Why This Ex-President Ended up Stateless

The leader who waged a high-profile fight to set two post-Soviet countries on a Western path has now lost his job and the citizenship of both nations. Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and former governor of Odessa in Ukraine, is now stateless. His story shows how difficult it is in the post-Soviet space for even Western darlings such as Georgia and Ukraine to shed their legacy of corruption and authoritarianism.