Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s billionaire puppet master of the pro-Russia vote

Bidzina Ivanishvili is widely perceived to be the big winner of Georgia’s weekend parliamentary election. Although the results are bitterly contested, with tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of Tbilisi on Monday, Georgia’s richest man is credited with – almost single-handedly – having served his country to Russia on a silver platter.