Head Of the Administration of the President of Georgia
In office 20 April 2005 – 12 July 2005
President
Mikheil Saakashvili
Succeeded by
Giorgi Arveladze
Governor Of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
In office 2004–2004
Preceded by
Leri Chitanava
Succeeded by
Mikheil Ardia
Secretary-General of European Georgia
In office January 2017 – 2021
Personal details
Born
(1975-08-15)15 August 1975 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality
Soviet (1975–1991) Georgian (1991–)
Political party
United National Movement (2003–2017) European Georgia (2017–2021)
Children
3
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Giorgi "Gigi" Ugulava (Georgian: გიგი უგულავა) (born August 15, 1975) is a Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi (2005–2013). He was one of the former leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) party and former close ally of the former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. On 10 February 2020, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison .[1] However, on May 15, President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Ugulava.[2]
^""თავისუფლების გზა თუ გადის ციხეზე, მე მზად ვარ ხელახლა წავიდე ციხეში" - გიგი უგულავას პირველი კომენტარი სასამართლოს განაჩენის შემდეგ". www.ambebi.ge. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
Giorgi "Gigi" Ugulava (Georgian: გიგი უგულავა) (born August 15, 1975) is a Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi (2005–2013). He was one...
2020, the former Mayor of Tbilisi and European Georgia politician, GiorgiUgulava, was contentiously sentenced for three years imprisonment for embezzlement...
arrests which are said to be "politically motivated", such as the case of GiorgiUgulava. The two founders of the party, Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze...
Georgian Representative to the U.N. Malkhaz Abuladze as Mayor of Tbilisi, GiorgiUgulava Marshall Manesh as Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland, Chairman of...
the Republic of Georgia. The first elected mayor of Tbilisi is Giorgi (Gigi) Ugulava who was re-elected in 2006 after one year of being on the position...
to populism. In an interview with the online news website Netgazeti, GiorgiUgulava distinguished the EG as being more liberal than the UNM, specifically...
event. On 23 October 2023, the PEA hosted the former mayor of Tbilisi, GiorgiUgulava. The European integration of Armenia and Georgia was discussed. On 30...
All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church GiorgiUgulava – Georgian politician; 2013. Levan Varshalomidze – Georgian politician;...
Tchiaberashvili becomes mayor. Caucasus University established. 2005 – GiorgiUgulava becomes mayor. 2006 March: Protest against 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan...
2010, the government of Tbilisi started a program initiated by Mayor Gigi Ugulava. The idea was to renew old and damaged houses and cobbled streets to make...
Speaker of the Canadian Senate Mikheil Saakashvili - Georgian President GiorgiUgulava - Mayor of Tbilisi Aigars Kalvītis - Latvian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski...
influenced by the controversial arrest, on 1 July, of Tbilisi's ex-Mayor Gigi Ugulava, who spearheaded the UNM's election campaign. The election was marked by...
including Mikheil Saakashvili and Giorgi Arveladze, to be brought to justice. On the 23 February 2013, Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava was charged with the misappropriation...
Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation. During the rallies, Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava proposed that local elections be held in spring 2010, before the statutory...
the Mayor: Ugulava in Jail". The Georgian Journal. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2022. "Court Orders Pre-Trial Detention for Ugulava". Civil Georgia...
political crisis including the release from prison of Giorgi Rurua, Irakli Okruashvili, and Gigi Ugulava, instead of an electoral reform. On 12 December 2019...
troops, Georgian police re-entered the city. The mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulava, said that "an organized return" of displaced Gori residents would be facilitated...
However, President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned him, alongside Gigi Ugulava, on May 15, 2020. On March 8, 2022 the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence stated...
Social Services and Culture Service of the City of Tbilisi by Mayor Gigi Ugulava. During the 2014 municipal elections, Khabeishvili was nominated by UNM...
counter-intelligence service during a meeting with three Russian diplomats. Gigi Ugulava, Tbilisi's mayor, defended the action by police, saying: "I was listening...
candidate for Mayor of Poti, although the party instead chose to nominate Gigi Ugulava, a leader of European Georgia. Bokuchava was one of six UNM MPs to remain...