Zourab Jvania (in Géorgien: ზურაბჟვანია, born the December 9th 1963 with Tbilissi in Georgia and deceased the February 3rd 2005 in Tbilissi) is a politician géorgien, old Prime Minister of Georgia of the February 9th 2004 until its death.

Founder of the movement ecologist géorgien in 1998, it is named with the presidency of the Parliament of Georgia by the president Edouard Chevardnadze. There remains important a allied policy of Chevardnadze but adopts the “ Révolution of the pinks ” with Nino Bourdjanadze and Mikheil Saakachvili.

After the replacement of the old political community formed at the time of the Soviet Union by actors younger and closer to Western Europe and the United States, Jvania is then named Prime Minister on February 9th, 2004.

Jvania tries to make pass from the liberal reforms economic and of fight against corruption but runs up on several occasions against president Saakachvili. Dissensions are done increasingly visible in the triumvirate resulting from the “Revolution”, Saakachvili seeking to insulate Jvania on the political plan.

Zourab Jvania dies by intoxication with the Carbon monoxide in the residence of the one of his/her friends the vice-governor of the area of Kvemo Kartli. The thesis of the accident is privileged by the local investigators and is authenticated by the FBI, but the Western mediums blame an terrorist activity carried out by the freedom fighters of Ossétie of the South.

September 26th, 2007, the former public prosecutor and Minister for Defense at the time of the facts, Irakli Okrouachvili, reveals that Jvania did not die in the apartment, but that its body was transported there after its death. It immediately is stopped and thrown in prison.

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