- President of the Republic of Georgia (1995-2003).
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (2 July 1985-20 December 1990 and 19 November-26 December 1991).
- Children: Manana, Director of the Georgian TV-Films Studio; Paata, Head of UNESCO mission.
- Holds Honorary Doctorates from Harvard, Boston, Emory, Providence and Trieste Universities.
- Survived two assassination attempts in the 1990s.
- (23 November) Announced his resignation as President of Georgia, bowing to protesters who stormed parliament and declared a "velvet revolution." Shevardnadze was widely blamed for the grinding poverty in the violent and unstable former Soviet republic, and was accused by opponents of vote-rigging the 2 November parliamentary election. (November 2003)
- Soviet Union Political Figure.
- His father was a committed communist, a view that was not shared by his mother, who tried to persuade father and son to renounce their political activities. He joined the Communist Party's youth movement in 1946, rising rapidly through the ranks to become Georgian party boss in 1972.
- Grandfather of "Russia Today" (RT) TV network presenter Sophie Shevardnadze.
- CPSU official.
- First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (29 September 1972-6 July 1985).
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