Girchi - More Freedom chairman
Zurab Japaridze

Place of birth

Tbilisi

Education

1999 - Graduated from Tbilisi Medical Institute 'Doctor of the Future', General Practitioner;

2005 - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, majored in Public Administration;

2010 - George Washington University School of Business, Master's Degree in Project Management

Professional Experience

1998-2000 Assistant to Sakstandard Coordinator;

2000-2002 Deputy Director of the International Center for Journalists;

2002-2003 Assistant Program Officer of the OSCE Mission to Georgia;

2003-2006 OSCE Mission Training Program Officer in Georgia;

2005-2011 Professor at the Institute of Public Affairs;

2006-2008 UNFPA South Caucasus Project Regional Coordinator;

2006-2011 EC / SPAMGO Project Management Consultant;

2008-2010 CEO of ABG Profservice Group Ltd;

2010-2011 USAID Project HIV Prevention in Georgia, Technical Expert;

2010-2012 Columnist of the magazine Tabula;

Professor at Tbilisi Free University since 2011;

2012-2016 Member of Parliament of Georgia of the 8th convocation, election bloc: United National Movement - More benefits to the people, party list;

Girchi candidate in the 2018 presidential election, received 36,034 (2.26%) votes;

Since October 8, 2018, his official name is Zurab Girchi Japaridze;

2020 Member of the Parliament of Georgia of the 10th convocation, election bloc: Girchi, party list;

At the end of 2020, he established Girchi - More Freedom as a result of splitting with New Political Center - Girchi

Former President of Georgia
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria
European Georgia chairman
Giga Bokeria
Zurab Japaridze: Protest is a demonstration that citizens do not accept dictatorship - eople must feel that there is an alternative force: an agreement on a common struggle strategy, even a joint list and a shared vision, which is the “Georgian Charter”
Irakli Kupradze: Zurab “Girchi” Japaridze’s release from prison in this manner is a display of the cowardice of a sadistic regime
Paata Zakareishvili: Papuashvili would be better off not speaking at all - in exceptional cases, he should particularly remain silent - Ukraine is such an exceptional case - he has become an advocate for Russia - This is not pro-Russian, it is Russian policy
Nika Simonishvili: “Georgian Dream” arrests people illegally, but today is the first time I’ve seen someone released illegally - As for the protests, if at the beginning we were defending the European path, today we are on the streets to preserve sovereignty
Penitentiary Service issues statement on Zurab Japaridze’s release from prison
Zurab Japaridze: How long they will allow us to remain outside is what matters - what we manage to do in that time - whether they will let us feel freedom and then expect us to fall silent, stop, or leave the country and not continue the struggle - this will not be accepted
Giga Lemonjava: I don’t recall anyone being released from prison so early on purpose just to avoid footage of them leaving - This shows how detached the so-called authorities are from reality and how far they’ve strayed from serving the public
Zurab Japaridze: I was supposed to be ready by 10:30, but they brought me out at 8:00 in just a T-shirt
Zurab Japaridze leaves Rustavi Prison
Zurab Japaridze: "I’m not a politician" is not an argument - if you think something else needs to be done, come up with it; you have one head, and we have one head too
Zurab Japaridze to leave prison on December 19
Zurab Japaridze: It doesn’t matter what substance they name: when this is repeated continuously, even carrot juice would be harmful – They are scared, because using a chemical substance justifies many forms of resistance against a regime
Zurab Japaridze to leave Rustavi prison on December 22
Zurab “Girchi” Japaridze: I don’t believe even 1% that there are thousands of Arab millionaires eager to invest in Georgian real estate; rich Arabs are not fools
Tinatin Bolokadze, member of “Coalition for Change”: We have been dissidents for a year already - as for Melia and Saakashvili, the ‘National Movement’ should be part of the unity - the ‘red lines’ exist only with Gakharia’s party
Zurab Japaridze refuses parole
Zurab Japaridze: Either we leave the country, or we will spend 7 to 15 years in prison, this is the message - I am not going to leave, I will stay in my country, which I am accused of betraying - don't be angry, laugh, turn a monster into a clown, this is how the collapse begins
Elene Khoshtaria: The so-called charge filed by the Prosecutor’s Office is exactly the case that I will be proud of for the rest of my life - I am proud that I had a modest contribution to the sanctioning of the "Russian Dream"
Ambassador of Korea Hyon Du KIM - Korea’s strength lies in high-tech manufacturing while Georgia’s strength is in logistics and service areas - Georgia should not be just considered as a single market but as a market that can encompass the region and beyond
Oleksii Reznikov - Russia, in reality, is a paper tiger