Georgia
Former Georgian Interior Minister Okruashvili sentenced to 7 years over 2004 police killing
The case involved the police killing of a 19-year-old in 2004.
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Georgia’s EU U-turn
Former Georgian Defence Minister Okruashvili sentenced to 8 months
Okruashvili’s arrest is part of a series of prosecutions over the boycott of Georgian Dream’s anti-UNM commission.
Georgia
New charges brought against jailed former Georgian Defence Minister Okruashvili
Irakli Okruashvili, who previously served as defence minister, is already in jail for failing to appear at a parliamentary investigative commission.
Georgia
Former Georgian Defence Minister Okruashvili arrested for refusing to appear at anti-UNM commission
Georgia’s Prosecutor General’s Office launched an investigation into Irakli Okruashvili’s failure to appear at the commission in March.
Georgia
Georgian prosecutors launch investigation into former Defence Minister Okruashvili
Irakli Okruashvili was among the leaders of the 2003 Rose Revolution, in which Mikheil Saakashvili’s UNM came to power.
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Georgia’s former defence minister goes to war
A former Defence Minister of Georgia, Irakli Okruashvili is now fighting to defend Kyiv as part of Ukraine’s International Legion. Between his duties on the front, Okruashvili found time to speak with OC Media about the battle for Ukraine. ‘We must have been under intense fire for more than two days, and this time there were losses on both sides’, the 48-year-old former minister told OC Media during an interview by phone on 14 March. Speaking of the hardest fighting he had witnessed so far,
2020 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgian opposition groups finalise electoral pact for Tbilisi candidates
A group of Georgian opposition parties has announced a joint list of majoritarian candidates to compete in the electoral districts of Tbilisi in October’s parliamentary elections. While candidates will formally represent their own parties, the parties that have signed up have agreed not to field candidates opposing each other in a bid to mobilise voters against the ruling Georgian Dream party. Shalva Natelashvili, Labour Party leader and the group’s majoritarian candidate in Tbilisi’s Nadzal
