COLORED REVOLUTIONS IN UKRAINE AND GEORGIA: REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA REGION

Authors : Vsevolod SAMOKHVALOV

Pages : 99-111

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Publication Date : 2005-09-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Two years ago, after the Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze tried to legitimize electoral fraud in order to prolong his power, a united opposition movement headed by the young lawyer Mikheil Saakashvili initiated public protests against the corrupt regime and actually removed the old political elite from power. Saakashvili supporters, representatives of the civil society and opposition parties, flooded central squares of the Georgian capital bringing hundreds of roses. Those flowers were just the first signs of serious changes that were to come in the post-Soviet space.
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