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Anti-Saakashvili protester in Tbilisi. Imedi used to be the movement's main media outlet (Photo: gipajournos)

Battle for Georgian billions comes to EU capital

US public relations firm APCO has begun lobbying EU institutions over the ownership of a Georgian TV station, in a case linking curious events in London, Tbilisi and Minsk.

Inna Gudavadze, the widow of Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili, has hired the PR company to help create political pressure around her legal battle to secure her late husband's assets.

In May, Ms Gudavadze's lawyers met in Brussels with the EU's special representative for Georgia and with senior officials...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Anti-Saakashvili protester in Tbilisi. Imedi used to be the movement's main media outlet (Photo: gipajournos)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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