Eleonora Archaia

Her father, Jondi Archaia, was a factory worker, and her mother, Neli Logua, is a former school teacher.

During perestroika, Archaia and her husband established a food processing factory in Kazakhstan and lived there for several years.

[1][2] In August 2017, Archaia announced that she would run for the Kutaisi City Council seat in the 2017 local election, as a candidate of the ruling Georgian Dream party in the Kakhianouri electoral district.

The agency's founder, who was the son of Eleonora Archaia, stated that he was forced to temporarily suspend the operations of Imereti News Agency because of direct and indirect threats made against him and his family by the Kutaisi Deputy Mayor and Deputy Governor of Imereti.

[7] On February 18, 2021, Giorgi Gakharia resigned as Prime Minister, left the ruling Georgian Dream, and founded a new party in May.

In August of the same year, Archaia announced via a Facebook post, that she had left the Georgian Dream and joined Gakharia's newly formed party.