Mikheil Saakashvili, Ex-President of Georgia, arrested in Ukraine, again

Ukraine/EU/Maidan. Saakashvili to open an Institute for Democracy and financial accountability in Ukraine?

"Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, was arrested on Friday in Ukraine during a late-night police raid on an apartment where he had been hiding after his escape from custody following a rooftop struggle with security agents this week. * Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said in a Facebook post that Mr. Saakashvili, the standard-bearer of a vociferous campaign to remove the president of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko, had been seized late Friday by police officers in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and placed in a pretrial detention center."

The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/world/europe/saakashvili-arrest-ukraine.html
"Scores of Mr. Saakashvili’s supporters gathered overnight outside the detention center, which is operated by the domestic security agency, and chanted “glory to Ukraine” and other slogans. Vowing to stay until Mr. Saakashvili was released, they lit fires in the street to keep warm, just as protesters did in the winter of 2013-14 during an ultimately successful campaign to oust Ukraine’s previous president, Viktor F. Yanukovych.

A few hours before he was detained, Mr. Saakashvili had called for weekend protests against Mr. Poroshenko in Independence Square, an area in Kiev known as Maidan that was the center of the earlier demonstrations against Mr. Yanukovych. --- Mr. Saakashvili was detained briefly on Tuesday after he climbed to the roof of an apartment building in Kiev and threatened to jump. He then escaped after hundreds of his supporters blocked a van that was to take him to a detention center."

The Guardian:
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/08/ukrainian-police-recapture-former-georgian-president-saakashvili

abcnews: "Ukraine arrests anti-corruption activist Saakashvili"
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-arrests-anti-corruption-activist-saakashvili-51678373


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Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s prosecutor general (on facebook):

* Юрій Луценко: "Згідно постанови про розшук працівники Нацполіції виявили місце перебування М. Саакашвілі на вул Відрадній міста Києва та затримали його.
Затриманий поміщений до ізолятора тимчасового тримання.
Плануються слідчі дії та звернення в суд про обрання запобіжного заходу.
Як і обіцяли, силовики зробили все, щоб уникнути крайніх силових дій і крові."

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Johan Candelin, chairman of Friends of the Martyred Church (October 5, 2017 on facebook): "First Step Forum asks Michail Saakashvili to open an Institute for Democracy and financial accountability in Ukraine . Saakashvili as President in Georgia took the country from one of the most corrupt to one of the least corrupt in the world."

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"I am the Ukrainian":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvds2AIiWLA