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« on: November 21, 2021, 01:13:44 PM »
People of Mktvartvelo



Historical Figures of Mktvartvelo
Brzdmtsveli Ketevan Chakhava (head of state)
Office of the Brzdmtsveli

The Order of Simartlea
-Aka Salukvadze


Business and Finance
Inzhu Birinseli
Zhuldyz Birinseli
-Eto Kvachantiradze


Society
-Vardo Tsintsadze
Media

Politics
Premiership of Gela Berdzenishvili (2014-2022)
Premiership of Bidzina Samkharadze (2022-2023)
Premiership of Gocha Mokleadze (2023)
Premiership of Shota Samadashvili (2023)
Premiership of Brdzeni Kvirkvelia (2023-present day)
Brdzeni Kvirkvelia


The National Assembly
The Council of State
Judiciary
The Armed Forces
Diplomacy: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies

Political parties
Conservative Party
Liberal Democratic Party
National Renovation
-Shalva Virsaladze
-Vazha Virsaladze
-Gulisa Paliashvili
Coalition of the True Right
Moderate Alignment
Social National Party
Radical Democratic Party
Unions and trade organizations

The Free Autonomous Territory of Jugland

Gabdatsin Inc.




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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2021, 03:29:51 PM »

Okropir the Great

Not much it is known about the origins of Okropir the Great, besides that he belonged that the Pertiveli tribe. He gained prominence as a military commander in the late 3rd century. Around 301, he became the fifth Matskharebeli (the military leader of the Mtskhetistsikhe Confederation). According to the legend, he was elected by unanimity between the main tribal leaders, something that was considered rare in the time. He ruled for more that two decades, until 326 when death, according to the chronicles, death surprised him during a religious festivity. During his first decade as ruler, the Mtskhetistsikhe Confederation consolidated its rule over much of today central and western Mktvartvelo through a number of wars, but he was also able in his late years to assure the future of the confederation through diplomatic means with nearby states.

He is mentioned in many epic poems and he is considered as the first hero of the Mktvartvelian people.




Amiran the Wise

Amiran Machaidze, known as Amiran the Wise, belonged to the Permeri clan, from the Pertiveli tribe. He ruled as Matskharebeli from 639 to 668. He faced increasing internal turmoil and fought in several not exactly successful wars against nearby states, only being able to postpone the end of the Mtskhetistsikhe Confederation, which would eventually happen a few decades after his death. Nowadays, he is mostly known for his promotion of the arts and science, and for writting the Kargitserili Chronicle, considered the most important historical source on the Mtskhetistsikhe Confederation.




Ketevan of Mtsvumi

Her biography before becoming Sinatdedopali in 1187, including her year of birth, is unknown, besides that she is believed to be born in the Baghi tribe and being a priestess in a temple consacrated to Bortsvimaghalia before being elected Sinatdedopali.

She was accused of having taken a nobleman from the Mdidari tribe as a lover in 1201, and she stood in a trial in which she was sentenced to death. Her alleged lover was executed and quartered, while she, instead of being starved to death, chose to drink a poison. Her trial, which happened in the middle of a civil war, has often considered a political trial, as she was said to opposed the interests of the Pkhizladani tribe, which at the time controlled central Mktvartvelo.

Already in the 13th century, particularly after the establishment of the Kingdom of Sashuavelo -which was led by a tribe rival to the Pkhizladani-, she was considered a martyr of the Order of Simartlea, and she is often revered as a semi-deity.




Bedisa I the Sage

Besida Kvernadze, from the Damoukebedi tribe, became Queen of the Kingdom of Sashuavelo after the death of his brother, King Vazha III. Unlike the Mtskhetistsikhe Confederation or Unitary State of Mktvartvelo, the Kingdom of Sashuavelo had a hereditary monarch, in which the crowd was inherited between siblings, and once there was no other sibling available, to the most senior direct descendant of the next generation.

Under her reign, from 1226 to 1255, the Kingdom of Sashuavelo consolidated with several military campaigns against eastern and southern city-states. Besida is regarded as devout follower of the Order of Simartlean and, besides passing several administrative reforms, she also funded the construction of many temples, strengthened and reformed religious courts, and persecuted Christians and other minority religions.




Ramaz Abuladze

Ramaz Abuladze, from the Zghvis clan, was a military leader and politician. He had a leading role in the final defeat of the Abydians in the Battle of Kutatsqaro (1679), which witnessed the end of foreign domination in Mktvartvelo.

After his cousin Shalva becomes Brzdmtsveli of the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo in 1704, Ramaz became commander of the Mktvartvelian army, as well as other government roles, until his retirement in 1720. He remains one of the most popular military leaders in Mktvartvelo's history.




Shalva I

Shalva Rustavi (1665-1721), from the Zghvis clan, previously Prince of Abakha, became the first Brzdmtsveli in 1704, following the establishment of the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo. The title of Brzdmtsveli (meaning "sovereign guardian") has existed in ancient times as an unofficial title, became the main title of the head state of the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo since then.

The wars had left the country devastated, and although he was able to keep certain stability during most of his reign, he was forced to accept a treaty which would establish an eastern Ardian colony on the coast.




Gela III

Gela Sakandelidze (1694-1759), from the Mstiani clan, ruled Mktvartvelo as Brzdmtsveli from 1741 to 1759. He introduced many administrative reforms, increading the creation of the High Council, which since 1761, would officially elect the Brzdmtsveli.




Ramaz Maisuradze

He led the nation in the Northern War (1760-1766), in which the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo expanded their territory toward the west, after defeating a coalition led by Abydos. Despite this victory, he was forced to abdicate in 1769, as consequence of increasing prices and turmoil and several rebellions, particularly in the southwestern and northern provinces. As a result, General Levan Sagaradze would become Brzdmtsveli, returning the Mstiani clan to power. Levan’s reign would be short, however, as he died in 1774 during a cholera epidemy that affected the capital city, but the Mstiani clan would retain the office of the Brzdmtsveli until 1786.




Malkhaz IV

Malkhaz Kapanadze (1815-1881), who ruled as Malkhaz IV, belonged to the Gabedi clan, as most of Brzdmtsveli during the 19th century. He introduced many reforms, including a reorganization of the judicial system, a military reform, promoting higher education, as well as replacing the High Council for the Council of State, which allowed him to have a greater control and influence on his potential successor. He also established a national parliament, although only 20,000 electors had the right to vote in the election. He also promoted local elections and granted local government with more autonomy.

After the death of his first wife, he married Hagit Na'ava Mashiah, a Vanoran noblewoman. Malkhaz is said to have increasingly favoured the idea of a constitutional reform, which would establish a semi-constitutional monarchy under a hereditary monarch instead of an elected one. For that, he aimed to establish his own clan with her second wife. Although the reality of such plans is still controversial, there would fade away as death surprised him in 1881. But his supporters in both the government and the Council of State allowed his wife to be elected Brzdmtsveli, taking the name of Tamara Chakhava or Tamara I.




Hagit Na'ava Mashiah or Tamara I

Tamara I (1850-1892) was the only Brzdmstveli who was born abroad, as she was a Vanoran noble who married Malkhaz IV in 1876. She continued her husband’s policies, as well as other liberal-minded reforms including the decriminalization of religious proselytism, a reform of the military and the banking system, and more importantly, the final abolition of the serfdom in 1886. However, she would deposed in 1888 following a coup d’etat and she was sent into secret prison in Sighnaki, where she would die in 1892.





Levan Mikataudze

Levan Mikataudze (1838-1922) was elected Brzdmtsveli in 1886, following a coup d’etat which was led by his cousin Okropyr Beridze. Both belonged to the...clan. Levan’s rule was highly authoritarian, and a large number of ministers that served under both Malkhaz and Tamara, including several members of the Council of State, were imprisoned or executed. During his rule, tensions with Abydos increased, as the Muslim minority was persecuted, as well with Vanora, particularly after it was known about Tamara’s death in 1892.

His repressive policies, as well the disaffection of the eastern clans and the increasing in prices led to the Gvalvitsebi Revolt, which caused the start of the National War, which lasted from 1897 to 1906. In 1899, he was forced to flee the capital city, and despite a brief return in 1903, he finally fled the country. He would not return to Mktvartvelo until a second amnesty in 1919, dying in 1922.




Zurab Orjonikidze

Zurab Orjonikidze, from the Dasatsqise clan, was elected Brzdmtsveli in 1907, replacing  General Guram Ananidze, who had been ruling as acting head of state since 1904. His rule was marked by attempts of compromise and national reconciliation. In 1911, it was promulgated the Charter of  Khisjvari, which established the National Assembly as well some constitutional rights. However, the last years of his reign are mostly remembered for increasing political tensions and social protests.




Tsisana Lomidze

Tsisana I was elected Brzdmtsveli in 1944. During her rule, the policies of national development and industrialization were continued and advanced, and it was implemented an opening of the economy to attract foreign investment. In foreign policy, it was negotiated the Treaty of Nordheim, which paved the way for a final settlement of the issue of the territory and Jugland, including the peaceful annexation of the preferecture of Nordansk into Mktvartvelo in 1951. She died in 1967.




Otar Zakhariadze

Following the brief rule of Vephkia Daushvili (1967-1971), Otar Zakhariadze was elected Brzdmtsveli as Otar II. Zakhariadze was an experienced politician, serving as Prime Minister three times (1952-1957, 1961-1962, and 1966-1969.

Although he was widely respected at the time, his rule would start a period of economic stagnation and political division, which led, one year after his death in 1977, to a failed coup d’etat.




Endzela Shengelaia

Ending the so-called “Parliamentary Dictatorship” period (1976-1978), Endzela Shegelaia was elected Brzdmtsveli as Endzela I. Endzela I opted for a more neutral approach than her predecessors, and she was rarely involved in partisan or domestic policy.  During her reign, many reforms were introduced, such as a new electoral, legislative and tax reforms, as well as reforms on education and healthcare. Since the 1990s, the country also experienced a considerably increase in economic growth, which helped to leave behind the political tensions of the 1970s.

She abdicated for health reasons in 2002, being replaced by Tamaz Japharidze, from the Pridoni clan.




Tamaz Japharidze

In 2002, following the abdication of Endzela Shengelaia, Tamaz Japharidze was elected Brzdmtsveli by the Council of State. Japharidze, who became head of state as Tamaz IV, was the son of Ramaz Berashvili, who served as Minister of Education from 1949 to 1954 and later a member of the Council of State until his death in 1979. His brother, Imeda Japharidze, had also been a member of the National Assembly and served as Deputy Minister of Energy and Deputy Minister of Immigration Policy. Unlike his father and brother, he was mostly involved in the family business, becoming CEO of Okros Spilendzi Inc., a mining company, since 1978, and was later appointed Chairman of the Federation of Commerce in 1989.

As Brzdmtsveli, Tamaz IV was rarely directly involved in political affairs. His health started to decline in 2019, and he died in late 2021, following complications as consequence of a surgical intervention after suffering a stroke. Ketevan Chakhava will replace as Brzdmtsveli.


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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2021, 09:17:41 PM »


Ketevan Chakhava
Birth1975
ClanTbagaqinuli
TitleBrzdmtsveli (since 2021)
EducationKtsatskuri National University, degree on Economics and Political Law; master's degree on State and International Finance
RolesPresident of Honour of Akhali Shansi Foundation (2014-2021), Brzdmtsveli of the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo (since 2021)
FamilyParents: Eldar Gabriadze (1943) and Tamara Chakhava (1946-2017)
Spouse(s): Vazha Chiaureli (1969)
Issues: Amiran Chakhava (2006), Malkhaz Chakhava (2009), Ramaz Chakhava (2014), Silamaze (2008) and Natela (2011)
BiographyKetevan Chakhava is the last surviving female member of the Tbagaqinuli clan. The clan was established following the marriage of Brzdmtsveli Malkhaz IV and Hagit Na'ava Mashiah (the latter ruled as Brzdmstveli Tamara I after her husband's death, from 1881 to 1888). Ketevan's great-grandmother Tsisana Tbagaqinulishvili and her sister Lela were smuggled out of the capital city hours after the coup d'etat that deposed their mother. During the National War, they lived in Vanora. While Lela remained in Vanora and married a Vanoran noble, Tsisana returned to Mktvartvelo in 1908, marrying Zviad Nasidze, a military officer from the Linkse clan. In 1911, before the birth of their first child, Tsisana officially renamed herself as Tsisana Chakhava.

Ketevan's father belonged to a northern family from the Mdinare clan. He married Ketevan's mother, Tamara Chakhava in 1969. They had three children: Ketevan, and other two sons. Following the death of her mother in 2017, Ketevan became the most senior female member of the Tbagaqinuli clan.

Ketevan was born in Ktsatskuri in 1975, and studied in Ktsatskuri National University. After finishing her studies 2003, she worked in a law firm until 2009. In 2010, she joined Momakhavali Management, a banking and industrial conglomerate, becoming Director of their International Department in 2013.  Ketevan is also known for her charity activities, being the President of Honour of Akhali Shansi Foundation, a non-profit charity organization particularly involved with orphans and children from marginalized families, since 2014.

Ketevan's husband, Vazha Chiaureli, belongs to the Mstiani clan, being late Brzdmtsveli Endzela Shengelaia's grandnephew. They have three sons as well as two girls they adopted in 2016. Following the death of Tamaz IV in 2021, she was elected Brzdmtsveli of the Unitary State of Mktvartvelo by the Council of State.





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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2021, 09:44:04 PM »


Premiership of Gela Berdzenishvili, 2014-2022



Prime Minister Gela Berdzenishvili

Gela Berzenishvili comes from a prominent political family. His late grandfather Givi Roinashvili was a diplomatic and Minister of Foreign Affairs, while his late father Bidzina Siprashvili was a member of the National Assembly for forty years, serving as Deputy Prime Minister for National Development from 1983 to 1989.

Gela started his political career in Azavrelia in the early 1990s, serving in the local council. Following the death of his father in 1995, he was elected three months later in his father's electoral district. He has been reelected every time since then. He served as Deputy Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2001, before being appointed Minister of Administrative Law the same year. He was dismissed in 2005, but rejoined the government as Ministry of Treasury from 2008 to 2011. He was appointed Minister of the State in 2011, serving as well as Deputy Prime Minister for State Administration from 2012 to 2014.

Berdzenishvili was appointed Prime Minister in 2014. His Premiership lasted eight years, until 2022, when he was replaced as Prime Minister by Bidzina Samkharadze, following the 2022 legislative election.

He was later appointed as a permanent member of the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan. He endorsed the Conservative Party in the 2024 legislative election.

Gela Berzenishvili belongs to the Dasavleta clan. He married Tsiuri Iashvili, from the Artsivi clan, in 1986. They have two sons, Okropir and Bidzina.




Levan Gamsakhurdia

Before entering politics, Levan Gamsakhurdia, served a a military officer in the armed forces, reaching the rank of General of the Army. His first political role was Secretary of Emergency Situations, under the Ministry of National Defense, from 1988 to 1996. Following the death of his uncle Shalva Gamsakhurdia, he was candidate to the National Assembly in his uncle's district, and elected in the 1999 election. He served as Minister of Public Works and Transport, from 2001 to 2003, and Minister of Public Order and Security from 2003 to 2008.

Prime Minister Gela Berdzenishvili appointed Gamsakhurdia as Minister of National Defense in 2014, as well as Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy and National Defense. In 2016, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister, considered 5th highest-ranking office in Mktvartvelo.

However, he resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 2020, following a corruption scandal in which was directly involed Anzor Gamsakhurdia, Levan's elder brother, governor of Gaqidvalisi, although he continued in his roles as Minister of National Defense and Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy and National Defense until 2022.




Otar Keburia

Otar Keburia is a former prosecutor and politician. He began a career as prosecutor in 2002, aged 23. He was given a position in Chiaiki provincial court. He was elected to Khashumi local council in 2010. He only served one term and he run as candidate to the National Assembly in 2015. Keburia would be reelected in 2019, and he was appointed by Prime Minister Gela Berzenishvili as Minister of Housing and Social Policy the same year. In early 2021, he was promoted as Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy as well. He would leave the government in 2022, following the appointment of Bidzina Samkharadze as Prime Minister.

Otar Keburia is married and has two children. His uncle, Mamuka Keburia, serves in the Council of State.

In 2023, he was appointed as Minister of Healthcare in Prime Minister Gocha Mokleadze's short-lived government.


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Premiership of Bidzina Samkharadze, 2022-2023



Bidzina Samkharadze
Birth1967
ClanLinkse
TitleHis Excellency Prime Minister
EducationState University of Azavrelia, degree on History, master's degree on Modern Economic History
Political affiliationLiberal Democratic Party
RolesMember of the National Assembly; Prime Minister (2022-2023)
FamilyParents: Gocha Kikabidze (1936-2001) and Tsiuri Samkharadze (1944-2018)
Spouse(s): Lali Nakashidze (1974)
Issues: Lasha Nakashidze (2000), Mzia Nakashidze (2004), and Lela Nakashidze (2007)
BiographyBefore entering politics, Samkharadze was known as a scholar. He has published several books, on national development, regional history, and economic history, and has taught in several higher education centers in Mktvartvelo. He would be elected to the National Assembly for first time in 2008. He was reelected in 2013 and 2018.

As a lawmaker, Samkharadze was consider one with a reformist and liberal record, being associated with the so-called "Liberal Wing" of the National Assembly. He has expressed support for electoral and political reforms, although after 2016 his initiatives were mostly focused on the fields of economic policy, administrative reform, and industrial development.

On early 2022, Brzdmtsveli Ketevan, following the resignation of Prime Minister Gela Berdzenishvili, announced the appointment of Samkharadze as Prime Minister, despite the latter lack of political experience in government positions. Samkharadze's first administration has been described as a "liberal-nationalist coalition". His government introduced several social and liberal policies,  increasing both social and defense spending. After a setback of legislative defeats and in the middle of a wave of violent student protests, Samkharadze resigned as Prime Minister on July 2023, barely one year and a half after his appointment.




Aka Goglidze

Born in Khoqaro in 1978, Aka Goglidze obtained a technical degree on social studies in the State College of Samtrisi in 1998. She joined the armed forces in 1999, where she would eventually reach the rank of Major. In 2006, she graduated in the University of Khaskhumi. From 2009 to 2011, she taught in Baghdatsgaro Academy of War Studies.

Goglidze joined the Ministry of State in 2018. She served as Minister of Immigration Policy in Bidzina Samkharadze's government from 2022 to 2023. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2024, as a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party.

She is married and has two children.




Lasha Katsarava

Lasha Katsarava is a retired military officer and diplomat. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2013, serving as General Director for Strategic Planning of the ministry in 2019. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by Bidzina Samkharadze.




Eto Kvachantiradze

Eto Kvachantiradze worked in the Engineering and Electricity Division of MKT Energia from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2018, she worked for Mkt-NaMoGaz, a state-owned energy company. In 2019, she joined the Ministry of Energy as a business consultant.

Kvachantiradze served as Minister of Energy from 2022 to 2023 in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government.




Zviad Kotrikadze

A prominent member of the Moderate faction in the National Assembly, Zviad Kotrikadze was appointed Minister of Public Works and Transport by Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze. He served until the end of Prime Minister Samkharadze's government in July 2023. He would later join Moderate Alignment.




Merab Arakishvili

Merab Arakishvili is a former tennis player and politician. As a tennis player, he has won the Mktvartvelian National Tennis Championship four times, in 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2012.

He retired in 2014. He worked as a coach from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, he obtained a 2-month degree on Business and Administration in the Regional College of Martvila, a private university. He was deputy president of the Mktvartvelian Tennis Federation from 2016 to 2020. Arakishvili strongly advocated for the professionalization of tennis in Mktvartvelo during his tenure. He run as candidate to become president of the tennis federation but was defeated in a close election.

In 2017, he founded, along a group of businessmen and investors, Momavali Investment, a sports and media investment company, which has invested in sports events in Coft Aranye, as well as offering legal advice to sportpeople and clubs.

In early 2022, Arakishvili was appointed Minister of Sports and Civic Education, declaring that his efforts as minister will be focused in the promotion of sports in the youth and the professionalization and consolidation of sports in Mktvartvelo. He left the government on July 2023.




Eldar Baqiladze

Eldar Baqiladze, an ethnic Kychma, was born in Dedoplisaghi in 1957. He was appointed by Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze as Minister of Telecommunications and Information in 2022, serving until July 2023.

Baqiladze would be elected to the National Assembly as a candidate for National Renovation in 2024.




Tinatin Chelnokidze

Tinatin Chelnokidze worked as personal secretary for former Prime Minister Shalva Sapiradze, who at the time was a member of the Council of State. In 2016, she was elected to the National Assembly.

Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze appointed Chelnokidze as Minister of Administative Affairs, following a government reshuffle after Anzor Papuashvili resigned for being involved in a political scandal. She served until July 2023.


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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2021, 08:40:59 PM »


Office of the Brzdmtsveli




Gocha Gvasalia

Gocha Gvasalia is a Mktvartvelian civil servant. He studied Law in the University of Tsnumi. He joined the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information in 1989. In 1994, he was appointed as General Administrator of the National Heritage. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Secretary for the Office of the Brzdmtsveli, under Brzdmtsveli Endzela Shengelaia. In 2004, he was appointed as head administrator of the Shoreuli Sakhli Palace, one of the official residences of the Brzdmtsveli.

He would be appointed Secretary of the Office of the Brzdmtsveli for a second time by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan Chakhava in 2022. Gvasalia has six children.




Nano Tsabaurashvili

Nano Tsabaurashvili's parents served as employees for the Nioradze family, particularly for Darejan Nioradze. From 2007 to 2010, she joined a trade school in Azavrelia. She married Shalva Paliashvili in 2011. From 2012 to 2016, the couple lived in Tsnumi.

She worked for Dakhmareba Group, a service company associated to the Mtsqemsi clan, from 2017 to 2021. She became assistant in the Office of the Brzdmtsveli in 2022.


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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2021, 10:13:12 PM »


The Order of Simartlea



Tsiuri Kavsadze
Birth1974
ClanMdinare clan
TitleSinatdedopali (Head of the Order of Simartlea)
EducationOrdered priestess in 1996; State College of Tetritsori, degree on History and Doctrine of the Order of Simartlea (1998-2001),
RolesHigh Priestess of the Order of Simartlea (2010-2020); Head Priestess of the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani (since 2020); Supreme Priestess of the Order of Simartlea (since 2020)
FamilyParents: Merab Zakariadze (1946) and Nino Bardanashvili (1949)
Spouse(s): None
Issues: None
BiographyTsiuri Kavsadze was born in a family from Kutatsqaro which belonged to the Mdinare clan. She joined a religious school in her hometown at the age of 12, and was accepted as religious apprentice at the age of 14 in a temple in the same province. She became pristess in the same temple at the age of 22. She completed her theological studies in the State College of Tetritsori.

In 2010, she became High Priestess of the Order of Simartlea, moving to the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani. Following the death of her predecessor, she was elected Sinatdedopali -also known as Supreme Priestess-, in 2020, becoming head of the Order of Simartlea at the age of 46.




Elodeba Ketilgantshivili
Birth1978
ClanChakuchi
TitleHigh Priestess of the Order of Simartlea
EducationOrdered priestess in 2000; Holy College of Tsakha, degree on Simartlean Rites (2011)
RolesHigh Priestess of the Order of Simartlea (since 2014)
FamilyParents: Shalva Balguridze (1950) and Natela Abuladze (1956)
Spouse(s): none
Issues: none
BiographyElodeba Ketilgantshivili (born Elodeba Abuladze) was ordered priestess in 2000, after she joined a temple consacrated to the Shavrinveli goddess. She moved to another temple consacrated to the same goddess in 2008. She completed her theological studies in 2011. In 2012, she joined the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani, being appointed High Priestess of the Order of Simartlea in 2014. She became senior High Priestess following the election of High Priestess Tsiuri as Sinatdedopali in 2020.

She is single and has no children.




Eter Rachvelishvili
Birth1983
ClanGhorini
TitleHigh Priestess
EducationHoly College of Martvilisi
RolesHigh Priestess of the Order of Simartlea; Priestess at the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani
FamilyParents: Tornike Tarishvili (1945) and Darejana Dolidze (1947) 
Spouse(s): None
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BiographyEter Rachvelishvili was born in the town of Akhal. The second daughter of a family from the Ghorini clan, both of her parents were lawyers. She joined a religious school at age 13, one year later than usual. In 2006, she became a religious apprentice at a temple consacrated to Kariani, the Wind King, nearby Dushelisi, in northwestern Mktvartvelo. She was ordered priestess in the same temple in 2009.

She moved to Martvilisi in 2011, where she completed her religious education in the Holy College of Martvilisi. She took a second apprenticeship in a temple consacrated to Dalotsvili Dedopali in a nearby town. She moved to a temple associated to the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani in 2015. She became a representative in the General Assembly of the Order of Simartlea, a consulative body, in 2017. After Tsiuri Kavsadze became Sinatdedopali in 2020, she officially joined the Shrine of Dalotsvili Shadrevani, being appointed as High Priestess of the Order of Simartlea a few weeks later.

 




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National Assembly




Ramaz Kintsurashvili

Ramaz Kintsurashvili is a Mktvartvelian politician. In 1979, he was elected to the local council in Gorania. 1986, he joined the provincial assembly of Gorania, serving until 1994. In 1995, Kintsurashvili was elected to the National Assembly. He was served as a member of the National Assembly since them, excluding from 2001 to 2005, when he served as prefect for the Prefecture of Khashumi.

He served as Deputy Minister of Energy from 1999 to 2001. He was appointed as Prefect in Khaskhumi from 2001 to 2005. In 2006, he returned to the National Assembly. He has been reelected in every reelection since them. He served as Minister of Administrative Affairs from 2008 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Minister of State as well.

Despite joining the national government in a conservative-leaning administration, Kintsurashvili was considered one of the leading members of the Moderate faction of the National Assembly. He served for 14 months in Prime Minister Gela Berzenishvili's government and after leaving the government, he was actively both supportive and critical of many government initiatives.

In February 2022, following the 2677 legislative elections, he was elected as President of the National Assembly. He remained President of the National Assembly until February 2024.

Ramaz Kintsurashvili is married to Tamriko Abasheli, from the Ghorini clan. They have had five children. Their daughter Manana died in 2018.

Ramaz Kintsurashvili was elected as President of the Moderate Party in 2024.




Tamaz Eksanishvili

Tamaz Eksanishvili is a politician, rumoured to have ties with the "Mktvartvelian Brotherhood", a controversial organization, and President of the National Assembly since 2024.

After finishing the military service, he enlisted in the armed forces, serving until 2008. He worked for a security firm until he graduated in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he joined a corporate law firm and became an investor, particularly involved in technology and information companies. He would be elected to the National Assembly in 2017. He was reelected in the 2022 legislative election.

Eksanishvili is a descendant of Tamaz Kakadze, an influential Mktvartvelian politician in early 20th century. Eksanishvili is also known for being allegedly a member of the Mktvartvelian Brotherhood, a controversial cultural and political organization. He is married and has two children.

He joined the Coalition of the True Right in early 2024. He was elected President of the National Assembly following the 2024 legislative election.


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Council of State




Vakhtang Tsiskaridze

Vakhtang Tsiskaridze comes from a prominent family of the Isari clan. His father held important positions in Otar Zakhariadze's administration in the 1960s, serving as head of Laparaki Inc., Mktvartvelo's largest telecommunication state company. Vakhtang Tsiskaridze married Manana Varazashvili, from the Gadasakhadi clan, in 1977. Her wife's grandfather was a high-ranking military officer in Mktvartvelo's armed forces, having served in the National War.

He was Deputy Director in Dazogali Bank, a commercial bank, when he was appointed to the Council State in 2004 by the National Assembly. From 2006 to 2009, he also served as Minister of Trade, Science, and Industry. In 2010, he was appointed a permanent member of the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Tamaz Japharidze, following the death of Zviad Gogibedashvili.

Vakhtang Tsiskaridze became Chairman of the Council of State in 2017.

Vakhtang Tsiskaridze has seven children and eleven grandchildren.




Makvala Bendukidze

Makvala Bendukidze was born in 1970 in a wealthy family from the Dasavleta clan. After finishing her studies, she joined an investment fund and lived abroad from 1996 to 2002. She returned to Mktvartvelo and joined Ktsatskuri National University, where she completed a master's degree on Finance and Administration. In 2005, she joined Umaghlesi College, an elite business school in Ktsatskuri, as a visiting lecturer.

She joined the board of directors of Valutha Bank in 2008. A year later, she married politician Anzor Abuladze, with whom she has had three children. She became CEO of Mktvartvelian Airlines, the country's largest airline company, in 2014. She is also the Deputy Chairman of Tsyn Investment Fund since 2018.

Makvala Bendukidze is a distant relative of former Prime Minister Gela Berdzenishvili. She is considered one of the richest people in Mktvartvelo, according to independent rankings. Bendukidze was appointed to the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan in 2022.




Mamuka Keburia

Mamuka Keburia is a businessman and politician. He is the son of Revaz Vachnadze, a prosecutor from Tsakha, and Nino Keburia, who came from a family with prominent member of the administration and religious judges, such as Shalva Keburia, Nino's uncle, who was prominent scholar on the Order of Simartlea, as well as magistrate for three decades.

The young Mamuka decided to pursue a different career, and joined the University of Sachkhumi. He started to work as a technician for a communication company in 1983. At the same time, he was involved in different projects until he founded KebuDaZak Inc., a telecommunication company. The company was reestructured and renamed as Rvapekha Industries in 1988, which would evolve to become the first semiconductor chip manufacturer in Mktvartvelo. By 1990, Mamuka became the third millonaire under 35.

In 1997, he married Lali Orbeladze, from the Gabedi clan. In 1999, he was appointed to the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Endzela Shengelaia, for his reputation as entrepreneur. He left Rvapekha Industries in 2011, although he remained a large shareholder in the company.

He was rumoured as a possible candidate to Prime Minister in 2014, shortly before the appointment of Gela Berdzenishvilii in that role. He has also being involved in the Directorate of National Education, along her wife Lali Orbeladze, who has being involved as donor to several private colleges.

His son Gela, who had been suffering from a nervous system disorder since the age of 10, died in 2019.

He joined Prime Minister Gocha Mokleadze's government as Minister of State in 2023, serving as First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for State Administration. However, the government barely survived ten days. He served as caretaker Prime Minister for several days on July 2023, following Prime Minister Gocha Mokladze's resignation. He was replaced by Shota Samadashvili, after Samadashvili was appointed as Prime Minister by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan. In 2024, he joined the Conservative Party.
 




Zviad Ghoghoberidze

Zviad Ghoghoberidze is a politician, former President of the National Assembly for ten years. He was elected to the National Assembly for first time in 1990, he would be reelected in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. Ghoghoberidze has served as Minister of Economic Development from 2002 to 2006, Minister of Public Works and Transport from 2006 to 2009, and Minister of Energy from 2010 to 2011.

He was elected President of the National Assembly in 2012, serving until 2022.

He was appointed to the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan a few months after being replaced as President of the National Assembly by Ramaz Kintsurashvili.


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Armed Forces




Merab Dvalishvili

Merab Dvalishvili is a retired Mktvartvelian General who served as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces from 2019 to 2023. On July 2023, he was appointed Minister of National Defense in Prime Minister Shota Samadashvili's national government. However, he resigned four days later, arguing "difference in opinion and expectations". Prime Minister Samadashvili would resign in less than 48 hours later, as a wave of resignations of military officers and ministries officials followed the next day. 

Dvalishvili became CEO of Momavali Inc., one of the most important Mktvartvelo's market research and polling companies, on August 2023.




Brdzeni Kvirkvelia

Brdzeni Kvirkvelia is a military officer, with the rank of General, and politician. He graduated as infantry in 1997, and served in the 1st Parachute Regiment in the armed forces. In 2020, he reached the rank of General and was appointed as Deputy Chief of the Army. He was also appointed as Chief of the Regional Directorate of the Azavrelia Region. He also served as Inspector General of the Army in the Joint General Staff of the armed forces.

On July 2023, he was appointed as Prime Minister by Brzdmtsveli Ketevan, after he had been nominated as Prime Minister by the National Assembly leadership. He had no previous experience in politics, and there was not much known about his ideological leanings or policy preferences before his appointment as Prime Minister. During his first months as Prime Minister, legislative and religious reforms, such as as the Civic Reform Act and the State Reform for Religious Freedom and Social Integration Act as well as the establishment of the Permanent Committee for Labour and Social Advancement, an advisory council.

Following the 2024 legislative election, Kvirkvelia's government included ministers from National Renovation and the left-leaning nationalist Social National Party.




Otar Gedevanishvili

Otar Gedevanishvili is a military officer with the rank of general. He became the Director of the General Staff Communications Directorate in 2020, later appointed as Deputy Director of Intelligence Bureau of the Army, serving as adviser of military intelligence for both Prime Ministers Gela Berdzenishvili and Bidzina Samkharadze. In 2023, he was appointed as Chief General of the Army.

On July 2023, he became Chief of the General Staff, replacing General Merab Dvalishvili. However, he resigned the morning on July 21. He was appointed as Minister of National Defense by Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia. In 2024, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy and National Defense as well.




Mukhran Khandztadze

Mukhran Khandztadze completed her military formation in the Sighnaki Military Academy. He graduated in the State College for National Security and Foreign Policy in 2003, he joined the Directorate of Military Information. He headed an anti-smuggling unit from 2007 to 2011, before leaving the Directorate in 2012. In 2013, he gave courses on military intelligence in the State College for National Security and Foreign Policy. He became visiting scholar in the State College for National Security and Foreign Policy, giving lectures on military history from 2016 to 2019.

Khandztadze was appointed advisor to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for State Security in 2023. In early 2024, he was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Office of the Prime Minister.




Kargi Nasaridze

Kargi Nasaridze is a Mktvartvelian military officer. He joined the armed forces in 2002, completing his formation in the Department of Foreign Languages of the Baghdatsgaro Academy of War Studies. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 2018. In 2019, he joined the security service of the Brzdmtsveli (Mktvartvelo's head of state). He continued in that role until late 2022.

In 2006, Nasaridze married Marlena Metreveli, from the Gadasakhadi clan. Metreveli is General Levan Gamsakhurdia's niece. At the time of the wedding, Gamsakhurdia was serving as Minister of Public Order and Security.

Nasaridze joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as commissioned officer on October 2023. He speaks four foreign languages. Nasaridze was appointed ambassador to the Great Kingdom of Asadal in 2024.


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Society




Baia Lasha Nioradze

Baia Lasha Nioradze, commonly known as Lasha Nioradze, is a prominent socialite from Azavrelia. She comes from an important political family from the Metevze clan. Her grandfather, Lasha Sabatsmindeli, a military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1911 to 1919, while his uncle Shalva Nioradze served as Prime Minister under Brzdmtsveli Goga Shengelia. Her father had been elected to the National Assembly at the age of 26, in 1944, and was appointed Deputy Minister of National Security. However, he was killed in a terrorist attack a few months before Baia Lasha Nioradze was born.

Baia Lasha Nioradze married Gocha Peradze, from the Mtsqemsi clan, who is well-known for being the owner of "Namdvili Dghiuri", one of the most important daily newspapers in Azavrelia. They have had seven children together, with Nioradze focusing in her role as mother as well as participating in many social activities. She participated in several charity telethons for Arkhi-4 television channel, from 1999 to 2012. She was also very prominent in charity and fundraising events in Azavrelia and Ktsatskuri since the 1990s. In 1998, along her aunt Sofiko Bagrationi, founded the Akhali Shansi Foundation, a non-profit charity organizations focused on children, particularly providing shelter to orphans and funds and grants to boys and girls from broken homes. In 2007, she became Chairman of the Akhali Shansi Foundation.

Her daughter Bedisa married Bidzina Chakhava, Ketevan Chakhava's brother, in 2006. Ketevan would become highly involved in Nioradze's foundation since them, becoming President of Honour of Akhali Shansi Foundation in 2017. As she slowly withdrew from active duties in the following years, Nioradze was elected as President of Honour of Akhali Shansi Foundation in 2024, being replaced as Chairman of the foundation by her daughter Bedisa.


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Business and Finance




Ketilshobili Shengelaia

Ketilshobili Shengelaia was born in 1958 in Ktsatskuri, into the Shengelaia family, one of the wealthiest families in Mktvartvelo's families at the time, in the influential Ertviani clan.

She enrolled in the University of Azavrelia although she interrupted her studies in 1978 to get married with Malkhaz Ptskialadze, from the Mstiani clan. She finally graduated with a degree of Law in the University of Azavrelia in 1988. She joined Abreshuminet as an intern, later becoming Director General of Operations in 1992. Along her husband, she established Gaghviveba Industries in 1994, which was later incorporated into Gunia Holding.

From 1997 to 2012, she was mostly focused on her family, and had a more secondary role compared to her husband, which was appointed Deputy Chairman of Gunia Holding in 1999. In 2014, however, she became CEO of Shengelaia Fund, an investment company founded and owned by her family. She's currently Chairman of Shengelaia Fund, as well as serving in the board of directors of Gunia Holding.

After the death of her mother and her sister, Ketilshobilii is both the head of the Shengelaia family and even informally considered as "the matriarch" of the Ertviani clan.




Okropir Djorbenadze

Okropir Djorbenadze was born in Azavrelia in 1956. His father Bidzina Sarakhisvili was an economist scholar, professor in the National University of Azavrelia and Chairman of the Central Bank, while her mother came from an important family from southeast Mktvartvelo. In 1986, Okropir joined Propilebi Insurance, where he worked until 1999. In 2001, he joined the board of directors of Msubuk, Mktvartvelo's largest mining corporation. In 2009, he replaced his uncle Vazha Djorbenadze as CEO of the company.

Okropir is married with Natela Khmaladze, from the Tskhvari clan. They have four children.



Levan Tsiklauri

Levan Tsiklauri is a businessman, founder of Tavisupleba Group.

Tsiklauri was born in 1974 in Abakha. He showed an early interests in journalism, as he started writing articles for a local sports newspaper when he was only 19 years old. He completed his studies in Industrial Engineering in 1998. In 2003, he left the family business to establish with two partners Tavisupleba Investment after they acquired a local radio station. In 2013, the company acquired MKT-AA Radio, which had been launched two years before but which was facing increasing debts. The radio increased considerably their listeners in the following year and in 2015, the company was renamed as Tavisupleba Group, after the radio was expanded nationwide and Tsiklauri and his partners acquired two more radio stations.

Tsiklauri found himself involved in a controversy after Dazverva newspaper and Moedani Radio reported that he had a tense conversation with Mukhran Khandztadze, Chief of Staff of the Office of the Prime Minister, in which the Mktvartvelian official allegedly threatened Tsiklauri with legal consequences regarding a business agreement with Tsarmoshoba Entertainment.


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Media




Nino Gamrekeli

Nino Gamrekeli is a journalist and TV presenter. She is Avtandil Gamrekeli's sister.

Nino started her career on TV in 2008, working as a reporter for ERT, the national radio and television broadcaster. She was the morning news presenter from 2011 to 2014. She was in a leave of absence from 2014 to 2017. That year, she returned as TV presenter in a sport show. Six month later, she would start as TV presenter in a new show, "Bolo Pikrebi", which combined entertainment and interviews with well-known guests such as celebrities, artists, and politicians. Although it started with mixed ratings, the show would consolidate and becoming most viewed show in ERT. It was revealed in 2021 that her salary was $1.4 million under her new contract, making her the most paid journalist in Mktvartvelo.

She has received several prizes for her role as journalist in the last years. Nino has also had guest appearances in several TV series and movies. She is married and has three children.

Gamrekeli left ERT in 2024, starting a new program in Channel 7 in early 2024.




Avtandil Gamrekeli

Avtandil Gamrekeli joined Akhali Khashumi, a daily newspaper in Khaskhumi, in 2000. In 2005, he lived abroad, where he completed a degree in Communication Studies. He returned to Mktvartvelo in 2014, joining ERK, a state-owned radio network. He married Mzia Tsiskaridze, from the Isari clan, in 2015. They have had two children since then. He was appointed Director of ERK in 2018. He served in that role until September 2022.

Avtandil's wife, Mzia Tsiskaridze, is Chairman Vakhtang Tsiskaridze's niece. Avtandil is also Nino Gamrekeli's brother.




Irakli Helimishadze

Irakli Helimishadze moved to Ktsatskuri in 1997, where he worked for a petrochemical company until 2002, when he enrolled in a master's degree on Journalism in the National College of Ktsatskuri in a course sponsodred by the Sakin Foundation. In 2004, she joined Dazverva newspaper where he worked for a year in the business section. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as correspondent abroad for the same newspaper. From 2009 to 2012, he returned to Mktvartvelo as parliamentary correspondent for Dazverva newspaper. He also appeared often in radio talk shows, particularly on international and legislative issues.

From 2012 to 2014, he worked as consultant for the State Association of Journalists. He moved back to his hometown, Dedoplisaghi, in 2014, where he become in editor-in-chief in a local newspaper, until 2015. That year, he joined KTV, a commercial television channel, as consultant and producer, in his first venture in television.

In September 2022, he was appointed Director of ERT, the state radio and television broadcasting company in Mktvartvelo. He was Director of ERT until for twelve months. On October 2023, he became Deputy Head of Communications of ATI-TV, a private television channel owned by Sakin Media Group.




Goga Kapanadze

Goga Kapanadze is a journalist and writer. After being a reporter for several local newspapers, Kapanadze joined Akheli Ambebi, one of the leading newspapers in Mktvartvelo, in 1999. He became Akheli Ambebi deputy director in 2005 a position which he would hold until 2023. He continued to write opinion articles, first daily and later weekly, from April to October 2023. That month, Kapanadze announced he was leaving Akheli Ambebi after twenty-four years.

Kapanadze is mostly known for his cutting style and his conservative views. He has often attacked and denounced the moderate and liberal factions of the National Assembly, as well as liberal-minded members of the judiciary and business. Kapanadze has also written several books, mostly about political and cultural issues, and two novels.



Zviad Gudashvili

Zviad Gudashvili is a journalist. He was editor-in-chief for Eko newspaper, a local newspaper based in Azavrelia, from 2011 to 2016. After Mktvartveli Media Group acquired the newspaper and decided to launch a new nationwide newspaper, Erovnuli Eko, on April 2024, Gudashvili was hired as editor-in-chief of the newspaper.


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Judiciary



Irma Gordeli
Birth1959
ClanMela
TitleKanonisarabeli
EducationOrdered priestess in 1980; State College of Kutatsqaro, degree on Simartlean Doctrine (1988); Holy College of Azavrelia, title on Religious Jurisprudence (2010)
RolesChairman of the High Court of Appeal
FamilyParents: Gaiktsa Gegelia (1928-2007) and Nano Gokieli (1933-2001)
Spouse(s): None
Issues: None
BiographyIrma Gordeli was born in Avispopeli, a small town nearby Ktsatskuri, in 1959, in a family belonging to the Mela clan. She joined a religious residence at age 12, and became a priestess in 1980, in a temple consacrated to Mamtsvari. A member of the General Assembly of the Order of Simartlea, a consultive body, since 1990, she was appointed to the Supreme Committee of the Order in 2001.

In 2009, she retired from priesthood, becoming a religious magistrate in 2014. She has been a judge in a religious court in Azavrelia, from 2014 to 2019, until she was appointed to the High Court of Appeal, the highest religious court, in 2019. In 2020, she was granted the title of Kanonisarabeli (meaning "bearer of law"), which is considered to have a status of nobility title. In 2022, she became Chairman of the High Court of Appeal.

After leaving the priesthood, Gordeli has remained single and she has no children.


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Vazha Virsaladze
Birth1989
ClanArtsivi
TitleNone
EducationNational University of Azavrelia, degree in International Relations; State University of Ktsatskuri, master's degree in International Law
Political affiliation        National Renovation
RolesDirector of the North-Western Region (2020-2021), Minister of International Trade and Cooperation (2023)
FamilyParents: Imeda Alagianishvili (1960) and Darejan Virsaladze (1964)
Spouse(s): Vardo Tsintsadze (1990)
Issues: None
BiographyVazha Virsaladze is the son of a high-ranking military officer. After finishing his studies in International Relations in 2011, he rejoined the military service, serving in the armed forces until 2015. In 2017, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2018 to 2020, he served in several consulates and embassies in Coft Aranye. He was appointed Director of the North-Western Region in 2020. In 2021, he joined the Ministry of Defense.

He married Vardo Tsintsadze, from the Mezghvauri clan, in 2020.

Virsaladze served as Minister of International Trade and Cooperation, in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government, from March to July 2023. He was again appointed as Minister of International Trade and Cooperation in 2024 in Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia's government.




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Shalva Virsaladze
Birth1978
ClanArtsivi
TitleNone
EducationNational University of Azarelia, degree on Law and master's degree on Administrative Law
Political affiliation        National Renovation
RolesDeputy Mayor of Azavrelia (2014-2022)
Mayor of Azavrelia (2022-2024)
Member of the Council of State
FamilyParents: Imeda Alagianishvili (1960) and Darejan Virsaladze (1964)
Spouse(s): Gulisa Paliashvili (1981)
Issues: Levan Paliashvili (2009), Gela Paliashvili (2013), and Natela Paliashvili (2015)
BiographyShalva Virsaladze is Imeda Alagianishvili's elder son. Unlike his father, a prominent military officer, he became a state lawyer, in the Ministry of Justice, in 2004.

In 2009, he was elected as councillor to Akhlotsertili, a town nearby Azavrelia, being elected to Azavrelia provincial assembly. In 2012, he run to Azavrelia local council election. In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Mayor of Azavrelia. He became Mayor of Azavrelia in 2022. He run to the Council of State as National Renovation in the 2024 legislative election.

He is married with Gulisa Paliashvili, whom he has three children, two sons and a daughter. He is Vazha Virsaladze's brother.




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Gulisa Paliashvili
Birth1981
ClanMezghvauri
TitleNone
EducationUniversity of Tsnumi, degree on Geography and History
Political affiliation        National Renovation
Roles General Director of Akhali Leksebi (2017-2024)
Minister of Education
FamilyParents: Levan Zakariadze (1949-2016) and Bedna Paliashvili (1954)
Spouse(s): Shalva Virsaladze (1978)
Issues: Levan Paliashvili (2009), Gela Paliashvili (2013), and Natela Paliashvili (2015)
BiographyGulisa Paliashvili is the daughter of writer and filmmaker Levan Zakariadze, who also served as representative in the Council of State from 1997 until his death. Her uncle was also a prominent military officer who served in the armed forces' General Staff from 1994 to 2008.

Gulisa Paliashvili was a teacher in a high school in Tsnumi from 2005 to 2008, where she moved to Azavrelia after marrying Shalva Virsaladze, from the Artvisi clan, with whom she would have three children.

She was briefly assistant professor in the University of Azavrelia from 2012 to 2013. She became General Director of Akhali Leksebi, a publishing house based in Azavrelia, in 2017. She lives between Azavrelia and Ktsatskuri, as Akhali Leksebi sponsored a bookshop in the capital city in late 2019. She also joined the Directorate of National Education in 2020.

She was appointed Minister of Education in 2024.



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Vardo Tsintsadze
Birth1990
ClanMezghvauri
TitleNone
EducationUniversity of Abakha, degree on Mktvartvelian Studies
RolesNone
FamilyParents: Orivegza Paliashvili (1951) and Manana Tsintsadze (1959)
Spouse(s): Vazha Virsaladze (1989)
Issues: Irakli Paliashvili (2022)
BiographyAfter finishing university, Vardo worked in several high schools in Dasavleteba province from 2014 to 2018. In 2019, she started to work as freelance translator. In 2020, she married Vazha Virsaladze, from the Artsivi clan. She moved to Azavrelia in 2020, as his husband was appointed Director of North-Western Region in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although she returned to her hometown for a few months in 2021 after her husband was involved in several diplomatic initiatives abroad for a few months. She would move to Ktsatskuri in 2021.

Vardo Tsintsadze is Gulisa Paliashvili's cousin. Her cousin Gulisa is also married to Vardo's brother-in-law, Shalva Virsaladze.




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National Renovation




Levan Mikaberidze

Levan Mikaberidze was born in Tbaghi, southern Mktvartvelo. After completing the military service, he moved to Dmaroni, where he would graduate after studying Law in the State College of Dmaroni. In 2005, he was elected to the Council of State but he was not reelected in 2011. In 2014, he joined Tsavs Talgha radio station, where he reported about judiciary and parliamentary issues.

On July 2023, he was appointed as Secretary for the Office of the Prime Minister. He resigned in November, and announced that he planned to run as a candidate to the National Assembly for the 2024 legislative elections. Several week laters, after he gave a number of conferences and meetings through the country, he became one of the founders of National Renovation (MKTERAG), a left-leaning nationalist political party which would be officially registered on December.

In their first congress in early 2024, Levan Mikaberidze was elected General Secretary of National Renovation, in the first national congress held in Sachkhumi. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2024 legislative election, becoming Speaker of the National Renovation parliamentary group.



Shalva Kazbegishvili

Shalva Kazbegishvili is a former police officer and politician. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2024 as a candidate in the pro-government National Renovation.

In March 2024, Kazbegishvili was appointed Minister of Administrative Affairs by Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia.





Eldar Baqiladze

Eldar Baqiladze, an ethnic Kychma, was born in Dedoplisaghi in 1957. Both his parents were state employees. He started his career as a journalist in a local newspaper. From 1984 to 1989, he worked for a small publishing house based in Tetritsori. From 1997 to 2004, he worked for Sakin Media. Then he joined Laparaki, a telecommunication company, leading their communication office until 2008. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as editor for a news program in Moedani Radio. He has also worked in different radio talk shows talking about political and contemporary affairs, particularly those related with legal issues and the media.

Although he had not previously experience in politics, he was appointed by Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze as Minister of Telecommunications and Information in 2022, serving until July 2023. Later, he expressed his support toward Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia.

He was elected to the National Assembly in 2024, as a candidate for the pro-government National Renovation.


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Liberal Democratic Party




Orivegza Mgaloblishvili

Orivegza Mgaloblishvili is a politician, Speaker of the Liberal Democratic Party parliamentary group in the National Assembly since 2024.

Mgaloblishvili belongs to the Gabedi clan, one of the most powerful clans in Mktvartvelo. He graduated in Economics in the State University of Ktsatskuri in 1996. In 1998, after completing military service, he joined Danazog Bank. In 2006, he obtained a degree in Law in the University of Azavrelia.

He joined the Ministry of the Treasury in 2010. In 2015, he left the Ministry to join Muneba Bank. In 2020, he was elected to the National Assembly. While he was associated to the Moderate faction in the parliament, his activity as member of the National Assembly remained mostly unnoticed.

In 2022, he was appointed Minister of the Treasury in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government. He was also appointed as Deputy Prime Minister for National Development and First Deputy Prime Minister, becoming the second highest-ranking member of the government just after Prime Minister Samkharadze himself. Following Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze resignation on July 2023, he served as caretaker Prime Minister for four days.

He joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 2023. Following the 2024 legislative election, Mgaloblishvili was elected as Speaker of the Liberal Democratic Party parliamentary group.




Tinatin Chelnokidze

Tinatin Chelnokidze was born in Abakha in 1981. She moved to Martvilisi in 1999, where she enrolled in Political Science at the local university. From 2000 to 2002, she also worked for "Sotsialuri Mimukhilva", a left-leaning political magazine. From 2003 to 2006, she lived abroad. She completed her studies in the University of Abakha, where she obtained a master's degree in Political Philosophy. She moved back to Martvilisi as she got married with Tariel Machaidze in 2008. They had a daughter in 2011.

From 2012 to 2014, she worked as personal secretary for former Prime Minister Shalva Sapiradze, who at the time was a member of the Council of State. In 2016, she was elected to the National Assembly. She was considered a member of the Liberal Wing of the National Assembly, and she gained some notoriety for his clashes with some ministers, particularly during the Gaqidvalisi corruption scandal. She was reelected in the 2022 legislative election.

A few months later, Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze appointed her as Minister of Administative Affairs, following a government reshuffle after Anzor Papuashvili resigned for being involved in a political scandal. She served until July 2023.

She joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 2023 and, after the 2024 legislative election, she was Orivegza Mgaloblishvili's main rival for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party. However, Mglaloblishvili would become Speaker of the Liberal Democratic Party parliamentary group after defeating Chelnokidze by 88-66. Chelnokidze became Head of the National Assembly parliamentary Commission of Home Affairs.




Veriko Gaprindashvili

Veriko Gaprindashvili is a lawyer and politician. She is the only daughter of Merab Melikishvili, a prominent unionist representative from Khashumi. She studied Law in the University of Khashumi, and joined a small law firm in 1993, starting her career in the labour courts under the mentorship of lawyer Zviad Genoshvili, who was closely associated with unions and working association. Graprindashvili gained soon a positive reputation for a long number of acquittals. Many of her clients were originally members of unions, human rights associations, civil organizations, consumers association as well as religious organizations, but by the end of the decade she moved toward criminal cases under a different law firm.

From 1999 to 2004, she served as deputy secretary of Khashumi Professional Association of Lawyers. She was elected by the National Assembly to serve as representative in the Council of State in 2008, after being nominated by a group of liberal-leaning MPs. She served in the Council of State until 2014. In 2016, she was elected to the National Assembly, being reelected in 2021. Her interventions in the National Assembly were mostly focused on judiciary system and legal reform.

After Bidzina Samkharadze was appointed Prime Minister, it was rumoured that she was a likely candidate to be appointed as Minister of Justice. However, she would be appointed as Minister of Admistrative Affairs instead. As minister, she played an important role in the drafting of the Voting Reform Act and the New Electoral Commission Act, legislation aimed to reform the electoral law and legislation on campaigning, respectively. Following the resignation of Anzor Papuashvili in a wiretapping scandal, Gaprindashvili left the Ministry of Administrative Affair and was appointed Minister of State. She was also appointed as Deputy Premier for State Administration until the end of Bidzina Samkharadze's government.




Veriko Kochladze

Veriko Kochladze is a lawyer and politician. Veriko worked for a law firm from 2002 to 2010. She also worked as legal consultant for an energy company from 2011 to 2014.

In 2015, she was elected to the National Assembly. She was particularly active in issues such as legal reform and administrative organization. She was reelected in 2020. She served in the Committee for Telecommunications and Information Technology, from 2021 to 2022.

From 2022 to 2023, she was appointed as Minister of Justice in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government. She joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 2023.




Tsiuri Mazniashvili

Tsiuri Mazniashvili was born in 1984 in Restejo, in southern Mktvartvelo. She moved to Azavrelia in 2002, enrolling in the Azavrelia Technical University. She graduated in Business Administration and Information Technology in 2007. She joined the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information as an intern that same year.

From 2006 to 2012, she was also involved for "Tetri Khelebi", an anti-corruption civic organization. She returned to Restejo in 2014, the same year she married Givi Maglakelidze, a lawyer from Tbaghi. They had a son in 2016.

She was elected to the Council of State in 2019. From 2022 to 2023, she served as Minister of Economic Development in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government.




Gocha Khoshtaria

Gocha Khoshtaria is a Mktvartvelian politician. He worked for a business consultancy firm from 2001 to 2010. He later worked as treasurer for a private university in Ozurkha.

He run as candidate to the Council of State in 2013, but he did not was elected. In 2015, he would be elected to the National Assembly, as candidate in Ozhurka. After joining the National Assembly, he worked along the Liberal faction of the parliament. While his interventions in the National Assembly have often being described as pro-business and liberal-leaning, he has also been very critical of the national government traditional doctrine on foreign policy during Gela Berdzenishvili's government. He expressed support toward the appointment of Bidzina Samkharadze as Prime Minister. However, he has also expressed criticism in certain policy decisions and appointments by Samkharadze's government. In 2023, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party.










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Conservative Party




Tariel Tavadze

Tariel Tavadze is a religious scholar, former judge, and politician. He was born in Khoqaro, southeast Mktvartvelo, in 1964. In 1997, he joined the University of Zugdilisi as assistant professor on religious law. In 2004, he became a judge, joining a religious court in Tetrumi.

Tavidze joined the High Court of Appeal, Mktvartvelo's court of last resort for religious matters, with authority over all religious courts, in 2009. He became Chairman of the High Court of Appeal in 2015. He was also a member of the Supreme Committe of the Order,  which is considered the executive council of the Order of Simartlea, from 2011 to 2013. Therefore, Tavidze was considered the highest-ranking male official in the Order of Simartlea at the time. In 2022, he was appointed Minister of Religious Affairs by Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze.

He continued serving as Minister of Religious Affairs under Gocha Mokleadze's short-lived national government, leaving the government following Mokleadze's resignation on July 2023.

He married Eter Nanitashvili, from the Tskhvari clan, in 1967. They have three children.

Tavadze joined the Conservative Party in late 2023, becoming candidate to the National Assembly in the 2024 legislative election. However, he failed to be elected to the National Assembly, as he finished third in his district.




Anzor Papuashvili

Anzor Papuashvili entered in politics in 2004, he had been previously a professor in a private college. That year, he was elected to Azavrelia local council. He served from 2004 to 2010. While he comes from a highly influential clan in Mktvartvelo, his first tenure in Azavrelia local politics was mostly unnoticed. In late 2010, he was appointed to the Council of State by the National Assembly.

In 2014, he was appointed as Mayor of Azavrelia. He served as mayor until 2022, when he was appointed Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister for State Administration in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government. However in August 2022, following his involvement in the middle of a wiretapping scandal, he resigned from the national government.

He rejoined the national government in 2023, during Prime Minister Gocha Mokleadze's short-lived government, in which he was appointed as Minister of Administrative Affairs. He run in the 2024 legislative election as candidate of the Conservative Party in Azavrelia second metropolitan district in the Council of State, but he failed to be elected, finishing fourth.


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Coalition of the True Right




Irakli Bneladze

Irakli Bneladze became a judge in 1996, in the Kobavi district, central Mktvartvelo, but left the judiciary to serve in Ktsatskuri Provincial Assembly from 2000 to 2005. In 2005, he was appointed by the National Assembly to serve a 6-year term in the Council of State. In 2011, he was elected to the National Assembly. He was reelected in 2016 and 2021.

Bneladze joined the ranks of the Conservative block in the National Assembly. He participated in the judiciary and national development permanent parliamentary commissions. In 2023, he run to the position of Speaker of the National Assembly, finishing runner-up after being defeated by incumbent Speaker Ramaz Kintsurashvili. He was highly critical of Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's national government, gaining prominence for his parliament arguments with members of the government or Prime Minister Samkharadze himself.

On July 2023, Bneladze joined Prime Minister Gocha Mokleadze's national government as Minister of Justice. He proposed the immediate expulsion of students arrested by expulsion in protests from the university. However, the government barely lasted ten days in power, and the proposal was not even discussed in the National Assembly.

He is married to Vardo Undiladze, from the Itsavsi clan. They have two daughters and one son.

In the months before the 2024 legislative election, Bneladze did not join the recently established Conservative Party, instead he was one of the founders of the Coalition of the True Right, becoming the first leader. Bneladze became Speaker of the Coalition of the True Right parliamentary group in 2024.




Zviad Alaverdashvili

Zviad is a former military officer and politician. Alaverdashvili enlisted to the armed forces in 1978, graduating in Guram Ananidze National Military Academy, in Senakha. He joined the Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral in 2010. He taught in the Tsagedia Military Academy from 2010 to 2014.

In 2014, he was appointed to the Council of State by Brzdmtsveli Tamaz Japharidze. He officially retired from service a few weeks later. In the Council of State, he was particularly focused on national security and foreign policy. His views were described as nationalist, particularly after the publication of the "Akhalikhazi Report" (2018), which he co-wrote. He has also expressed criticism toward proposed legislation aimed to expand and increase the freedom of religion in Mktvartvelo.

He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for State Security and and Minister of Public Order and Security in 2022, joining Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government. He resigned from the national government and rescinded his support, in disagreement with the Prime Minister's management of the wave of violent protests on Summer 2023. Following Samkharadze's resignation on July 2023, he was appointed as Minister of Justice in Prime Minister Gocha Mokleadze's short-lived national government.

He is married and has three children. He joined the Coalition of the True Right in early 2024.




Zviad Maichadze

Zviad Maichadze was born in a residential town nearby Ktsatskuri in 1981. After finishing the university, he worked in Ktsatskuri as minor assistant in the local government, until 2010. From 2012 to 2017, he worked for a lobbying firm. In 2020, he run as candidate in the legislative assembly, being elected to the National Assembly. He joined the Coalition of the True Right parliamentary group in 2024.

Her mother, Lela Maichadze, is a lawyer, member of the National Assembly from 1997 to 2019, and member of the Council of State since 2019. Zviad is married and has two children.



Mamuka Kurtukadze

Mamuka Kurtukadze was born in Ktsatskuri in ....His father, Levan Mkhardamchadze, was President of the National Assembly from 1971 to 1979, having an influencial role during the so-called "parliamentary dictatorship" period (1976-78).

Kurtukadze was elected to the National Assembly in 2001, being reelected four times. He belonged to the conservative faction of the National Assembly and in 2023, he joined the Conservative Party. However, following the 2024 legislative election, he left the Conservative Party to join the Coalition of the True Right parliamentary group.


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Moderate Alignment




Zviad Kotrikadze

Zviad Kotrikadze is a politician, Speaker of the Moderate parliamentary group since 2024.   

From 1981 to 1994, Zviad Kotrikadze worked as professor of organic chemistry in the University of Lagotsminda. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1994, being reelected in 1999, 2004, and 2009. From 2010 to 2016 he was elected to the Council of State. In 2017, he joined ZSD, an insurance corporation. However, he returned to politics in 2021, when he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate in Bolnomi.

In the past, he has served as Deputy Minister of Trade and Science (1996-1997), Minister of Agriculture (1997-1998), Minister of Public Works and Transport (2003-2005), and Minister of Labour (2011-2014), under four different Prime Ministers. In 2022, he was appointed as Minister of Public Works and Transport by Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze, becoming one of the ministers in Samkharadze's government with largest government experience. He served until the end of Prime Minister Samkharadze's government in July 2023.

He joined Moderate Alignment in late 2023, becoming Speaker of the Moderate parliamentary group in the National Assembly in 2024.



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Social National Party




Brdzeni Chavchavadze

Brdzeni Chavchavadze is a former military officer, writer and politician. Chavchavadze joined the armed forces, reaching the rank of Major, before retiring in 2003. He joined the Baghdatsgaro Academy of War Studies as professor in 2007. Previously, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Tsagedia. He has wrote three books on military studies.

He was elected to the National Assembly in 2013, being reelected in 2018. He was mostly focused on legislation regarding law enforcement and immigration policy. In foreign policy, he was critical of Prime Minister Gela Berdzenishvili's administration and Chavchavadze gained a reputation as one of the members of the nationalist faction in the National Assembly.

In 2022, he was appointed as Minister of National Security by Prime Minister Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze. He also was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Policy and National Defense, becoming one of the highest ranking ministers in Samkharadze's government. He was reelected for a third term in the National Assembly in 2023. He resigned from the government on late June 2023, a few days before Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze announced his resignation.

He joined the recently established Social National Party in 2023. In 2024, he became Social National Party parliamentary speaker in the National Assembly in 2024.



Irma Salabadze

Irma Salabadze is a sociologist and politician. Her mother was Minister of Healthcare from 1994 to 1997.

Salabadze was elected to the Tsakha provincial assembly in 2016, serving until 2019. She joined the Social National Party and she was elected to the National Assembly.

In March 2024, she was appointed as Minister of Housing and Social Policy.


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Radical Democratic Party




Nino Shalikashvili

Nino Shalikashvili is a politician, General Secretary of the Radical Democratic Party since 2024.

Nino Shalikashvili was born in Gorani, in 1978. At the time, her grandfather was governor in the province. She moved to Khashumi, in northern Mktvartvelo, in 1996, where she enrolled in the local university. She moved to Azavrelia in 2004. She became assistant professor in the University of Azavrelia in 2007. In 2008, she married Avtandil Gabashvili, from the Mkhedari clan. Her father, Malkhaz Burchuladze, was a member of the National Assembly from 1992 to 2008, and has been mayor of Azavrelia, Mktvartvelo's largest city, from 2010 to 2014.

In 2019, Nino was elected to the National Assembly. In 2020, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Housing and Social Policy.

She and her husband have two children, born in 2009 and 2013, respectively.

She joined the Radical Democratic Party, and became the Radical Democratic Party parliamentary spokesperson in the National Assembly in 2024.




Eter Vazhkania

Eter Vazhkania is a social activist and politician.

Eter Vazhkania completed her studies in the University of Azavrelia in 2020. She had a prominent role in the youth movement of protests in Autumn 2022. She would be elected to the National Assembly in the 2023 legislative election, several months later. She was previously an intern in the Faculty of History of the University of Azavrelia as well as working as a shop assistant in a bookshop.

Vazhkania campaigned on a left-leaning platform, supporting more advanced political reforms and secularism, as well as left-wing orientation on economic issues. During her first year in the parliament, he was considered part of the Left Block in the National Assembly. She was highly critical of Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government for its management of the wave of protests during 2023. She expressed support for the protests and student organizations, although she condemned the use of violence. More recently, she supported a manifesto calling for a written constitution and was critical of the social agenda of Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia.

Vazhkania is married without children.

Vazhkania joined the Radical Democratic Party in late 2023.


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Merab Dekanozishvili

Merab Dekanozishvili is an union leader and politician. He was born in Ozurkha, although his family moved to Tsagari when he was four years old. After he finished military service, he moved to Jvarisi, where he joined the State University of Jvarisi. He enrolled in Economics but he dropped out after a year. He returned to Tsagari, where he worked in a factory for several years.

In 2002, he joined the trade school and became a MSRK employee in 2005. In 2009, he run as candidate to the National Assembly but failed to be elected, finishing fifth in his electoral district. The same year, he was elected an union representative as a member of the Federation of Railway and Transport Union, which was part of the Confederation of Professional Unions. He joined the national board of the Confederation of Professional Unions in 2011. He moved to Ktsatskuri the next year, when he became a permanent union representative. He would run as a candidate to the National Assembly for second time in 2017, but he failed to be elected again (this time, he finished second in a different electoral district).

Dekanozishvili was elected Deputy Chairman of the Federation of Railway and Transport Union in 2018. However, he resigned in 2020. He led a splinter group and joined the All-Mktvartvelian Labour Union (SMSK). He joined the executive committee of the SMSK in 2021. In 2022, he was elected as General Secretary of the All-Mktvartvelian Labour Union.

Although he run as a pro-union and socially conservative candidate in the 2009 election, Dekanozishvili's ideology has considerably moved toward left-wing positions, endorsing secularism and a constitutional convention in 2017. More recently, he has criticized the labour legal system in Mktvartvelo, calling for fewer restrictions in arbitration between unions and companies and constitutional recognition to the right to strike.

On November 2023, he was sentenced to a two-year prison sentence for violation of the labour code during the 2022 national strike. Ten days later, he was replaced as General Secretary of the All-Mktvartvelian Labour Union.

After being released from prison in 2024, he was one of the co-founders of the Labour Party, a left-wing political party.



Otar Basalaiashvili

Otar Basalaishvili is an union leader, General Secretary of the All-Mktvartvelian Labour Union (SMSK) since December 2023. Under his leadership, SMSK adopted a policy a normalize relations with the national government, and SMSK endorsed a number of candidates, mostly from the pro-government National Renovation and the left-nationalist Social National Party in the 2024 legislative election.


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Lasha Katsarava

Lasha Katsarava is a retired military officer, diplomat, and politician. After finishing his military service, Lasha Katsarava graduated in the University of Khashumi, obtaining a degree in Law. He enlisted to the armed forces in 2001. He served for seven years, reaching the rank of Captain in the Ground Forces. In 2009, he enrolled in the State College for National Security and Foreign Policy, where he obtained a degree in International Relations and Regional History. In 2013, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Policy.

He served as a diplomat in several countries from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he served as General Director for Strategic Planning. He also served as ambassador in Zaporozh from 2020 to 2021. He returned to Mktvartvelo, having briefly an administrative position in the State College for National Security and Foreign Policy.

In 2022, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Bidzina Samkharadze's government. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs until March 2023. He was appointed once again as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Brdzeni Kvirkvelia's government in February 2024.




Otar Nasidze

Otar Nasidze is a scholar and diplomat. Otar Nasidze joined the armed forces, reached the rank of Colonel in 2008. In 2006, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He served minor roles in different embassies and consulates in Coft Aranye until he was appointed as ambassador to Samantra in 2014. In 2021, he went back to Mktvartvelo, serving in an advisory role for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed as Chairman of the Center for Coft Aranye Studies, a higher education institution established in 2022.

He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for State Administration and First Deputy Prime Minister, as well as Minister of State, in 2024.


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