In 1991 and 1995 SKP supported the candidacies of Eduard Shevardnadze.
In this role, he has met with a number of foreign leaders, including the Presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze.
On November 2, following an agreement between Eduard Shevardnadze and Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral E. Baltin, units of the Russian fleet landed in Poti to consolidate the government control over the key harbor and help establish order in the town.
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Initially it was led by a triumvirate of Jaba Ioseliani, Tengiz Sigua and Tengiz Kitovani, but it was soon chaired by Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Communist leader who returned to Tbilisi in March 1992.
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In September 1993, Zviad Gamsakhurdia took advantage of the struggle in Abkhazia to return to the city of Zugdidi, western Georgia, and rally enthusiastic but disorganized Georgians in Samegrelo region against the demoralized and unpopular government of Eduard Shevardnadze.
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They were charged for the assassination attempt of President Eduard Shevardnadze on 9 February 1998.
During its period as a Soviet Socialist Republic it was ruled by the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party including; Samson Mamulia, Lavrentiy Beria, Candide Charkviani, Vasil Mzhavanadze and Eduard Shevardnadze.
On 22–24 May 1999, Kurashvili and nine other people were arrested over accusations of plotting to assassinate President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and seize power in the country.
He was s supporter of Eduard Shevardnadze and was elected to Georgia's parliament in 1992 where he was involved in inter-ethnic relations.
During the 1992-1993 civil war between the adherents of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his opponents, Igor Giorgadze sided with Eduard Shevardnadze and in 1993, was appointed the country's Minister of State Security.
Mikheil Saakashvili's National Movement party played a major role in the so-called Rose Revolution of 2003 which ousted President Eduard Shevardnadze.
Slier has interviewed leading politicians including Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniye, former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Republika Srpska Prime Minister, Milorad Dodik, the former Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze and South African President Jacob Zuma.
Eduard Shevardnadze (born 1928), Soviet and Georgian politician, a son of Dmitri Shevarnadze's cousin
Foreign minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze seemingly confirmed this when he resigned on 20 December 1990, stating that a dictatorship was coming.
His son Igor Giorgadze was forced into exile after being accused of plotting to assassinate Eduard Shevardnadze.
Eduard Shevardnadze | Eduard Stiefel | Eduard Hanslick | Eduard Khil | Eduard, Duke of Anhalt | Eduard Buchner | Julius Eduard Hitzig | Friedrich Eduard Schulz | Eduard Zeller | Eduard Tubin | Eduard Spranger | Eduard Mörike | Eduard Kuznetsov | Eduard Heis | Eduard Dietl | Eduard Brunner | Eduard van Beinum | Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard Suess | Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Sievers | Eduard Puricelli | Eduard Prchal | Eduard Pechuël-Loesche | Eduard Nalbandyan | Eduard Knoblauch | Eduard Gufeld | Sophie Shevardnadze | Slavoljub Eduard Penkala | Raphael Eduard Liesegang |
It has remained under precarious control of the central Georgian government, but the government of the area has effectively been run, until the recent crisis, by a local authority and warlord Emzar Kvitsiani, who previously led the defense of the gorge against the Abkhaz separatist forces in the capacity of the commander of the local Monadire (literally: "Hunter") militia force and an envoy of the former President of Georgia named Eduard Shevardnadze.
In July 1991, Volksy and other prominent politicians such as Aleksandr Yakovlev, Eduard Shevardnadze, Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak issued a declaration in order to create a movement for democratic reforms.
After the Georgian Civil War and the overthrowing of the democratically elected government by Eduard Shevardnadze in 1992, Maisashvili was forced to flee the country and was granted a political asylum by the United States.
MacKinnon has interviewed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
His work can be found in the private collections of the Queen of the Netherlands, former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, former German political leaders Helmut Kohl and Roman Herzog.
He appeared on the popular U.S. television program Good Morning America to discuss a speech made two days earlier by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
In 1983-1986, he was second and then first secretary of Central Committee of Georgian Komsomol during Eduard Shevardnadze's tenure as the First Secretary of Georgian SSR.