Aslan Abashidze
Aslan Abashidze | |
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ასლან აბაშიძე | |
Abashidze in 2002 | |
| 1st Chairman of the Government of Adjara | |
| In office 18 August 1991 – 5 May 2004 | |
| President | Zviad Gamsakhurdia Eduard Shevardnadze Nino Burjanadze (acting) Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Prime Minister | Murman Omanidze (acting) Besarion Gugushvili Tengiz Sigua Eduard Shevardnadze (acting) Otar Patsatsia Niko Lekishvili Vazha Lortkipanidze Giorgi Arsenishvili Avtandil Jorbenadze Zurab Zhvania |
| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Levan Varshalomidze |
| Chairman of Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara | |
| In office 15 March 1991 – 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Antaz Kikava |
| Chairman of Democratic Union for Revival | |
| In office 1992–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member Of Parliament of Georgia | |
| In office 4 November 1992 – 20 April 2000 | |
| In office 10 August 1991 – 2 January 1992 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 July 1938 |
| Citizenship | Soviet (1938–1991) Georgian (1991–) |
| Party | Round Table—Free Georgia (1990–1992) Democratic Union for Revival (1992–2004) |
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) |
| Relations | Memed Abashidze (grandfather) |
| Signature | |
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Aslan Abashidze (Georgian: ასლან აბაშიძე; born 20 July 1938) is the former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia. He served in this capacity from 18 August 1991 to 5 May 2004. He resigned under the pressure of the central Georgian government and mass opposition rallies during the 2004 Adjara crisis, and has since lived in Moscow, Russia. On 22 January 2007, the Batumi city court found him guilty of misuse of office and embezzlement of GEL 98.2 million in state funds, and sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment in absentia. He also faces a charge of murder of his former deputy, Nodar Imnadze, in 1991.