Giorgi Arveladze is the former Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 politician, the former member of the Cabinet of Georgia

Cabinet of Georgia

The Cabinet of Georgia is an executive council of government ministers in Georgia. It is headed by the Prime Minister of Georgia. In the cases of utmost importance, the meetings may be led by the President of Georgia . The first Cabinet of Georgia was formed by Noe Zhordania in the Democratic...

 and the Ex-Minister for Economics of Georgia. He was appointed on November 20, 2006, following the resignation of his precursor Irakli Okruashvili

Irakli Okruashvili

Irakli Okruashvili is a Georgian politician who had served on various important posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until being dismissed in November 2006.In September 2007, Okruashvili staged a...

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Arveladze previously served as head of Administration of the President of Georgia. He has also been a member of parliament, served as the secretary general of the ruling United National Movement party, headed Georgia's Parliamentary permanent Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

NATO Parliamentary Assembly

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, and been responsible for prison reform within the Ministry of Justice (at a time when the ministry was run by Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.Involved in the national politics since 1995, Saakashvili became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in a November 2003...

A longtime ally and deputy of president Mikhail Saakashvili, Arveladze was a central actor in the Rose Revolution

Rose Revolution

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 of November 2003. He was put in charge of President Saakashvili's PR

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 campaign of January 5 Georgian presidential election

Georgian presidential election, 2008

A presidential election was held in Georgia on January 5, 2008, having been brought forward by President Mikheil Saakashvili after the 2007 Georgian demonstrations from the original date in autumn 2008....

. The incoming Prime Minister of Georgia

Prime Minister of Georgia

The Prime Minister of Georgia is the most senior minister within the Cabinet of Georgia, appointed by the President of Georgia. The official title of the Head of the Government of Georgia has varied throughout history, however, the duties and functions of the leader have changed only marginally....

 Lado Gurgenidze replaced Arveladze with Ekaterine Sharashidze on the position of the Minister for Economics of Georgia. Giorgi Arveladze has returned to private business.

In his role as a managing director of Imedi Tv in 2010 he was involved in a scandal. The tv station showed a fake tv news broadcast where Russia invaded Georgia. No subitles were shown which caused panic in the country. Tapes released later showed that Arveladze asked his journalists to avoid mentioning that the broadcast was fake. He has since argued that the tapes were fake.