Waking Shevardnadze

RantWoman is probably not going to have time or Light to pen as much of a reflection as Georgian diplomat and former leader of the Republic of BGeorgia Eduard Shevardnadze deserves. But RantWoman can at least dump here a sampling of her reading for the day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/world/europe/eduard-shevardnadze-soviet-foreign-minister-under-gorbachev-is-dead-at-86.html?_r=0

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140707/controversial-legacy-former-soviet-foreign-minister-shevardnadze

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/07/eduard-shevardnadze-dies_n_5562781.html

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/world/europe/eduard-shevardnadze-death/index.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28190328

The English language Wikipedia article about Sophia Shevardnadze, granddaughter of the late leader:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Shevardnadze