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After demobilization, Saakashvili continued his education and in 1992, after receiving his diploma and becoming proficient in Ukrainian, he returned to Tbilisi.
Early Political Career
Georgia at that time was one of the most troubled regions in the post-Soviet space, with the struggle between Gamsakhurdia and Shevardnadze, political and criminal killings, the spread of "thieves in law," and economic devastation.
After refusing to cooperate, Saakashvili was sentenced in absentia and charged with embezzlement of state funds. Lifting up his hands to show he was unarmed, Saakashvili held up a single red rose.
On November 23, 2003 Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as President of Georgia. The boy was raised by his stepfather, Zurab Kometiiani, a renowned professor of psychology.
Currently, he is actively working to combat corruption, smuggling, and reforming state structures in the region.
Mikheil Saakashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia on December 21, 1967, the eldest of three brothers. After graduating with honors from the prestigious Institute of International Relations of Kiev University he moved to the U.S.
to attend Columbia University in New York City as an Edmund S. Muskie Fellow. His family's assets and bank accounts were frozen. As the president of Georgia, Saakashvili fought against corruption in all forms and manifestations without compromise. In 1992 at the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, he organized a conference between Georgians and South Ossetians, which resulted in signing the first ceasefire agreement.
In 1995 Saakashvili was elected to the Georgian Parliament initiating Georgia's first merit-based selection of judges.
And on January 4, 2004 the people of Georgia elected Mikheil Saakashvili as their President with 96 percent of the votes. After the Rose Revolution, Russia, Georgia's primary economic partner, boycotted all Georgian imports. He actively participated in public life and in his senior years became the deputy secretary of the school committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol).
He also became the First Minister of Justice to address prison reform. His uncle, Timur Alasania, was a former UN employee and a KGB colonel.
The official cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, although there were rumors of the elimination of the president's most dangerous competitor. Later, Saakashvili participated in the events of the Euromaidan in Kiev, acted as a consultant and advisor to Poroshenko, and in March 2015, after receiving Ukrainian citizenship, he was appointed the head of the Odessa regional administration.
from Columbia Law School in 1994. On December 19, 2009, he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal saying:
“The test of the bonds among nations is not what we do when it is easy, but rather what we do when it is hard. His father, Nikoloz (Nikolai) Saakashvili, a doctor and the son of a medical university rector, remarried a few months before Mikheil's birth.
He entered parliament as a member of the Union of Citizens of Georgia party led by Z. Zhvania. However, this interest ended badly when he was accused of disseminating samizdat literature in 1988 and was expelled from the institute and the Komsomol.