Most of the villagers in Chorvila in north-west Georgia adore Bidzina Ivanishvili, their proudest son who's widely seen as the country's real man in power. It's a picture postcard settlement where ...

a senior research fellow at London think-tank Chatham House. Indeed, in the poor, rural western part of Georgia where Ivanishvili grew up, he's revered by many locals as a philanthropist.

Giorgi Bachiashvili denied defrauding Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire former prime minister widely seen as Georgia's de facto leader, and said the accusations against him were revenge for ...