Just eight months ago, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili languished in Brooklyn, "plotting a triumphant return" to his homeland, according to the New York Times. As of last weekend, however, he is a citizen of Ukraine and governor of Odessa, a region in the southwest of that country. His appointment is an effort by President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine to prove reforms are possible, and may be part of a plan to make Saakashvili prime minister in place of Poroshenko's reluctant ally, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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