Mikhail Saakashvili, a leader with a rather too beautiful biography…
The portrait drawn by Salomé Zourabichli in her book the "Georgian tragedy" is to say the least caustic. And in any case very far from biography "particularly hagiographic written with both hands with the son of André Glucksman ("your name is written freedom") and designed by the Brussels lobbyists of the president".
At KGB school ...? "It is explained that he comes from a family of Georgian patriots and the intelligentsia. True but half. He forgets to specify that this patriotic family does something that in the late 80s, no Georgian patriotic family would have done: send the young Micha to do his military service in the Soviet army. Everyone tried, on the contrary, by all means, to escape this obligation. (...) What is more in the special forces of the ministry of the Interior, whose headquarters are in Kiev. A surprising decision, which also requires support in high places. There is no doubt that the young Micha's uncle, Temour Alassania, a senior Soviet official at the United Nations, position of high trust linked to the KGB, had a decisive role in this decision and its realization." The author goes further (...) "The specialty he chooses - international relations (which he studies at the University of Kiev) - is itself in the Soviet Union of that time and because it leads to contacts with foreign countries, to the diplomatic career, or to prestigious institutes, the "reserved domain of the KGB".
Turned over by the CIA ...? "There is in his biography, a slightly more obscure page, that of his time in Washington, at the University, where we do not know what he studied and for how long. The hypothesis that he could also have been recruited by the American services at this time, and undergo accelerated training, has been mentioned. It would help explain why the Americans were so inquisitive about his uncle's service record and his active role with the young Georgian president..."
worthy heir of Shevardnadze. "VS'It was Shevardnadze who brought him into his "Citizens' Movement", a government party which rallied the entire Georgian political class around the "old wolf", thus becoming a new single party, a model that Micha would then take up with his National Movement. Micha's mentors are also followers of Shevardnadze: thus Lana Gogoberidze, daughter of one of the most formidable Georgian chekists of the first hour, whose name is linked to the worst repressions, loyal among the followers of Shevardnadze, to whom Micha does not refuse nothing, and that he will end up renaming minister counselor at the embassy in Paris at the age of 80. Guela Charkviani, English interpreter for Shevardnadze for years, became Micha's personal adviser and confidant, then his ambassador in London."
