Georgia’s ex-president shaking up politics in Ukraine

His threat last week to jump from an eight-storey building rather than be arrested is the latest in Mikheil Saakashvili’s dramatic political history.

Mikheil Saakashvili was Georgia's president for nine years until 2013, the year he's pictured, and later became a governor in Ukraine. Photograph courtesy of the European People's Party

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

December 13, 2017

OTTAWA—Last week, there was a bizarre incident in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Ukrainian security forces had descended on an apartment building with the intent of arresting Mikheil Saakashvili on charges of having taken money with the intent of destabilizing Ukraine. Rather than subm...

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