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The other day I was listening to Prof. Stephen Cohen on the John Batchellor Show. If you're interested in the Ukraine conflict, Syria conflict etc. I highly recommend it.

Anyway, he brought up the fact that Saakashvili had a warrant out for his arrest in his home country of Georgia for 'abuse of power'. Georgia had even demanded that he be extradited to face trial.

I couldn't believe it. I knew Saakashvili was a neocon puppet, hand picked by John McCain, but I didn't know it went that deep.

Now, the New York Times is reporting that Saakashvili has been stripped of his citizenship!

Quote:

Georgia: Ex-President Loses Citizenship

Georgia on Friday stripped former President Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship, in a move one of his supporters described as part of a settling of political scores. President Giorgi Margvelashvili signed a decree removing his predecessor’s citizenship on the grounds that Mr. Saakashvili, now governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, became a Ukrainian citizen in May.

Mr. Saakashvili came to power in the bloodless Rose Revolution in 2003 and steered Georgia on a pro-Western course that antagonized Moscow and culminated in a five-day war in 2008 in which Georgia was crushed by Russian forces. He is wanted in Georgia on charges including abuse of power and using excessive force against protesters in 2007, but Ukrainian prosecutors rejected a request to extradite him earlier this year.

Friday’s decree is “yet another example of employing legal instruments for political persecution,” said Nugzar Tsiklauri, an opposition member of Parliament. Dozens of former state officials have been convicted in Georgia since a coalition led by a billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili, won a parliamentary election in 2012, ending nine years of Saakashvili dominance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/world/...nship.html

And now Saakashvili is the governor of Odessa. He was assigned that position to stop the regions notorious corruption.

This just shows how fall Ukraine has fallen: They're using corrupt Presidents to stop corruption....



And because the current Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yatsenyuk, is loathed there is talk Saakashvili could become Prime Minister. What a joke!

Ukraine has been pretty quiet, aside from some Tatar terrorists blowing up a power grid in Crimea. I don't see things going well there.

Edit: He was stripped of citizenship because he was not permitted to hold dual-citizenship. However, he was charged with a crime and his extradition was demanded.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgi...FK20140802
http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-revokes-ex...15916.html