After the Revolution

Though conspiracy theories about the death of billionaire opposition leader and media mogul Badri Patarkatsishvili seem to be losing steam, one question remains unanswered: What will become of Patarkatsishvili’s embattled television station?
 According to a recent article on EurasiaNet.org, Rupert Murdoch’s son is to arrive in Georgia in the near future to discuss purchasing a controlling […]

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The richest citizen of Georgia died suspiciously on Tuesday at the age of 52. 
I wrote about Badri Patarkatsishvili on Jan. 30 and and Jan. 15. He was the billionaire media mogul who supported Georigan President Mikheil Saakashvili during the Rose Revolution but ran against him in the most recent election.
He was in exile, having been accused of plotting a coup after last year’s […]

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This is an update to my Jan. 17 post about presidential candidate and media mogul Badri Patarkatsishvili.
The court may have found yet another problem with Patarkatsishvili’s long-hounded broadcast company, Imedi TV — the fact that he might have illegally retained some ownership of it while campaigning for president.
After Patarkatsishvili announced his bid for the presidency in […]

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Acting president of Georgian Public Broadcasting, Nino Burjanadze, agreed Jan. 15 to dissolve and reform the GPB board of trustees using input from both the government and the opposition. The opposition has complained that only media sympathetic to the government remains since the forced and then voluntary closure of opposition station Imedi TV.
According to the […]

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“It’s only in Georgia that I’m this lovely old man, this grandfather figure. If they want to really know my background, they should ask in Russia — they know me differently there.”
This is the quote an article at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty used to introduce Badri Patarkatsishvili — a billionaire with a white […]

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