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.

A FORMER footballer who played for Manchester City has been sworn in as the new President of Georgia Mikheil Kavelashvili, 53 ...

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 ...

Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the ...

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