Саакашвили

Моя стаття у найбільшій і найбільш авторитетній газеті світу, The New York Times
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Моя статья в крупнейшей и самой авторитетной газете мира, The New York Times

How I Went From the Governor’s Office to a Jail Cell

By Mikheil Saakashvili

Dec. 15, 2017

KIEV, Ukraine — I may be the first former head of state since a Habsburg to be left stateless.

In the past, I’ve also been described as one of the worst enemies of President Vladimir Putin of Russia. And yet I recently spent three days in solitary confinement, held by the Security Service of Ukraine, which, among other allegations, accused me of being an agent of the Russian secret service

n the past, I’ve also been described as one of the worst enemies of President Vladimir Putin of Russia. And yet I recently spent three days in solitary confinement, held by the Security Service of Ukraine, which, among other allegations, accused me of being an agent of the Russian secret service.

How did this happen?

After I finished two terms as president of Georgia, during which I turned my homeland into what the World Bank described in 2007 as the No. 1 reformer in the world, I moved to the United States to teach.

But in November 2013, protests began in Ukraine, the country where I had earlier in my life studied and lived for many years, to get rid of a thuggish, pro-Russian president. After students were beaten in Kiev’s central square, I knew I had to be there. I traveled to Ukraine to join the demonstrations on the Maidan.

Initially, after the ouster of the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, the situation in Ukraine looked promising. Following his election to the presidency, Petro Poroshenko in May 2015 granted me Ukrainian citizenship.

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