Leonid Ragozin: Mikheil Saakashvili proves there’s an evolving Russian-speaking space
Ukrainian Odessa region governor and former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili speaks during an anti-corruption forum in Kiev on Dec. 23, 2015.
As the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili rarely missed a chance to present himself as a man whose mission was to dismantle every vestige of Soviet or Russian imperial legacy. He opened a museum of occupation in Tbilisi and ordered a gigantic World War II memorial be blown up to make way for a new Georgian parliament building. He made English rather than Russian the primary foreign language in Georgian schools and later called on Ukrainians to follow suit.
