Don't Cry For Me, Shevardnadze...
Thursday July 10, 2014
Shevardnadze’s eleven years in power as president of Georgia is barely mentioned, apart from his overthrow in November 2003 during the inappropriately named ‘rose revolution’. After that ‘Shevy’, (as he was known, if not entirely affectionately) disappeared into the shadows. Over the past ten years he gave a few interviews but so far, there have been no new memoirs nor any sign of an official biography. For someone who is meant to have changed the course of history, his passing has — to say the least — been underwhelming.
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