Opposition
After the Russian-Georgian war, in September 2008, Noghaideli appeared in the Georgian press, unleashing heavy criticism of foreign and domestic policies of Mikheil Saakashvili. On 3 December 2008, he set up a new opposition party, the Movement for Fair Georgia.
In 2009, Noghaideli traveled several times in Russia, meeting top Russian officials, including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (23 December 2009). In December 2009, he also met Eduard Kokoity, the breakaway South Ossetian leader, ostensibly to help release of the Georgian teenagers detained by the South Ossetian milita. Noghaideli's rapprochement with Moscow met a negative outcry in the Georgian government. President Saakashvili described Noghaideli's Russian stance as a "sin".
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