Eduard Shevardnadze fail Assassination attempt

Eduard Shevardnadze fail Assassination attempt 

In October 1998, an attempt was made on the life of Georgian President E. Shevardnadze

His cortege was fired at first from grenade launchers, and then from automatic weapons. The President was not injured thanks to his armored Mercedes S600 W140. Daimler immediately replaced the crippled car with a new one. They couldn't even imagine a better advertisement.

Just as a silverback is chased out from his leadership position by aggressive younger males, Eduard Shevardnadze, nicknamed in his country “Silver Fox” — Tetri Melia in Georgian — resigned his presidency on November 23, 2003. His last political gesture was a great boon to his nation: Shevardnadze refused to order his troops to shoot the opposition. Mindful of what the history books will say about him, the man who led Georgia, on and off, for 31 years decided to bow out gracefully. A wise man, he was not ready for the role of a Slobodan Milosevic or a Nicolae Ceausescu.

Shevardnadze’s resignation brings the amazing yin and yang of his life and times closer to an end. In 1992, supported by Russia, he was hailed by his people as the savior of Georgia and was later bolstered by the United States. By November 2003, he was reviled by his countrymen and hung out to dry by his allies in Moscow and in Washington. After Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine, Boris Yeltsin of Russia, and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan, he is the fourth transitional post-Soviet leader to make way for a younger ruler.

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