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US Lawmaker Calls on EU, UK to Sanction Georgian Oligarch

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Feb. 2 urged Hungary and Slovakia to end their opposition to EU sanctions against Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili and his “cronies” who “rigged” the country’s October…

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parliamentary elections and are now "brutally cracking down" on pro-democracy protesters. Previously, on Jan. 29, Wilson and U.K. Parliament Member James MacCleary jointly asked U.K. Foreign Minister David Lammy to sanction Ivanishvili. The State Department sanctioned him in late December (see 2412270011).