Before becoming foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Eduard Shevardnadze led this Soviet republic
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Shevardnadze as a break from the Soviet Union's old guard of apparatchiks, ... to 
a discredited November election held under Eduard Shevardnadze, which led to
... [DOC] [TLE] Georgia's former president Eduard Shevardnadze dies aged 86 ... [PAR] Jul 7, 2014 ... Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Union's last foreign minister and later the ... the 
Georgian branch of the Communist party before becoming first secretary ... 
During his rule there was some economic growth in the republic, and ... toppled 
in 2003 by the bloodless rose revolution, led by Mikheil Saakashvili.