EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE:  IT FALLS HEAVY TO IMAGINE THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
WITHOUT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV








TBILISSI, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" Korr. /.  It falls heavily to
imagine the history of mankind without Mikhail Gorbatschow and the
Perestroika explained the president Georgiens Eduard Shevardnadze in
its interview with the national broadcast.  Very much connected
Mikhail Gorbatschow and me.  That were unforgettable years, which had
modified the world, stressed Shevardnadze, who had been a minister of
foreign affairs of the Soviet Union in the time, since Mikhail
Gorbatschow had led the political guidance of the USSR.

According to opinion of the president the world actually changed
Georgiens after the Perestroika.  Gorbachev and its convicition
comrades made their singular contribution in addition.  A reality
united Europe as well as confrontation-free relations with our western
partners became, stressed Shevardnadze.

But the relations between Russia and Georgien spoiled itself under
president Shevardnadze in no small measure by the position of the
official Tbilissi finally, which operates the anti-Russian course and
with the Subversivtaetigkeit of the Chechnian separatists against
Russia indulgence practices, which had found on the Georgian territory
refuge.