Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze is coming to Washington on Friday.

苏联外长谢瓦尔德纳泽星期五来华盛顿。

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Five years ago,he won 96 percent of the ballots cast, following a popular movement known as the "Rose Revolution" that forced the resignation of the incumbent, Eduard Shevardnadze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

On the one hand, former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze engaged in what amounts to blackmail.

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If Mr Shevardnadze fails to provide even this, his young allies in parliament could desert him.

ECONOMIST: Georgia

Mr Shevardnadze's own inner circle mixes the best and the worst in Georgian politics.

ECONOMIST: Georgia