Davit Kacharava (born 16 January 1985, in

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) is a Georgian

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player who plays as a

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. He played for Bastia, Nice, from 2009/10 to 2011/12, for

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in the

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in France, during the 2012/13 season, and currently plays for Enisei-STM in the Russian Championship. His club played in the

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. He has 73 caps for

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, since 2006, with 14 tries scored, 70 points on aggregate. He was called for the

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, playing in two games and scoring a try, and for the

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, playing in all the four games but without scoring.Davit Kacharava International Statistics
/ref> He continues to be a regular player for the Georgian side. He is member of Parliament of Georgia since December 2020. On 2 August 2022, Kacharava left the

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party and joined the People's Power party.

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