Georgia moves away from the European Union to return to Moscow's orbit

While fighting still rages in the Donbass, the Russian war in the former lands of the Soviet Union continues in other ways.

Vladimir Putin's former public enemy number one, Mikhail Saakashvili, who at the end of the Rose Revolution in 2004 had anchored his country, Georgia, to the Western democratic family thanks to reforms imposed at a forced march, is dying gently in prison at 54 years old.

According to those close to him, the charismatic and pro-European ex-president of this small Caucasian republic may not survive the mistreatment of which he is a victim for long.

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Sentenced in his absence during a political trial to nine years in prison for "

", Micha Saakashvili was arrested on his return to Georgia on October 1, 2021, after eight years spent in exile, notably in Ukraine, a country from which he was acquired citizenship when he was appointed governor of Odessa in 2015. Since then, the region's most notorious political prisoner with…

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