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Tbilisi, November 22, 2003 (AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky) 23.11.2008, 19:50

Roses are red, Georgia is blue

With its two breakaway republics completely lost, its army scattered following defeat in the ‘five-day war’, its key industrial assets on sale, its President’s ties all chewed, and freedom of speech on its territory in s

Thorns not roses? Georgia's revolution four years on

Published: 23 November, 2007, 08:06


Key figures of the Rose Revolution: Mikhail Saakashvili (left), Nino Burdzhanadze (center) and Zurab Zhvania

Georgia is marking the fourth anniversary of the Rose Revolution that swept Mikhail Saakashvili to power in 2003. In November of that year demonstrators stormed parliament following a rigged election, forcing the resignation of President Shevardnadze.

 
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