abstract:Zurab Zhvania (Georgian: ზურაბ ჟვანია) (9 December 1963 – 3 February 2005) was a prominent Georgian politician, having served as Prime Minister of Georgia and Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia as well as Minister without Portfolio. Zhvania assumed premiership on 18 February 2004 and remained on the position until his death on 3 February 2005.
He has accused the president of ordering the murder of a Georgian media magnate, Badri Patarkatsishvili, and has cast doubt on the death in 2005 of the then prime minister, ZurabZhvania, officially in an accident.