Bidzina Ivanishvili

The name of Bidzina Ivanishvili acquired a loud political sound after 2011, when this respectable businessman seriously declared himself as a new force capable of ensuring the well-being of his native Georgia. Prior to his political career, Ivanishvili, a billionaire on the Forbes list, was successful in big business, succeeding in banking and metallurgy. At the moment - the leader of the ruling party "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia".

Bidzina Grigorievich Ivanishvili was born on February 18, 1956 in the Imeretian village of Chorvila, Georgia. Father Grigory Ivanishvili is a miner who worked in the extraction of manganese ore. Tsitsino Ivanishvili's mother is a housewife. The couple had five children, Bidzina is the youngest.

The politician admits in an interview that he was born into a very poor family and “walked barefoot until the age of 7”, since there was simply nothing to buy shoes for. And Bidzina wore pants and shirts after his older brothers. But, despite this, the billionaire considers his childhood insanely happy at times, in which there was everything: the love of parents, and noisy family feasts, and vivid games with rural boys.

After graduating from school, Bidzina left his native village in Tbilisi, where he entered the university at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics. As a student, he lived in a hostel and worked part-time at a local foundry and mechanical plant: he was a cleaner, then a grinder.

After graduating with honors in 1980, the parents were waiting for their son back to Chorvila, for that career at a mining plant. But the ambitious graduate stayed in Tbilisi, began to work at the same plant as a senior engineer, then headed the laboratory for the scientific organization of labor.

In 1982, a promising specialist Ivanishvili was sent for advanced training to the Moscow postgraduate study at the Research Institute of Labor, and after 4 years in the status of a candidate of economic sciences, he returned to Tbilisi and worked as a senior researcher at the local branch of the Research Institute.

In the late 1980s, the first winds of change were already felt, private enterprises were opened, and Ivanishvili was one of the first to create his own cooperative in Georgia. First, at the plant where he worked, he produced reinforced hoses. Then he started supplying computers from abroad. He subsequently transferred this business to Moscow.

Even in his early youth, when he was in graduate school, Bidzina met the enterprising Vitaly Malkin, with whom they were very successful. In 1988-1990, their Agroprogress cooperative became a powerful electronics sales company, which even owned a radio equipment factory in China.

In 1990, the partners entered a new market - the financial one. Together with the third founder, Sergei Mosin, they co-founded Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank. Subsequently, Ivanishvili bought out Mosin's stake, increasing the asset to 67%, and took over as president of the bank. Soon, Rossiyskiy Kredit became a major player on the foreign exchange market, as well as on the gold and non-ferrous metals market.

Two years later, the Georgian businessman became a member of the board of directors of JSCB MarkPolBank, and a year later he and Malkin became co-founders of Impexbank. Things went uphill, and the money earned by Ivanishvili and his partners began to invest in privatization, acquiring former state assets in the form of mining and processing enterprises: Lebedinsky, Stoilensky and Mikhailovsky.

In 1994, Bidzina Grigorievich held the post of vice president of the Rossiyskiy Kredit bank and went abroad: first to the United States, then to France, where he acquired real estate. Since this period, he has lived in two countries, but Ivanishvili's main business is concentrated in Russia. In 1997, the entrepreneur created the Metalloinvest holding to manage industrial assets and real estate.

In the early 2000s, dozens of enterprises were named among Ivanishvili's assets, including factories, banks, hotels, an insurance company, non-state funds, a network of pharmacies, as well as large development projects. And this is not counting the assets in Georgia, where the entrepreneur founded the financial and industrial group “Kartu Group”, which included the food company “Tolia”, bank “Kartu”, agricultural and construction companies.

At this time (since 2005) Ivanishvili appears in the Forbes rating as one of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 6.4 billion. After 2011, before starting his political career, he sells off a significant part of his assets.

Back in 2004, with the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, Bidzina Grigorievich received Georgian citizenship (since earlier he had only Russian and French) and moved to live in his native village of Chorvila. From that moment on, he provides material support to the formation of the new government, and does a lot of charity work.

The billionaire transformed his native village beyond recognition, made communications, repaired emergency houses, rebuilt roads, erected a new hospital, where they work according to international standards. Playing a big role in the improvement of his native country, Bidzina Grigorievich, nevertheless, remained in the shadows. And only in 2011, disillusioned with the Saakashvili regime, he opened a chapter in his biography entitled "Politics".

He started by organizing an opposition party to run in the 2012 parliamentary elections. In retaliation, Saakashvili stripped Ivanishvili of his Georgian citizenship. Then the party "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia" was headed by Ivanishvili's wife - Ekaterina Khvedelidze. And he himself, after the return of citizenship in October 2012, was approved by the Prime Minister of Georgia. By this time, his party won the majority of the votes and sent Saakashvili into opposition.

As prime minister, the politician pursues a course aimed at integration with the European Union and NATO, the normalization of Georgian-Russian relations, a positive solution to the national issue with Abkhazia and Ossetia. In November 2013, at the zenith of popularity, Bidzina Ivanishvili himself resigned. At the same time, he gave an official interview in which he promised that

At the same time, Giorgi Margvelashvili won the presidential elections in Georgia, who was supported by the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia coalition.

On October 19, 1991, Bidzina Ivanishvili married an ethnic Georgian, French citizen Ekaterina Khvedelidze. A month later, on November 25, 1991, the businessman again married Inge Pavlova, who lives in Moscow. The marriage was registered in France and dissolved there on May 18, 1994. There is no official explanation for this strange fact from the politician's personal life.

Bidzina Grigorievich has four children from his marriage to Khvedelidze: sons - Uta, Bera, Tsotne and daughter Gvants.

Uta lives in Paris, studies at the university as an economist. Bera is a musician, a popular rapper in Georgia and the United States, and the owner of his own studio in Los Angeles. Gvantsa is fond of Gothic culture.

So far, only one son of the politician has a family. In September 2018, Bera Ivanishvili announced on social networks that he was marrying his beloved, photo model Nanuka Gudavadze. The date of the wedding of Ivanishvili's son is not yet known.

In the spring of 2018, Bidzina Ivanishvili again became the head of the Georgian Dream party to support the independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili in the presidential elections, who won by majority after the second round.

Now, according to political analysts, the rating of the ruling party, headed by Ivanishvili, is rapidly falling. And the people expect effective reforms from the new government and the old government at the beginning of 2019.

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