Eurasianet.org: Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvil and Georgia's President End Their Beautiful Friendship

Ivanishvili criticized president Margvelashvili for ‘changing his character’.
Agenda.ge, Mar 20, 2014, Tbilisi, Georgia

Georgian billionaire and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili gave an interview with Georgian TV station Imedi and made an unexpected comment about his attitude towards Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili.

The interview was analysed by journalist Giorgi Lomsadze in his article published on the EurasiaNet.org website.

The billionaire tycoon commented he could no longer recognise the man whom, less than a year ago, he told voters would make "the best president ever," the journalist wrote.

Gone are the days when the two whiled away the hours discussing Hobbes, Freud and the meaning of life. The duo clicked instantly when philosophy-enthusiast Ivanishvili invited doctor of philosophy Margvelashvili to a dinner back in 2012 when Ivanishvili was campaigning to end the rule of President Mikheil Saakashvili and his United National Movement.

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