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Former Georgian President Shevardnadze dies aged 86
Eduard Shevardnadze served as Soviet Union foreign minister during the Cold War thaw
07.07.2014 - Update : 07.07.2014
TBILISI, Georgia
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has died aged 86, his aide has said.
Marina Davitashvili said Shevardnadze died in Tbilisi on Monday after a long illness.
Born on January 25, 1928, he entered politics in the 1940s and served as head of the Georgian Communist Party from 1972 to 1985.
He rose to worldwide prominence as Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign minister during the final days of the Soviet Union, helping to orchestrate an end to the Cold War.
In 1992 he became Georgia's first post-Soviet president after independence, leading the country out of civil war and instability, but was forced from office in the 2003 Rose Revolution.
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