Giorgi Karkarashvili

Major General Giorgi Karkarashvili
Born	October 31, 1966 (1966-10-31) (age 57) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union  Georgia
Service/branch	Georgian Army
Rank	Major general
Commands held	Georgian Armed Forces
Battles/wars	Soviet-Afghan War Georgian Civil War 1991–1992 South Ossetia War War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)

Giorgi (Gia) Karkarashvili (Georgian: გიორგი [გია] ყარყარაშვილი) (born October 31, 1966) is a Georgian politician and retired major general who served as Georgia's Minister of Defense from May 1993 to March 1994. A former Soviet army captain, he was a high-profile military commander during the civil war and wars against the secessionists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the 1990s. A gunshot wound received in the 1995 attack in Moscow left him severely disabled. He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1999 to 2004. He is currently a member of the Our Georgia – Free Democrats party led by Irakli Alasania.