Zaal (Zaliko) Udumashvili (born 27 February 1971) is a Georgian journalist and politician. He is a member of United National Movement Georgia and he was voted third at the Elections for Mayor of

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

in 2017.

Early life

Udumashvili was born in Tbilisi. He worked as a journalist from 1992 to 2017. He was a journalist for

Rustavi 2 Rustavi 2 ( ka, რუსთავი 2, tr, "Rustavi ori") is a Georgian free-to-air television channel based in Tbilisi, that was founded in 1994 in the town of Rustavi (hence its name). It is an associate member of the European Broadcasting ...

from 2003 to 2017. From 1989 to 1994, Zaal studied at Tbilisi Zoology University. He has a wife and two sons. He studied at TSU. He was a judge of Georgia's Got Talent!

Career

He worked at Me-2 Arkhi'','' 1TV, Iberia, and

''. On'' 16 December 2018, he protested at

Telavi Telavi ( ka, თელავი ) is the main city and administrative center of Georgia's eastern province of Kakheti. Its population consists of some 19,629 inhabitants (as of the year 2014). The city is located on the foothills of the Tsiv-Gombo ...

. He stated Udumashvili responded to violence carried out on Rustavi 2 journalists, stating "What happened yesterday at Rustavi 2's building was not really so. The spontaneous reaction of the Georgian march was a well planned and organized attack on Rustavi 2. In general, we have been accustomed to the fact that any form of violence against Rustavi 2 is justified, it will be legal, moral or physical. This is exactly what happened yesterday, so if yesterday's attackers will not be punished before the law and the law will not stand. At its height, we have all the grounds to say that the government gives a green light to violence that is directed against Rustavi 2". In his interview about the 2018 president election, he stated, "The more the elections are coming, the more naturally the Bidzina Ivanishvili will terrorize the business," Udumashvili stated that

Bidzina Ivanishvili Bidzina Ivanishvili ( ka, ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, also known as Boris Grigoryevich Ivanishvili ; born 18 February 1956) is a Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist, who served as Prime Minist ...

would cover only the debt of 600 thousand people in the black list of debtors. "It is a well-known fact that Bidzina Ivanishvili is not funding his own money and will not fund the project to announce Bakhtadze. The amnesty will have to pay the money from their own pocket. A memo has been set up with Cartu Bank. Everyone is summoned to ask people to pay the money to make some projects

. All this will end with the background of business in Georgia, except for the business that is directly related to Bidzina Ivanishvili, ".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Udumashvili, Zaal 1971 births Living people Recipients of the Presidential Order of Excellence