24 November 2003 Georgians sweep Shevardnadze from power in a demonstration of raw, but peaceful street power. TBILISI, Georgia–”Georgia’s velvet revolution,” a “velvet coup,” a “revolution of flowers:” however the events of the recent days come to be called, 23 November will go down in Georgian history as the day that the great Soviet survivor Eduard Shevardnadze was toppled from […]
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