Σπουδαγμένο παιδί ο Μιχάλης. Από το Κολούμπια στην Ουάσιγκτον για σπουδές και από εκεί στο Ισραήλ για διδακτορικό. Ενδιαφέρον στοιχείο: προτάθηκε για Νόμπελ Ειρήνης από τη Χίλαρι Κλίντον το 2004. Η Πράβντα έγραψε: "καθόλου παράξενο για τον άνθρωπο, που πρόσθεσε ακόμη μια Georgia στο χάρτη των Η.Π.Α."!
Saakashvili, 41 years old (he was born in Tiflis on 21 December 1967), has himself spent a good part of his life in the US.
In 1994, he got agrant from the United States State Department via the Edmund S.Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program and completed hisstudies at Columbia University (where he received an LLM in 1994),then at the George Washington University Law School.
His twobrothers, Giorgi and Nikolos, work in the US as film producers.
Saakashvili, holds an honorary doctorate from the Haifa University, was received in August 2004.
In 2006, Hillary Clinton said he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! No wonder that the Russian *Pravda* published one anarticle entitled “Another Georgia to appear on the U.S. map”!
From April 2002 to 2004, 127 American military advisers andinstructors have been paid by the Georgian government, 35 of thembelonging to private “security” firms, with a global cost of 65 million dollars for this program.
After 2004, these US military advisers were replaced by Israeli ones. More than 1,000 Israeli military advisers haveworked in Georgia to train the Georgian army. The Israeli paper *Debka* has written these last days that these Israeli military advisers have played a key role in the preparation of the destruction of Tskhinvali par the Georgian forces.
In last July, Condoleezza Rice visited Georgia. A few days after her visit, from 17 to 31 July, the Georgian army conducted massive military exercises, which look retrospectively now as a directpreparation of the war which began some days later.
