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From his hilltop glass mansion in ancient Tbilisi, he鈥檚 accused of cultivating Georgia鈥檚 shift from the west over the past decade.

And, with his political party鈥檚 recent victory in the parliamentary elections, that trajectory appears set to continue for some time yet.

Bidzina Ivanishvili is the guiding force behind the Georgian Dream party, but what else do we know about the mysterious billionaire?

In this edition of Profile, Mark Coles takes a closer look at the man who keeps animals, collects rare trees, and who spent much of the 1990s in Russia founding companies.

Contributors
Tom De Waal - Senior Fellow with the Carnegie Europe think tank
Natalia Antelava - Journalist
Lincoln Mitchell - Lecturer of International Affairs at Columbia University
Tedo Jakaridze - Georgia鈥檚 Foreign Minister
Neil MacFarlane - Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Oxford

Production Team
Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Ben Cooper, Marianna Brain, Kirsteen Knight
Editor: Ben Mundy
Sound: Neil Churchill
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele

Credits
IMEDI TV