia. August 6, 2008. Russian Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko and commander of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent Mamuka Kurashvili (from left to right) on the Georgian-Ossetian border (Photo: Alexander Klimchuk / TASS)

In 2015, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague decided to initiate an investigation into the events that took place in August 2008 in South Ossetia, as it was reported in the news, having studied the materials provided by the Russian side, it was decided that during the conflict the Georgian side had committed a number of war crimes, in connection with which the current governor of Odessa, former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili can become the central figure of the investigation.

Former Deputy Chairman of the PACE Monitoring Committee from Georgia Elene Tevdoradze She did not rule out that the data contained in the materials could indeed allow Mikheil Saakashvili to be held accountable for the conflict in South Ossetia. In this case, he could face from 30 years in prison to life.

In 2015, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov explained that he called "fucking lunatic" ("fucking lunatic") Saakashvili in a conversation with a British colleague David Miliband, quoting one of the European politicians whom he met on August 12, 2008 during the armed conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia. A diplomat who arrived from Georgia told Lavrov: "I've just come from Tbilisi, Saakashvili is such and such a lunatic."

In 2017, the former speaker of the Georgian parliament, Nino Burjanadze, accused former head of state Mikheil Saakashvili, saying that he was responsible for starting the war in August 2008. According to her, on the eve of the start of hostilities, Saakashvili assured that Georgian troops would be able to capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, overnight.

Criminal cases against Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia

At the end of October 2013, Mikhail Saakashvili, without waiting for the end of his presidential term, flew to Brussels and soon got a job as a teacher at the American Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he lectured on European statehood.

In the photo: ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili (center) during a press conference, Ukraine, Kyiv, December 7, 2013 (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS)

Meanwhile, Georgia began to analyze the activities of the former president. At home, several criminal cases were initiated against Saakashvili at once. The ex-president was put on the interstate wanted list. The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia charged Mikheil Saakashvili with embezzlement of $5 million of public funds and abuse of power during the dispersal of the rally on November 7, 2007, with illegal intrusion into the building of the Imedi TV channel and misappropriation of the property of a businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili".

Photo: ZUMAPRESS.com/Global Look Press

In December 2015, the Odessa deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Dmitry Golubov complained in parliament about the “circus troupe of the racketeer Saakashvili”, stated, in particular, that the Odessa governor was engaged in racketeering and extortion. “Large enterprises and businessmen receive letters from his adviser with a request to provide charitable assistance in the amount of 2.5 million hryvnias and gratitude for their attention and understanding,” and a Georgian prosecutor and a Georgian policeman come to those who do not want to pay, the press noted.

In January 2016, Mikheil Saakashvili caused a major scandal by posting classified information about the Ukrainian military stationed in Donbass on the Internet. Saakashvili visited the territory of the "anti-terrorist operation", met with the fighters of the "Storm" battalion, and also photographed the positions of checkpoints and an operational map, and later posted all this on the Internet. The military of Ukraine was outraged to the limit, sarcastically calling Saakashvili's actions "professionalism of the highest degree."

The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, called Saakashvili a paranoid person who should be judged, and, in his opinion, the ex-president of Georgia usually acts under the influence of drugs.

In the fall of 2017, a number of Ukrainian politicians sued ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. Lawsuits were filed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, head of the State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov and deputies of the faction "People's Front" Sergey Pashinsky and Andrey Ivanchuk. The mentioned officials and deputies decided in this way to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation.

Return of Mikheil Saakashvili to Ukraine

On December 9, Saakashvili announced an indefinite hunger strike in the pre-trial detention center. “He said that he announced the beginning of an indefinite hunger strike. He also said that he refuses any forced feeding. If a preventive measure in the form of arrest for 60 days is applied to him, he will continue the hunger strike even more, ”the politician’s lawyer Ruslan Chernolutsky was quoted as saying.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv refused to arrest the ex-president of Georgia, after which the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine promised to appeal the release of Mikheil Saakashvili.

In December, supporters of the former governor of the Odessa region tried to break into the palace, blew up pyrotechnics and started fights with members of the National Guard. 60 employees of the National Guard were injured. The US Embassy in Ukraine condemned the attempt to storm the October Palace in Kyiv, undertaken the day before by supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili.

On December 21, the authorities of the Netherlands granted the request of the former president of Georgia, the ex-governor of the Odessa region, and now the leader of the Movement of New Forces, Mikheil Saakashvili, for a visa.

On February 12, Mikheil Saakashvili was detained in Ukraine by people wearing State Border Service jackets - this happened in a restaurant. Former President of Georgia

On December 4, until recently the President of Georgia, presidential candidate from the ruling party Mikheil Saakashvili addressed the students of Tbilisi State University. He spoke, as always, a lot and passionately, promised, as always, a lot and quickly. However, it is not his speech itself that is interesting, but what happened after the meeting.

As Saakashvili was leaving the university building, accompanied by his bodyguards, his eyes fell on a group of students who had staged a protest near the entrance. In fact, they protested against the fact that they were not allowed to meet with the “father of the nation” (that is, they apparently still wanted to talk with the ex-president), but either something in their young minds jumped, then did you want to avenge the insults more painfully ... In a word, there was an embarrassment: when Saakashvili was already getting into the limousine waiting for him, one of the demonstrators loudly shouted: “Badri is the president!” (for those who don't know:Badri Patarkatsishvili - was then alone of the main opponents of the incumbent president, a Georgian oligarch, who owned the Imedi TV company, which was banned by the authorities, was hiding in Israel to avoid reprisals).

For Saakashvili, the mention of his main enemy, and even in such a context, was apparently comparable to a slap in the face. At least the "democrat", who instantly changed in his face, gritting his teeth, threw out to his guards: "Get this Jew out of here!" Here's an interesting thing that happened...

At the same time, Mikhail Nikolayevich did not take into account that by that time one of the TV cameras had not yet been turned off and this incident was documented. And then everything was as always: late in the evening this entry appeared on one of the Internet sites, but it did not last long - in the morning, December 5, it was not possible to find it. Apparently, the relevant intelligence agencies tried to localize the spread of scandalous news. But it was already too late: this phrase about the “Jew”, thrown into the hearts of Mikheil Saakashvili, aroused unhealthy interest in journalistic circles. To put it mildly, it is surprising to hear this from the lips of an ardent Westerner and “democrat”! But you know, a good journalist is like a hunting dog: once you smell the smell of fried food, he will run around in circles, dig the ground, but he will find what he needs ...

No words, we had to run. We talked with a lot of people, rummaged through a bunch of archives, connected all our acquaintances. And as a result, the truth was revealed to us in all its simplicity and ugliness. However ... let's figure it out together - this story began many years ago.
So. Mikhail Nikolozovich (that's right: not "Nikolaevich", but "Nikolozovich") Saakashvili was born in Tbilisi on December 21, 1967, in a family of Georgian intellectuals. True, the word “family” in this case can be used very relatively - even before the birth of Mikhail, his father, the famous Tbilisi doctor Nikoloz Saakashvili, left his wife who was in an “interesting position” and left for another woman.

About that, the other, much could not be found out. But neighbors who lived on Vera (this is the area of ​​old Tbilisi where the future president grew up) recall that Mikhail Saakashvili's mother, Giuli Alasania, quite often, in the presence of little Misha, cursed the “cursed Jewess” who took her husband away from families. And, apparently, maternal moods were also transferred to the son: the boy harbored a fierce resentment against the woman who deprived him of his own father.

However, this is not so important. The Saakashvili family interests us exclusively from the point of view of the national roots of the future president. The family surname "Saakashvili" clearly betrays the Armenian origin of its bearer. The book “Armenians in Georgia” by S.S. Mamulov tells about the grandfather of the future president of Georgia, M.G. Sahakyan, the rector of the Tbilisi Medical Institute, who in his youth was a member of the Armenian nationalist party “Dashnaktsutun”. Nevertheless, Mikhail Nikolozovich himself in every possible way refutes his kinship with the neighboring people and does not stop making excuses: “I am a Georgian.” The maternal clan “Alasania”, by the way, is also of Armenian origin. Both clans moved to Georgia relatively recently, in the 17th-18th century.

So, no matter what Saakashvili himself tells about himself, he does not have Georgian roots. Nevertheless, Mikhail Nikolozovich continues to identify himself as a Georgian Mengrel. He even forced his European wife to learn the Mengrelian language, which is noticeably different from Georgian, to prove his complete “Mingrelianness”.

Here it would be necessary to explain why our hero prefers to reckon himself among the Mengrels. The fact is that the Mengrels are considered not only the most ancient and indigenous population of Georgia, but also the most “pure” nation - they have never been under the Turks, nor under anyone else, have not intermarried with foreigners.
But that's just for reference. If Mikheil Sahakyan-Saakashvili wants to be a 100% Mingrelian Georgian, that's his right. But this desire to position oneself as a “purebred Aryan” is reminiscent of something, you see ...

But back to the biography of the future president. The next interesting moment refers to the 80s. Mikheil Saakashvili studies at the 51st school in Tbilisi and organizes his first business together with other high school students. In principle, this has already been written about, but for the uninitiated we will briefly describe.

A group of teenagers, using a video camera owned by one of them, filmed porn films with their own participation, and then the enterprising youngsters sold them on video cassettes. A good business and a sweet life continued until the father of one of the girls, in an amateur film acquired on the occasion, recognized his own daughter. The scandal broke out loud. The girl's father was not the last person in the city, the heroine of the film and other "actresses" were not yet 18, as well as the male half of the film group. That is why, probably, no one was imprisoned, but the fathers of the girls brutally flogged the whole company. Misha also got it, although he did not shine directly in the frame, he worked more on the part of the script and at the box office.

In a word, the scandal was quietly hushed up, but when Misha Saakashvili, who had graduated from high school, came to enter the law faculty of Tbilisi State University, in the selection committee he came face to face with the mother of one of his “movie heroines”, who was the chairman of this very commission ...
If any other woman were in the place of this woman, the result would be the same. But fate would have it that the door of the university in front of the nose of the future president was tightly slammed by a Jewish woman. Moreover, she did it so decisively that even Mishin's mother, a professor of history, despite extensive connections in the university environment, could not arrange her son for any of the faculties.
The only thing left for Professor Alasania was to angrily describe to her friends how “vindictive Jews” ruin the fate of her boy. The boy, of course, did not lag behind his mother ...
Mikhail's maternal uncle, Timur Alasania, came to the rescue, using all his connections to determine the "nephew" at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.

By the way, almost all the “patriarchs” of modern Ukrainian nationalism graduated from the Kiev Institute of International Relations, convinced and irreconcilable “Westerners” - Gennady Udovenko and Boris Tarasyuk, both of whom became leaders of the nationalist Rukh-1, Anton Buteyko - the current ideologist of the Rukh people’s party, Oleksandr Motsyk - a staunch anti-Semite, Russophobe, nationalist and autocephalist, a supporter of the creation of the United Ukrainian Local Church under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople, and many others.
It was in the midst of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, whose children, mainly, became Mikhail's fellow students, that the sprouts of terry nationalism had long been ripening. It was considered good form and self-evident life position in the crowd of future Ukrainian international diplomats to cover with the last words “Kids” and “Muscovites”. Mikhail greedily, like a sponge, absorbed the words and atmosphere of the Kyiv beau monde of the mid-80s.

Georgian-Mingrelian-Armenian Saakashvili was received favorably by Ukrainian nationalists, since he was 100% neither a “Jew” nor a “Muscovite”. And his sentimental stories about the suffering inflicted on him by the Jews quickly earned him the fame of “his boyfriend”. But Misha tried to please, tried his best ... He tried so hard that he even began to take part in the activities of the nationalist circle. The result is known: already in the first year, right before the exams of the second session, he was expelled from the Komsomol. Saakashvili himself assures that he was expelled for “politics”, but he speaks about this extremely vaguely, allegedly, he participated in
some “movement” (does not give a name), distributed some “dissident” publications (again, without specifying) ...

In fact, everything is very simple: we managed to get a photocopy of that "samizdat" brochure, on the distribution of which student Mikhail Saakashvili was caught. Even a cursory acquaintance makes it clear: anti-Semitic nonsense, and even illiterately written. However, the content of this "treatise" was enough to ensure that even in Ukraine (which does not particularly favor the Jews), Misha's red book of a member of the Komsomol was taken away.
In fact, it put an end to the rest of his career. And then, in the course of the proceedings, traces of the Tbilisi “video-porn-scandal” surfaced - so that the unscrupulous and immoral student Saakashvili really loomed ahead of being expelled from the university.
Powerful friends of the uncle intervened, suggested a way out: the shame must be washed away by military service. They also helped to get a good job: Saakashvili served for two years as a clerk at the headquarters of one of the border detachments in Ukraine, which he loved. In the same place, he was restored in the Komsomol, began to be active, was elected to the Komsomol committee of the unit, led political information ... That was the end of the “service”.
After the army, a matured and fully rehabilitated Komsomol member and activist was hospitably received by his native university - uncle's friends tried again. Meanwhile, the country was already in full swing rebuilding and choking on glasnost, national and nationalist movements were raising their heads, young people were seething with discussions and reveling in freedom ...

Saakashvili was still studying at the Kiev Institute of International Relations, when in Georgia the "Military Council" and "Mkhedrioni" exterminated Gamsakhurdia's supporters and brought Shevardnadze to power. The Georgian capital of 1992 was shaken by wars, political assassinations and economic ruin. Returning to his native city, Mikhail Nikolozovich quickly became convinced that nothing good awaited him there, and with the help of the same all-powerful uncle, he quickly left the boiling Tbilisi for quiet and calm Strasbourg, to the International Institute for Human Rights.

And there Misha also managed to impress. Where necessary - to assent, where necessary - to remain thoughtfully silent (although this turned out to be much more difficult). And besides, he found his niche - he painted Georgian passions for the international democratic community. Fortunately, no one really knew anything about Georgia, in Europe they had never heard of the political science searches of the repeatedly convicted Jaba Ioseliani and similar major Georgian politicians of that time.

Mouse's free chatter about "Georgian democracy" enjoyed a certain popularity, thanks to which he was able to wander from one campus to another for quite a long time, eating up on free grubs. In 1993, barely holding a diploma from the Strasbourg Institute, he left to study at Columbia University (USA), where he received a master's degree in law in 1994 (thanks again to Uncle Timur). Then, in 1995, he received a doctorate from George Washington University, then trained at the Academy of European Law in Florence and at the Hague Academy of International Law in Holland.

Was there any benefit to Misha himself in all this? Undoubtedly. Joking freely, he made useful contacts, rubbed himself in the reception rooms of various Western reputable institutions, learned to behave at ease at receptions and charity dinner parties, and most importantly, he was finally convinced of the “totalitarian nature of Jewish capitals”. “There are only Jews in all law firms,” Saakashvili wrote in a letter to one of his friends in the fall of 1994. “They don’t take you anywhere if you’re not like that. Whatever law you take, it was either invented or pushed through by Jewish lawyers. I’m starting to understand why they have all the money.”

But this is how he writes in Georgian, in intimate letters to friends. And while studying American and European jurisprudence, Misha prudently prefers to keep quiet about his difficult relations with the Jews, realizing that it is worth ruining his reputation just once - and everything will end immediately, once and for all.
Nevertheless, the half-starved 34-year-old “doctor of law”, who does not have a permanent job, does not give rest to the thoughts about the wealth and omnipresence of the Jews. And at this moment, perhaps the most incomprehensible event in the life of Mikheil Saakashvili takes place. At the Strasbourg courses on human rights, he accidentally meets Sandra Eduardovna Roelovsky, a young employee of one of the legal departments of the International Red Cross, a girl from a Jewish family who emigrated to Holland from Czechoslovakia. And when it turned out that Sandra has a solid chance of a good inheritance (her uncle, who does not have his own children, is the owner of a prosperous jewelry office), the young Georgian lawyer decided to rush into all serious troubles ...

They say that Saakashvili's mother, Giuli Alasania, was not at all enthusiastic about this novel. But people close to their family claim that in a telephone conversation, the son managed to convince his mother of the need and prospects for such a relationship. Be that as it may, but in distant Strasbourg, a young man, acting persistently in a Georgian way, achieved the favor of Sandra.

The deed was done. Marrying a Jewish woman opens the door to the world of "Jewish" jurisprudence for an unemployed lawyer. Almost immediately after the wedding, he gets a job at the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights in Oslo, and then moves to New York at the law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, specializing in legal support for the activities of reputable American campaigns in the so-called "risky" countries. "Pattersons" worked almost in all "hot spots" of our time from Sierra Leone and Zaire in Africa to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Asia. The firm is known for its rare “closeness” in terms of preventing information leakage and its willingness to take on the dirtiest jobs. In the 90s, the Pattersons already had an office in Moscow, were corporate members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia and actively worked in the telecommunications market, collaborating with such sharks of early Russian capitalism as V. Gusinsky, B. Berezovsky and others like them.

A certain Robert Scott Horton, also a Jew, by the way, is responsible for all the Patterson projects in the post-Soviet countries. It was he who took the young international lawyer Misha under his wing. The following fact speaks of Horton's influence and extensive connections - he actually kicks open the doors to the presidential palaces of a dozen states. By the way, this is the same Horton who acted as the official lawyer for Major of the Security Service of Ukraine Mykola Melnichenko, who fled to the United States, who took out and handed over to his new owners the audio transcripts of secret meetings with Kuchma.

In a word, "Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler" has long and tightly connected with the interests of a number of American businessmen "playing" in the markets of the post-Soviet states, primarily with the venerable philanthropist George Soros. And it just so happened that it was the “Pattersons” who became the legal partner of the “Kmara” (“Enough!”) movement, which became the initiator of the Georgian “Velvet Revolution” and brought to power in Georgia a modest Horton assistant, Mikheil Saakashvili ...

But it will be later, much later, but for now Saakashvili was brought together with the Secretary General of the Union of Citizens of Georgia Zurab Zhvania, the gray eminence in the retinue of Eduard Shevardnadze. Mikhail Nikolozovich briefly returns to his homeland and, having received the status of a member of the Georgian parliament, becomes Shevardnadze's confidant in the United States. And here comes another interesting story.

Trying to maintain his student connections, Saakashvili, at one of the receptions in the US Congress, runs into his old acquaintances from the institute. The Ukrainian “reformers” are carrying out the same mission here as Saakashvili himself – begging for loans for the “development of democracy”. But old acquaintances with Misha communicate very coldly, the reason is his marriage to a Jewish woman. Unlike mother, Ukrainian nationalists fail to explain all the ins and outs of such a step. By the way, they also open Mikhail Nikolozovich's eyes to the Jewish origin of his new friend and patron, Zurab Zhvania. Until that moment, Saakashvili did not even suspect that Zhvania's mother, who by that time had a passport in the name of Zakazan Antonyan-Zhvania, was previously called a little differently - Rimma Goldbaum. Witnesses of that conversation claim that Saakashvili was simply taken aback by this news...

Coincidence or not, a few weeks later Saakashvili's wife changes her surname to Roelofs. From that moment, in all official biographies, Sandra is called Dutch, although in fact only her acquired citizenship is Dutch.

Actually, it's all weird. Trying to understand the attitude of Mikheil Saakashvili to the “Jewish question”, we all the time came across absolutely contradictory facts. As soon as we began to be convinced that Mikhail Nikolozovich finally, it seems, resigned himself to the “omnipresence of the Jews,” we immediately found evidence of ever-increasing anti-Semitism in his deeds and actions.

Judge for yourself. year 2001. Almost daily, Saakashvili is in close contact with businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, who does not hide his Jewish faith. Moreover, according to a member of the Georgian parliament, Jemal Gogitidze, during his trip to the UK, Saakashvili visited the synagogue, trying to please the same Patarkatsishvili and his business partner, Boris Berezovsky. And in the same 2001, he, heading the Georgian Ministry of Justice, arranged a total purge in his department, declaring: “They set up a Jewish office from the ministry!” As a result: among the dismissed employees, more than half are Jews or have Jewish roots. In the same year, Saakashvili opposed the arrival of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Georgia, stating that "this half-Jew is accepted only in Baghdad."

Of course, this behavior did not go unnoticed by the public. At about the same time, interesting materials about Saakashvili's roots appeared in the newspaper of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Georgia - Mikhail's maternal grandfather, it turns out, served in the Georgian NKVD and actively helped Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria "deal" with the Jewish and Azerbaijani intelligentsia.

Saakashvili, after reading all this, was very upset. And then, as they say, his thoughtless statements caused discontent on the part of overseas partners. At least for the next few years, he did not touch on the "Jewish" topic.

The next moment of interest to us occurred already in June 2004. By that time Saakashvili had become president of Georgia and the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict began to heat up every day. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, headed by Irakli Okruashvili, was just waiting for a reason to unleash a large-scale aggression against the "recalcitrant" South Ossetia. The Ossetians tried not to give such a reason, so they decided to take a desperate step in Tbilisi - to try to provoke the “separatists” ...

To be honest, we never managed to find out who owned this idea - to send the first lady of the country to the Georgian village, located in the very heart of South Ossetia. The former high-ranking officer of the Georgian special services, who agreed to talk with us, did not directly say anything, but made it clear that such a decision was suggested to President Saakashvili. Another thing is interesting: how Mikhail Nikolozovich reacted to this proposal. Any self-respecting man in response to such an idea - to send his wife to the "bandit lair" - would probably give such an adviser in the face. But our hero behaved completely differently: he immediately agreed!

A couple of years ago, information was already leaking to the press that then, in June 2004, the persons accompanying Sandra were prepared in advance for a possible attack on the first lady's motorcade, and they were preparing not to shoot back ... but to take pictures! We even agreed with the foreign media in advance: leave a spot on the front pages - wait for sensational evidence of the pathological bloodthirstiness of the “Tskhinvali separatists”. Even then, everyone started talking about the baseness of Saakashvili, who substitutes his own wife for the sake of his own imperial ambitions. But now we are interested in something else. The same source, who used to be in the top leadership of the Georgian special services, told us that there was only one official who tried then, in 2004, to dissuade the president from this adventure. And when this, apparently, a decent man, explained to Saakashvili that his wife could die during this visit, in response, he heard from the president's lips: “So what?! I'm tired of this Jewish bitch!”

Now the whole world knows about the family problems of the Georgian president. It is today that every citizen of Georgia knows who Alana Gagloeva, Inga Grigolia, Marika Verulashvili are (just like every American knows about Monica Lewinsky). It is now known to everyone that Saakashvili's former love cooled down at the same time when he learned to do without his wife's rich relatives and their foreign connections. But then, in 2004, to demonstrate such contempt for your own wife, even if you had been bored for a long time? This is perhaps too...

...Here he is, Mikheil Nikolozovich Saakashvili, an Armenian trying to appear as a full-blooded Georgian. A man who hates the Jews and at the same time is ready to carry them in his arms if this promises him any benefits. A man who yesterday portrayed a mournful mine when visiting the Auschwitz memorial, and today approvingly pats on the shoulder a boy who draws an ugly swastika on the walls of houses in the Vadisubani microdistrict ...

From the editor. Such aspects of Mikheil Saakashvili's personality have not previously come into the field of our attention, therefore, the article submitted for your judgment reflects only separate, disparate facts. Only a few days have passed since December 4, that is, from the moment the video “Mikhail Saakashvili: Get rid of this Jew!” appeared on Internet blogs. Everything that we were able to discover in such a short time - we present to our readers. But the topic is not closed on this. When new documented evidence of Mikh. Saakashvili's anti-Semitic or ultra-nationalist behavior arrives at the editorial office, the conversation will certainly continue.

The question of whether or not the former first lady, the wife of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, Sandra Roelofs, will give up her deputy mandate, has become almost the main intrigue of the post-election period in Georgia, provoking heated public discussions about the role of Roelofs in the political fate of her husband and even in the political the history of the country as a whole.

Sandra Roelofs announced her decision to give up her parliamentary mandate at a meeting of the political council of Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM) party. According to the former first lady, she does not consider it possible for herself to work in a parliament formed as a result of "total falsification" of the election results. As an example, she cited cases of voter intimidation and outright fraud in the Zugdidi region, where she ran as a candidate in a single-mandate majoritarian district.

Sandra Roelofs announced her refusal to participate in the second round of elections almost immediately after her husband, the founder of the UNM, Mikheil Saakashvili, called on fellow party members to generally boycott the work of the new parliament. At the same time, Sandra Roelofs was number two on the party list. She won the MP mandate as one of 27 opposition parliamentarians who entered the legislature on the UNM party list.

The statement of the wife of Mikheil Saakashvili was commented by a member of the political council of the "United National Movement" David Darchiashvili:

- Of course, this did not please anyone, but the party continues to go its own way: the political council of the party decided to abandon the boycott of the parliament.

The ruling Georgian Dream party won a constitutional majority in the new legislature - more than three-quarters of the list of deputies. Member of Parliament for Georgian Dream George Zhorzholiani said that Mrs. Roelofs has nothing to do with politics and therefore her decision is quite logical:

Sandra Roelofs is not a political figure. She participated in the elections as a symbol representing Saakashvili. I think she has nothing to do in Parliament. In my opinion, she did the right thing by "resigning" following the example of her husband. As for , I want to warmly congratulate the inhabitants of Odessa and the entire Ukrainian people on this wonderful event.

She did the right thing by "resigning" following the example of her husband

And here is how the head of the Center for Global Studies evaluates the statement of the former first lady Nana Devdariani:

- The refusal of Sandra Roelofs from the deputy mandate is a continuation of the line of Saakashvili, who called on his fellow party members to follow the path of radicalization and give up mandates. But the National Movement took a different decision. This is an unprecedented case when the UNM disagrees with its founder. Sandra made a similar decision: she refused to participate in the second round, and from the mandate, which she received on the proportional list.

As for the “Sandra Roelofs phenomenon”, against the background of what Saakashvili did in the first years of his reign, there were more sympathies for Sandra than for her husband.

- You can say that you are an old opponent of Mikheil Saakashvili, but, apparently, Sandra Roelofs did not cause the same rejection in you?

- Well no. I do not share them at all, but I am talking about the mood in society. Sandra Roelofs and Mikheil Saakashvili are one. It is enough to read her book to understand: despite the fact that she was not directly associated with the crimes of Saakashvili, she does not cause much sympathy.

Sandra has done so much for Georgia that many Georgian women could not do

The head of the Association for European Georgia has a completely different attitude towards Sandra Roelofs Katie Gabiani:

– Sandra has done so much for Georgia that many Georgian women could not do. She brought to Georgia special medical equipment for the early diagnosis of breast cancer, from which, by the way, she herself suffered. Many Georgian women could undergo diagnostics absolutely free of charge. She helped women in hospitals, she worked with children... So Sandra Roelofs is one of the extraordinary, brilliant people who lived in Georgia and helped us during the nine years of President Saakashvili's rule.

According to the political scientist Ramaz Sakvarelidze, the resignation of Mikheil Saakashvili from the post of governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine and the refusal of Sandra Roelofs to work in the Georgian parliament should still be considered as interrelated events:

- I think these two events are more or less connected, since Roelofs was, so to speak, the spirit of Saakashvili in Georgian politics. Apparently, the era of "spirits" in politics will never end. Probably, the emphasis that Saakashvili made during his resignation on his future political activity in Ukraine rules out his activity in Georgia. He is going to lead a fierce fight against corruption in Ukraine. Note that in his last statement he never mentioned Georgia. Consequently, he simply "removed" Sandra Roelofs from the Georgian political scene. She was present in Georgian politics only because of Saakashvili, and now, probably, both will switch to the Ukrainian "arena".

- Will its decision somehow affect the balance of power and have a negative impact on the opposition?

- I think, on the contrary, it will have a positive impact, since Sandra Roelofs would hardly be able to fully participate in the discussions. Not because of the language barrier (she speaks Georgian quite well), but because she does not understand many of the nuances of Georgian politics. And her vacant seat in parliament will be taken by an experienced politician from the UNM party list - Giorgi Gviniashvili.

Many in Georgia are wondering: how much did Sandra Roelofs, as First Lady, influence President Saakashvili's decisions? Here is what the former head of the State Chancellery of the country thinks about it Petre Mamradze:

Behind all this, there was always a huge ambition.

- I personally know this couple, because I was close to them and even friends since the time when they returned from the USA, that is, since 1995. Sandra had little influence on Saakashvili's decisions. Saakashvili certainly did not allow this. But it influenced, and very positively, Saakashvili's popularity. Sandra Roelofs from the very beginning chose for herself the image that appealed to our people. And for both men and women: a modest mother of the family, who never burrows, is ready to serve the people, worked as a nurse, and did not play, but worked seriously - at night, tirelessly. But behind all this, there was always a huge ambition. It is she who owns the phrase: "The Georgian people love a "strong hand" - not without reason Stalin and Beria were Georgians." Those are her words! She has always contributed to strengthening the image of Saakashvili, as long as she could and as long as it was possible. But she also worked tirelessly, because she herself is a very ambitious lady, - says Petre Mamradze.

Tbilisi is convinced that after the decision to give up her parliamentary mandate, Sandra Roelofs will most likely leave Georgia and go to Ukraine, where Mikheil Saakashvili is launching another ambitious political project.

The biography of Mikheil Saakashvili today is of particular interest in connection with his extraordinary political activities. He is one of the most discussed high-ranking officials not only in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, but throughout the world. The reason for another wave of curiosity towards the personality and biography of Saakashvili was his appearance and active interference in the internal political affairs of Ukraine. In just three years, the former Georgian leader managed to be an adviser to the president of this country and the governor of one of the administrative-territorial units.

Parents and issues of ethnicity

The politician was born in Tbilisi on December 21, 1967. One of the controversial points of the biography is the nationality of Mikheil Saakashvili. Experts have no doubt: his family name has clearly Armenian roots, and in its original version it sounded like Sahakyan. However, there was no official confirmation of the connection with the Armenian nationality in Saakashvili's biography. Yes, and Mikhail Nikolozovich himself confidently declares the absence of kinship with the people of a neighboring unfriendly state.

Despite the self-identification of the ex-president of Georgia, who declares himself as a representative of the Mingrelian people, there are also discussions about the nationality of Saakashvili's parents. There is practically no information on the Web about the biography of his mother (Giuli Alasania), whose maiden name is also of Armenian origin. It is only known that the grandmother of little Mikho was Turkish, and her husband worked in the Georgian NKVD under Lavrenty Beria.

The father of the former head of Georgia, Nikoloz Saakashvili, left the family a few months before Mikhail was born and soon married another woman. He had a medical education and worked in his specialty. The mother of the politician - professor, doctor of historical sciences, is a representative of the Georgian scientific intelligentsia. As a child, little Misha held a grudge against his father after his parents divorced.

In the biography of Mikheil Saakashvili, one curious fact testifies to the nationality of his ancestors. The paternal grandfather of the politician (by the way, also Mikhail) never hid his Armenian origin and admitted that he changed his surname Saakov to Saakashvili only in order to found a medical university and take a rector's position in it. Thus, denying his true ethnic origin, Mikhail Nikolozovich denies his grandfather and father, whose real name, according to some sources, is Nikolaes Saakov.

Once, the Georgian ex-president complained to one of the Ukrainian publications that his middle name was allegedly distorted, since the middle name Nikolaevich, and not Nikolozovich, is indicated in the passport. “I was never Nikolozovich in my childhood, if someone used a patronymic, then it was always Nikolayevich,” Saakashvili quotes. The biography and nationality of the official, known as a political adventurer, really causes a lot of controversy among experts.

Saakashvili's childhood

The father was never interested in the fate of his son. Some time later, Mikhail's mother married the physiologist Zurab Kometiani. Despite the impressive age difference (the stepfather was 12 years older than the mother), the relationship between the spouses developed successfully. Zurab Kometiani was directly involved in the upbringing of the future politician, but Mikhail did not develop a trusting relationship with his stepfather either. The boy could not call the man "dad". In the family, Miho grew up as an only child, while he has half-brothers David and George, who were born in his father's second marriage.

In addition to his parents, Timur Alasania played an important role in Saakashvili's biography. My maternal uncle built a career in the structures of the Soviet KGB, and was also engaged in diplomacy at the UN. Looking ahead a little, it is worth noting that it was his connections that helped Mikhail get an education in the future and avoid criminal liability. But more on that later.

School years

The future politician grew up in the old, but perhaps the most prestigious district of the Georgian capital. The biography of Mikheil Saakashvili often mentions his linguistic abilities, which, according to many, were passed on to him from his mother. In wide circles, she is known as an excellent specialist in the history of Georgia in the Middle Ages. Giuli Alasania is fluent in Turkish. Half of her works are translations and editorial comments of Turkic sources.

If peers jumped on trees and played with a ball, then Mikhail sat with books all day long from childhood. At first he learned English and French, now he is quite fluent in Ukrainian and Spanish, and speaks Russian fluently. In his youth, the future official was fond of music, swimming, attended basketball clubs, while continuing to study his foreign language skills. In high school, Mikhail was promoted to deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Tbilisi school, which he graduated with a gold medal in 1984.

Higher education in Kyiv

When the question of getting a higher education was raised in the family, Uncle Timur intervened. In the biography of Mikhail Nikolozovich Saakashvili, his name will appear more than once. In those days (80s of the last century), Georgians considered the flourishing of production and wholesale trade. From Transcaucasian Georgia, flowers were transported to Moscow by plane for sale. At that time, the financial turnover was simply colossal, and it was Timur Alasania who dealt with logistics and organization of transportation. His extensive connections and entrepreneurial sly streak were the key to making huge profits. Therefore, it was not difficult for him to arrange a nephew in the most prestigious Ukrainian Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. By the way, he had many friends and acquaintances in the diplomatic department of Ukraine.

Admission to this educational institution was an important stage in the biography of Saakashvili. By provincial standards, the Institute of International Relations in Kyiv was the ultimate dream for many graduates. But still, MGIMO and Moscow State University trained professional diplomats for the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, produced mainly translators, that is, qualified technical personnel. Thanks to his uncle's connections, Mikhail received a targeted assignment to Kyiv from the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was impossible to get into this educational institution "from the street": the candidates for applicants were agreed at the level of the district committee and the city committee of the party.

Saakashvili did. Winners of the gold medal had the opportunity to take only one exam in a specialized subject. Miho, as an excellent student, was automatically enrolled after receiving the "five".

The role of Timur Alasania in the life of a politician

In the biography of Saakashvili, Uncle Timur is a very influential figure. However, he plays a certain role not only in the life of his nephew, but also in the entire Georgian politics. After diplomatic service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the early 90s, Alasania successfully moved to work in the United States. Uncle Timur began to comprehend his American career ladder from the position of a petty clerk in the UN Disarmament Committee. He currently holds the important position of Senior Adviser to the UN Secretariat. Timur Alasania is currently considered one of the leading specialists in logistics and transport transit.

Looking ahead, it is worth noting that after graduating from a Kyiv university, he again helped his nephew with studies in the States and further employment in New York. In financial support, the young man did not know the limitations, the relative generously provided the means of subsistence. Mikhail, unlike most students, did not live in a hostel, but in rented apartments in presentable areas of the city. Uncle Timur helps his nephew to this day, remaining an informal lobbyist for his interests.

Loud scandal in youth

There are also dark spots in the biography of Mikheil Saakashvili. They have nothing to do with personal life. Judge for yourself: at the Institute of International Relations at the KNU. T. G. Shevchenko, the future politician, entered immediately after graduating from school, in 1984. The term of study at this university is “standard” and is 5 years. However, Mikhail graduated from his studies in Kyiv only in 1992. A quite logical question arises: what did Saakashvili do for another three years?

The politician himself gives rather vague and vague answers to this question. It turns out that in the first year of study in Kyiv, Miho was expelled from the Komsomol. He does not deny this fact. True, Saakashvili assures that the reason for this was his participation in some kind of anti-communist movement and the distribution of dissident literature. In fact, the problems of the then young Saakashvili had no political grounds. If capitalist propaganda had been the cause of the scandal and the deprivation of the red book of a member of the Komsomol, everything would have been much more serious. Expulsion from the university would be inevitable.

After graduating from school in 1984, the future president, along with his friends, started replicating German films for adults, and then began to involve local girls in the filming. All videotapes were seized. In one of them, a candid scene was filmed with the participation of Miho's underage girlfriend. Saving her son from criminal reprisals, Giuli Alasania sent Mikhail to Kyiv, where, as described above, his own uncle helped with admission.

Army service

However, in Kyiv, the adventurer was not going to settle down. No, he was no longer fond of pornography, but in front of his classmates everything was impudent and skittish. When the institute received a paper detailing the entire history of the porn scandal in Georgia (an anonymous letter was sent to the institute by the family of one of the defamed Georgian girls), he had no choice but to decide on military service. The army, as Mikhail hoped, was supposed to wash away the shame from him, after which he could be restored in the ranks of the Komsomol. Otherwise, his diplomatic career could have been put to rest.

Luckily for Miho, the institute had a military department. He never got to know all the litigations of army service and soldier's everyday life. There was a sparing attitude towards translators, so recruits were not even shaved. Like any educational institution that produced workers for the civil service abroad, the Kyiv Institute of International Relations was subordinate to the KGB. Accordingly, Mikhail was sent to serve according to a departmental profile - to the border troops of the KGB of the USSR.

Years later, having already come to power, Saakashvili appeared at one of the meetings of the Georgian government in a camouflage military uniform and defiantly raised the issue of the need for monthly military training for ministers who did not serve in the army. In front of journalists' cameras and photographic lenses, Miho also recalled his "heroic" voluntary military career. Saakashvili was not cunning and was truly proud of himself, because he really wore a green cap and shoulder straps of border guards, being a clerk at the headquarters of one of the border detachments in Ukraine, which he so loved. Mikhail acted in frontier amateur performances, drew wall newspapers, designed demobilization albums and did other things in which his beautiful handwriting with curls and monograms characteristic of the Georgian capital alphabet could come in handy. After being reinstated in the Komsomol, he took an active part in the life of the Komsomol: he sat on committees and covered political information.

Education abroad

Soon the debt to the Motherland was paid in full, and the service came to an end. Having rehabilitated and matured after the army, Saakashvili returned to the penates of his native university and continued his studies at KIMO. In 1992, Miho received a red diploma.

After completing his studies in Kyiv, Saakashvili decided to return to Georgia, where he was offered a position as a legal consultant in the State Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. After some time, the young official received a grant and went to the Strasbourg International Institute of Human Rights. As a scholarship from the US State Department, Saakashvili was sent to study in New York - this period has already been briefly mentioned in his biography. In the same place, a year later, Saakashvili received a master's degree in law, after which Mikhail studied at the George Washington University, trained in Florence and at the Hague Academy of International Law. Before becoming a leader of the Georgian people, he worked at the Human Rights Research Institute in Oslo, as well as at the private New York company Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. The firm was engaged in legal support of oil and gas projects with partners from the CIS countries.

Politician's wife

Personal life in the biography of Saakashvili is far from the last place. Mikhail Nikolozovich met his wife in France in 1993. Of course, we will not begin to sort out the biography of Saakashvili's wife, but nevertheless we will pay attention to the most interesting facts from there.

Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs was born on December 23, 1968. The wife of a Georgian politician is Flemish by birth. Now she has two citizenships - the Netherlands and Ukraine.

In the biography of Mikheil Saakashvili's wife, according to some European publishers, there is an episode that she herself prefers not to comment on. Allegedly, the wife of the ex-president, long before meeting him, starred in a number of Norwegian porn publications. However, this information is based on rumors and speculation, and therefore, to believe it or not, everyone decides for himself. Roelofs is fluent in several languages: French, Spanish, Dutch, German, English, Georgian and Russian.

It is interesting that for the first time the girl visited Georgia not in the status of the bride or wife of Saakashvili. The biography of Sandra Roelofs tells about her cooperation with the Red Cross and the implementation of a number of humanitarian missions with this charitable organization. In the summer of 1992, she brought over 20 kg of ornamental garden plant seeds from Holland.

Among the official facts from the biography of Saakashvili's wife, it is worth noting her studies in Strasbourg. By the way, this is where the couple met. Mikhail did an internship at the International Institute of Human Rights, and Sandra arrived for the course shortly before her planned departure to Somalia. Getting acquainted, the future spouse then said: "I'm from Georgia, but not the one in the USA." According to Sandra's recollections, Mikhail seemed to her an elegant and dignified young man, so they liked each other at first sight.

By the way, Roelofs never went to Somalia. She went to New York to defend human rights. In the States, the girl successfully got a job at Columbia University, combining her professional activities with work in a Dutch law firm. In America, Sandra became the wife of Saakashvili. The biography of the ex-president says that the wedding was celebrated on a grand scale in Tbilisi.

In 1995, the first-born Eduard was born in the family, and a year later the Saakashvili couple returned to Georgia at the invitation of Zurab Zhvania. In the same period, Mikhail was elected a deputy of the ruling party, which supports the policy of the current leader of the country, Eduard Shevardnadze. Sandra Roelofs worked for the Red Cross and the Dutch consulate, wrote articles and worked as a correspondent, covering the whole world with Dutch and Georgian news, socio-political and acute economic issues.

It is curious that Saakashvili's wife, as already noted, was a polyglot. She learned her husband's native language (including the Mingrelian dialect) in a short time, which, apparently, conquered the Georgian people. Sentimental and at the same time emotional, passionate Georgians fell in love with her, calling her "Dutch rose". This flower became a real symbol of the state during the reign of Saakashvili. According to stories, many cried when they listened to Sandra's performances on TV, especially when she sang "Suliko".

Political dossier of the Georgian ex-president

A year later, Saakashvili was appointed chairman of the committee on legal and constitutional issues. In 1998, the official became the head of the parliamentary faction "Union of Citizens of Georgia". A couple of years later, Mikhail Saakashvili got the opportunity to represent the republic in PACE. In 2000 he was appointed Minister of Justice. Due to the appointment of Miho, he had to give up his parliamentary mandate.

In the fall of 2001, the then-future president resigned, accusing the incumbent head of state, Eduard Shevardnadze, of corruption. Saakashvili created the opposition association "National Movement", which included more than 20 thousand people. In 2002, he became chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Tbilisi.

The following year, parliamentary elections were held in the republic. The opposition led by Saakashvili refused to recognize their result. In the end, opponents of the current government seized the parliament building. Protests organized by the National Movement party, along with Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burjanadze, led to a coup d'état in Georgia in November 2003. The motive of the "Rose Revolution" was simple: the population and the opposition expressed confidence in the falsification of the election results. Shevardnadze resigned. New presidential elections were held in January 2004. More than 96% of voters gave their votes for Mikheil Saakashvili.

In 2005, the family of the head of Georgia already had two children. In the biography of Saakashvili, in addition to the addition to the family, there have been other changes. National love quickly enough was replaced by hatred. The President of Georgia began to be accused of wasting budgetary funds for personal needs, or rather, for family vacations. Every now and then, publications appeared in the media accusing the president of living in a big way. In 2007, popular discontent led to mass protests in Tbilisi. In November of the same year, Saakashvili decided to resign and called early elections, but in January 2008 he won again.

Saakashvili failed to complete his second presidential term after the opposition came to power. Political opponents of the ex-president launched an investigation into the mysterious death of Zurab Zhvania, where, according to one version, the current Georgian leader was involved in the murder. Without waiting for the end of his presidential term, Saakashvili flew to Brussels in 2013.