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Biography
Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე, Eduard Ambrosis dze Ševardnadze; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia (or in equivalent posts) from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution. (wiki)
Awards & recognition
- Order of Outstanding Merit · 2003
- Independence Order · 2000
- Order of Saint Michael and Saint George · 2000
- Gold Olympic Order · 1999
- Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 1999
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- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class · 1999
- Order of State of Republic of Turkey · 1999
- Order of Lenin · 1988
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class · 1985
- Hero of Socialist Labour · 1981
- Order of Lenin · 1981
- Order of Lenin · 1978
- Order of the October Revolution · 1976
- Order of Lenin · 1973
- Order of Lenin · 1971
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" · 1970
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour · 1966
- Medal "For Labour Valour" · 1960
- honorary citizen of Tbilisi
- honorary doctor of Baku State University
- Honored Worker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Medal "For excellent service in the protection of public order"
- Order of Bethlehem
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots
