Zaza Sikharulidze (born 18 April 1960) is a Georgian politician, poet, publicist, attorney and academic. He is one of the leaders of the National Liberation Movement and is involved in civil society. He is the founder of the non-governmental movement of people with disabilities in Georgia. Early life Sikharulidze was born in Batumi, to the family of historian and academician Luri Sikharulidze. As of January 2014, he lived in Tbilisi. Sikharulidze is Orthodox Christian and works as a Philologist-Orientalist and Lawyer. He earned the academic degree of Doctor of Philology, He was elected as a member of the Medical and Social Academy of Georgia, the Academy of Technologic Sciences of Georgia and the Pazisi Academy of Science. Sikharulidze is a founding rector and professor of the Tbilisi International University of Business and Law, an author of four books and up to 800 publications (works of theoretical and conceptual character, literary and critical letters, poetry, and translations). He began working in 1976 in one of the specialized enterprises. Politics He entered the National Liberation Movement of the Georgian People in 1978 and participated in the demonstrations of 1980 in Mtskheta and 1983 in Tbilisi. He was one of the initiators of so-called the “Rose Revolution” and a leader of the September–November demonstration of invalids, veterans and refugees that was held with the demand that Eduard Shevardnadze’s regime should step down. Sikharulidze was a member of the Georgian Parliament from 1992-1995, chairman of the Commission on Social Issues and a member of the State Constitution Commission. In 1989 he founded Gvtisshvilta Kavshiri (Union of God-Children), became Chairman of political party Sakartvelos Gvtisshvilta Kavshiri (Union of God-Children of Georgia) established by his initiative, and President of Sruliad Sakartvelos Gvtisshvilta Kavshiri (Union of God-Children of All Georgia) (Association of the Disabled), in 1991 – the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gvtisshvili (God-Child). In 1990 Sikharulidze was elected a member of the National Forum and National Congress of Georgia, the Chairman of the Commission on Social Issues of the National Congress of Georgia and a member of the National Olympic Committee. In 1999 – he served as Executive Secretary of the Congress of Georgian NGOs founded by him and Chairman of the Board of the Development fund “Congress” of the Georgian NGOs. In 2000 he became the Chairman of the Council of the Invalids, Veterans and Refugees NGOs of All Georgia. In 2001 –