Biography
The name of Bijina Ivanishvili acquired a loud political sound after 2011, when this solid businessman seriously declared itself as a new force capable of ensuring the welfare of his native Georgia. Ivanishvili's political career, a billionaire from the Forbes list, successfully engaged in great business, successful in the banking and metallurgical spheres. He became the leader of the ruling party "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia".Childhood and youth
Bidzina Grigorievich Ivanishvili was born on February 18, 1956 in the Imereti village of Chorvil, Georgia. By nationality he is Georgian. Father Grigory Ivanishvili - Shakhtar, worked on the extraction of manganese ore. Mother Cycino Ivanishvili - housewife. Five children were born five children, Bijin - the youngest.
The politician is confirmed in an interview that he was born in a very poor family and "went barefoot to 7 years," since it is elementary not what to buy shoes. Bijin's pants and shirts stopped behind the senior brothers. But despite this, the billionaire considers his childhood insanely happy sometimes, in which everything was: and the love of parents, and noisy family feasts, and bright games with rural boys.
After graduating from school, Bidzina left his native village in Tbilisi, where he entered the university to the Engineering and Economic Faculty. A student lived in a hostel and worked at the local foundry-mechanical plant: was a cleaner, then a grindersman.
After graduating from the university with honors in 1980, the parents were waiting for the Son back to Chorvilu, with his career at the mountain mill. But the ambitious graduate remained in Tbilisi, began to work at the same factory with a senior engineer, and then headed the laboratory for the scientific organization of labor.
In his youth, after 2 years of work, Ivanishvili sent to advanced training in the Moscow graduate school with labor. After 4 years, in the status of the Candidate of Economic Science, he returned to Tbilisi and began to work as a senior researcher at the local branch of the Research Institute.
Business and Career
In the late 80s, the first blows of the wind was already felt, private enterprises were opened, and Ivanishvili was one of the first who created his own cooperative in Georgia. First, at the factory, which worked, released reinforced hoses. Then I adjusted the delivery of computers from abroad. This business subsequently translated into Moscow.Also at a young age, when he studied in graduate school, Bidzin met with the enterprising Vitaly Malkin, with whom they were very successful. In 1988-1990, their cooperative "Agroprogress" became a powerful enterprise for the sale of electronics, which was even a factory in China in China.
In 1990, partners entered the new market - financial. Together with the Third Founder, Sergey Mosin was made by co-founders of the Bank "Russian Credit". Subsequently, Ivanishvili bought the share of Mosina, increasing the asset to 67%, and took the post of president of the bank. Soon "Russian Credit" was a major player in the foreign exchange market, as well as on the market of gold and non-ferrous metals.
Two years later, the Georgian businessman became part of the Board of Directors of the Akb "Marcpolbank", and in the year they with Malkin became co-founders of Impaxbank. The cases went uphill, and Ivanishvili's earned money and the companions began to invest in the privatization business, acquiring former state assets in the form of mining and processing enterprises: Lebedinsky, Stalensky and Mikhailovsky.
In 1994, Bidzina Grigorievich held the post of vice-president of the Russian Credit Bank and left abroad: first in the United States, then in France, where the property acquired. From this period lives into two countries, but the main business in Russia. In 1997, the entrepreneur established Metalloinvest Holding to manage industrial assets and real estate.
In the early 2000s, tens of enterprises are among the assets of Ivanishvili, including plants, banks, hotels, insurance companies, non-state funds, pharmacy network, as well as large developer projects. And this is not counting assets in Georgia, where the entrepreneur founded the Financial and Industrial Group "Card Group", which included the Tolia's food company, the Bank "CARTA", Agricultural and Construction Companies.
At this time (since 2005), Ivanishvili appeared in the "Forbes" rating as one of the richest businessmen in Russia with a state of $ 6.4 billion after 2011, before the start of a political career, conspited a significant part of the assets. However, the British newspaper Guardian argued that the businessman remained a shareholder of Gazprom and keeps a major stake in stock.
Politics
Back in 2004, with the coming to power Mikhail Saakashvili Bidzina Grigorievich received the citizenship of Georgia (since there had previously had only Russian and French) and moved to live in his native village of Chorvil. From this point on, it provides material support to the formation of a new government, a lot is engaged in charity.
The native village billionaire transformed beyond recognition: spent communications, repaired emergency houses, rebuilt the roads, erected a new hospital, where they work according to international standards. Playing a big role in the improvement of the native country, Bidzina Grigorievich, however, remained in the shadows. And only in 2011, disappointed in Mikhail Saakashvili mode, he opened the chapter in his biography called "Politics". Many embarrassed the fact that his business actor did in Russia in the early 90s. However, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia, David Berdzenishvili, said that Ivanishvili was not connected with the crime: "If Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili, together with Crime, were part of the government, then Ivanishvili was guarded by the crime. In the fact that he hates crime, I was convinced myself. "
He began with the organization of the opposition party to participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections. In St. Sakashvili, Ivanishvili deprived Georgian citizenship. Then the party "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia" headed his wife - Ekaterina Khvedelidze. And he himself, after the return of citizenship in October 2012, was approved by the Georgian Prime Minister. By this point, his party gained most votes and sent Saakashvili to the opposition.
The prime minister has a course aimed at integration with the European Union and NATO, the normalization of Georgian-Russian relations, a positive decision of the national issue with Abkhazia and Ossetia. In November 2013, during the zenith of popularity, Bijina Ivanishvili himself resigned. At the same time gave an official interview and promised that "the power he left will build a truly democratic country and will never become corrupt." At the same time, Georgy Margwelashvili defeated Georgy's presidential elections, who supported the Coalition "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia".
In the spring of 2018, Bijin Ivanishvili again led the Georgian Dream party, so that in the presidential election to support the independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili, who won by a majority vote after the second round. Mayor Tbilisi Kahu Kaladze in an interview noted that the return of Ivanishvili is useful for Georgia.
However, since the 2018, according to political analysts, the ranking of the ruling party, headed by Ivanishvili, rapidly fell. And people waited from the new government and the old government of effective reforms.
Personal life
On October 19, 1991, Bijina Ivanishvili married an ethnic Georgian, France Citizer Catherine Khvedelidze. A month, November 25, 1991, the businessman was once again married Inge Pavlova living in Moscow. Marriage was registered in France and there they will dissolve on May 18, 1994. The official explanation of this fact from personal life the policy is not given.From marriage with Khvedelidze near Bijina Grigorievich Four children: sons of Uta, Bera, Tsotn, and the daughter of Gwance. Uta lives in Paris, learns at the university on an economist. Bera is a musician, popular in Georgia and USA Rapper, owner of his own studio in Los Angeles. Gwance is fond of gothic culture.
So far, only one son has acquired a family. In September 2018, Ber Ivanishvili announced in social networks that he marries his beloved - the fashion model of Nanoo Gudavadze. Already in November, young people were married in the Cathedral of Svetitskhoveli in the city of Mtskheta. On this occasion, they staged a celebration in a fashionable complex for recreation not far from Kodjori. They officially legalized their marriage in March 2019.
November 29, 2019 Bijina Ivanishvili became a grandfather. Bera and Nanuk gave him the grandson, which Beruk called. The photo of the child can be found in the instagram profile of Ivanishvili junior.
Bijina Ivanishvili now
On January 11, 2021, Bidzina Ivanishvili announced that he had from politics and leaves the post of leader of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party. He commented on his act:
"I think my mission is made. I decided to finally move away from politics and completely leave the brazers of the board. I leave as the post of Chairman of the Party and the party itself. "The main reason for the departure of Ivanishvili called age - he was soon 65 years old. He himself believes that he performed his mission. The politician expressed confidence that the current leadership of the political association could cope without his participation, because the ruling team is the best and non-alternative.
It is worth noting that in the Georgian opposition they did not believe that Ivanishvili leaves politics. Roman Gotsiridze, who is the leader of the opposition party "Unified National Movement", said that the billionaire will be managed due to the Kulis, and not publicly.
On January 12, Bijina Ivanishvili translated part of his assets (tourist sites, land plots, office buildings, commercial real estate and other) on the balance of the Card Charitable Foundation, which was established by him. Their size is estimated at $ 1.5 billion. He told that the spouse and children supported him in such a generous donation.
"I and my spouse now at your disposal remains $ 200 million, which existed in addition to these $ 1.5 billion, as free funds. Also, I leave my children so much money as it is necessary that they do not lose the motivation to create something new, fully realize and develop ourselves, "said Ivanishvili.