When Georgia's richest man first burst into politics 12 years ago, he vowed to "astonish Europe" with the democracy he would ...

As Georgia seemingly turns its back on European Union membership in favour of Moscow, Mark Hollingsworth asks how an enigmatic, art-collecting oligarch who lives in a cliff-edge fortress helped to swi ...

Bidzina Ivanishvili is widely perceived to be the big winner of Georgia’s weekend parliamentary election. Although the results are bitterly contested, with tens of thousands of protesters ...

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has dismissed recent election results, which the ruling Georgian Dream party said it ...

When Georgia's richest man first burst into politics 12 years ago, he vowed to "astonish Europe" with the democracy he would bring to the Black Sea nation. But Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire ...

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the owner of the castle and the most powerful man in the country of Georgia, is estimated to be worth about $7.6 billion, or a quarter of the country’s GDP. The 68-year-old tycoon ...

In a rare TV appearance, Bidzina Ivanishvili, Honorary Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, spoke with journalist Magda Anikashvili, who asked the interviewee convenient questions with a ...

Only later did the identity of the enigmatic buyer emerge – he was a 50-year-old oligarch called Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose $6.4bn (£4.9bn) fortune now makes him Georgia’s richest man ...

But Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire founder of Tbilisi's ruling party, has done what many critics say is the opposite: led the country into international isolation while curbing the power of ...