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...EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, CHAIRMAN OF THE GEORGIAN SUPREME SOVIET...
...sooner had Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia's head of state, suffered this humiliating defeat than he too began receiving military assistance from the Russians. Those weapons, however, were not for fighting the Abkhazians -- who had already consolidated their victory -- but for putting down another insurrection by Georgian followers of former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Thanks to the Russian guns, Gamsakhurdia's resistance finally collapsed. Now rival leaders on both sides of the rope boundary find themselves indebted to Moscow. To Chachua, at least, the logic is all too obvious. "Everything here," the Georgian commander concludes, "depends on Russia...
...release, allowing him to run for President in 1991. Once in office, however, he muzzled the press, imprisoned rivals and stonewalled parliament. He was overthrown in 1992. Undeterred, Gamsakhurdia unleashed a civil war that was quieted only after Russian troops joined the fray on the side of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who, when he heard of his rival's death, pronounced that the man had been "a political corpse for a long time." Without confirmation of when, how or even if Gamsakhurdia died, it is not yet certain whether Georgia's knight-errant is a corpse of any kind...
With military help from neighboring countries, Georgian government regulars and rebel forces have each scored important victories against the other. Using Russian-supplied T-72 tanks and personnel, troops loyal to Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze drove the rebels into their last redoubt, in the western region of the republic. But with the help of reinforcements from Abkhazia, the separatists staged a powerful counteroffensive, recapturing an important town...
After Georgia promised to join the Commonwealth of Independent States, dominated by Russia, Moscow agreed to send troops to defend a vital railway in the western part of the republic, where fighting between rebels and government forces persists. Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze has accused the Russian military of helping the Abkhazian separatists...