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Flag of the Movement for United Georgia - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 January 2008
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Irakli Okruashvili (b. 1973) intially supported Saakhasvili's National Movement and served in 2004-2006, successively, as the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Economic Development. He created the Movement for United Georgia in September 2007 and was arrested on 2 September 2007 for corruption, money laundering and abuse of office. He eventually was granted political asylum in France in April 2008.
Ivan Sache, 24 October 2008
The flag of the Movement for United Georgia is quartered red-blue by a white cross skewed to the hoist.
A photo (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili) taken on 28 September 2007, showing demonstrators with this flag, is captioned as follows:
People take part in a rally, against the arrest of former defence minister Irakli Okruashvili, in central Tbilisi, September 28, 2007. The rally was planned by supporters of Okruashvili who was arrested on Thursday on charges of money-laundering and corruption.
The flag is seen on a photo (AFP) taken on 5 November 2007, together with the flags of other opposition parties.
A more recent photo (InterPressNews), 14 February 2008, shows "Irakli Okruashvili's party reps trying to enter their office". On the photograph, a man is holding a white flag with a red border and a red symbol, seemingly a huamn silhouette, surrounded by a writing in Georgian script.
A photo (AP/Shakh Aivazov) taken on 8 November 2006 in Tbilisi shows "members of the Republican Party of Georgia, as well as students from European countries picket the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi", with the red and blue flag, which is explicitely identified as the flag of the Republican Party of Georgia.
Ivan Sache & Mark Rodgers, 24 October 2008
The flag seems to be based on one of the proposed coats of arms designed in 2004.
António Martins, 17 January 2008