Salome Zurabishvili: defiant champion of Georgia's EU dream

The Georgian president, 72, has been embroiled in a fierce feud with the ruling Georgian Dream party and has backed massive anti-government protests. Born in Paris to a Georgian family who fled Bolshevik rule in the 1920s, Zurabishvili has accused the government of steering Tbilisi back towards Moscow and acting on Russian orders. "We are witnesses and victims of a Russian special operation, a modern form of hybrid war against the Georgian people," she declared after contested parliamentary elections in October.