Western attention to the misdeeds of Georgian strongman Bidzina Dze Ivanishvili was raised to a new level at close of last year, when the U.S. State Department formally addressed the founder of the Georgian Dream party for betraying his country’s constitution for personal benefit and the benefit of the Russian Federation.

Ivanishvili was deemed complicit in aiding Russia’s occupation of more than a fifth of the nation he controls as the ruling party’s honorary chairman.

In announcing this latest round of sanctions, then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Ivanishvili had implemented “actions and policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad” to benefit Russia’s war effort.

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