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Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet ...
Eduard Shevardnadze (born January 25, 1928, Mamati, Georgia, U.S.S.R.—died July 7, 2014, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Georgian politician, who was foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1985–90, 1991) and head of state of Georgia (1992–2003).
Jul 8, 2014 · The former Georgian president remains one of the most outstanding and controversial figures in Georgia's modern history, says Nina Akhmeteli.
Jul 7, 2014 · Eduard Shevardnadze, who has died aged 86, was virtually unknown outside Georgia when Mikhail Gorbachev made him Soviet foreign minister in 1985.
Jul 7, 2014 · Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who as Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s foreign minister helped hone the “new thinking,” foreign and domestic, that transformed and ultimately rent the Soviet Union, then led ...
Jul 7, 2014 · Former Georgian president and last foreign minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze dies at the age of 86 after a long illness.
Eduard Amvros'evich Shevardnadze, the son of a teacher, was born in the village of Mamati in western Georgia. Georgia was then a republic in the Soviet Union. As a youth, he joined the Komsomol, the Communist Youth League, and rose to leadership positions within the organization.
Jul 7, 2014 · Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, politician: born Georgia 25 January 1928; married 1951 Nanuli Tsagareishvili (died 2004; one daughter, one son); died Tbilisi 7 July 2014.
Jul 7, 2014 · TBILISI, Georgia -- Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.
Jul 7, 2014 · TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Eduard Shevardnadze was a key figure in revolutions abroad and the victim of one at home. As the Soviet Union's foreign minister, he helped topple the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, but as the leader of post-Soviet Georgia his career in the public eye ended in humiliation when he was chased out of his parliament and ...
