MOSCOW, July 07. /ITAR-TASS/. Eduard Shevardnadze, the second president of Georgia and the foreign minister of the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1990, passed away at the age of 86, the ...

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This was true of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first postcommunist president; Eduard Shevardnadze, once admired in the west as Mikhail Gorbachev’s far-sighted Soviet foreign minister ...

Georgian Dream’s victory on October 26th was demonstrably corrupt. The evidence – some of it recorded – is clear. There were many opportunities for Georgian Dream to manipulate the results via ...

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told a conference of foreign policy specialists in July 1988, “The struggle between two opposing systems is no longer a determining tendency of the ...

Shultz and the reformist Soviet foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, agreed to swap the prisoners, and they were released on Sept. 13 to their embassies. As part of the deal, the imprisoned ...

Asked where the “Rose” revolution that had overthrown the government of Edouard Shevardnadze took place, he replied, “Yugoslavia.” Asked for the successor to Henry VIII, he reflected for a moment and ...

Yeltsin was not the only President in the former Soviet Union to rule without constitutional legality: Shevardnadze in Georgia, Rakhmonov in Tajikistan, and Aliev in Azerbaijan were each in power ...

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In Georgia, after abysmal results on corruption in the judiciary were obtained in diagnostic surveys, President Eduard Shevardnadze decided that all judges had to be retested. The testing took place ...

In 2024, Georgia introduced its contentious "transparency on foreign influence" bill - often dubbed the "foreign agents law".

The Mocker drafts the speech King Charles III should have given to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa.