Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili has been inaugurated as president of Georgia in what the opposition calls a blow to ...

Georgia inaugurated on Sunday an ex-footballer turned far-right politician -- Mikheil Kavelashvili -- as Tbilisi's next ...

Kavelashvili is a critic of the United States and the West. The country’ s outgoing pro-EU president has declared the ...

Georgian lawmakers voted in the former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili as the country's next president on Saturday after days of protests.

Mikheil Kavelashvili, 53, is a former MP for the ... pro-Russia policies in a turn away from the West that has tempered hopes for Georgia’s long-promised path to EU membership.

Mikheil Kavelashvili played for Manchester City from 1995 to 1997, scoring on his debut against bitter crosstown rivals ...

Georgia on Sunday inaugurated governing party loyalist Mikheil Kavelashvili as president despite his election being declared "illegitimate" by the outgoing leader and opposition groups. The far ...

Georgian President-elect Mikheil Kavelashvili speaks at his swearing-in ceremony at the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (Irakli Gedenidze/Pool Photo via AP ...

TBILISI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mikheil Kavelashvili was sworn in as Georgia's sixth president in a ceremony held at the ...

TBILISI, Goergia (AP) — Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as president of Georgia on Sunday, cementing the ruling party's grip in what the opposition calls a ...