(EurasiaNet) Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has stepped down from his post as governor of the Ukrainian region of Odessa. The resignation closes one chapter on the story of one of the post-Soviet space’s most colorful statesmen, but Saakashvili gave no hint about what his next step might be. […]
Saakashvili was trying “to sit on two chairs” while serving in Ukraine, but keeping active in Georgia, said Kornely Kakachia, director of the Georgian Institute for Politics. Now it appears that he will focus on Ukraine for the time being. “I think that after the [October parliamentary] election he understood that he has no stake at Georgian politics for at least next 4 years” until the next elections, Kakachia told EurasiaNet. But he added that it is also possible that he will bring his trademarked reform-oriented, anti-Russia skills to another post-Soviet state. “It seems he believes he has a role in post-Soviet politics,” Kakachia said, suggesting a comparison to “a post-Soviet Che Guevara – only right-wing.” […]
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