Businessman Kakha Bendukidze, who lives and works in Russia, has been appointed Georgia\'s economics minister, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania said in Tbilisi on Tuesday. Bendukidze\'s appointment was coordinated with President Mikheil Saakashvili, Zhvania said. \"He is an economist on a global scale. Bendukidze has very good relations with all the world\'s leading economic centers,\" the prime minister said. Asked whether Bendukidze, who is general director of United Heavy Machinery (Uralmash-Izhora Group), is going to invest in Georgia\'s economy, the prime minister said that \"naturally, the minister will not be able to invest his own money in the enterprises under his control.\" Saakashvili called Bendukidze \"a true patriot of Georgia\" while speaking at the Georgian-Russian economic forum in Tbilisi on Monday evening. (Interfax)