Saakashvili resigns Odesa governorship, citing sabotage of reform by central authorities

KYIV – In July 2015, less than two months after his one-time college chum President Petro Poroshenko appointed him as governor of the strategic Black Sea region of Odesa, Mikheil Saakashvili deployed a bulldozer through an oligarch’s beachfront property to give the public access to the seashore. It was a display of his proclaimed resolve … Continue reading Saakashvili resigns Odesa governorship, citing sabotage of reform by central authorities