 On 10 February 2020, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison .However, on May 15, President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Ugulava.Born in Tbilisi, Ugulava studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary (1992-4) and the University of Saarbrücken (1995-7), and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the Tbilisi State University in 1998.