Ex-Georgian president, slumming it in Brooklyn, says he's huge in Eastern Europe

Ex-Georgian president, slumming it in Brooklyn, says he's huge in Eastern Europe
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You might be wondering: What is former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili up to these days?

The New York Times' Jason Horowitz found him slumming it in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he's been "plotting a triumphant return" to Georgian politics from "his uncle's apartment in a tower on the Williamsburg waterfront."

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Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.