gamsakhurdia had to flee the country. thanks ben was shevardnadze was george's second president the experience political heavyweights the fact michel goodrich had a story. soon after he took office he lifted the ban on off as a shrewd political parties and allowed independent media when i did it after i went into business in one thousand nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called. over ten years i turned the small studio in the provincial town the first army into a leading national broadcaster. the first study to t.v. channel rushed out at the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. sure corruption in the economic sphere was enormous officer of a nazi came to power but on the other hand businessmen learns new skills in tune with modern times and a real market economy took shape true it was pervasive corruption from top to bottom but there was also freedom of speech and individual liberty a sort of quagmire that we have now didn't exist then. independe

gamsakhurdia leader of a nationalist movement was the speaker who made the most extremist remarks in an intensely dramatic speech. in the early hours of april ninth the soviet government dispatched vehicles and soldiers against peaceful demonstrators sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. a mathematician and would be magnet of georgia was lucky enough to evade even injury. we were in too much of a hurry we were trying to study history to help move it forward what happened then had to happen but of course the thought the georgian might become independent is nine hundred ninety one never crossed my mind back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the afghans are for the became the first president of a sovereign georgia in april nine hundred ninety one after an election campaign where independence was the catch phrase but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence multo georgian autonomous regions of south ossetia would demand sovereignty into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to suffer says here. people are once neighbors became b

len many georgian opposition parties and even spearhead gamsakhurdia as former associates demonstrated that discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals sent numerous letters to the president asking him to come to his senses. responded by imposing censorship. all of them with a nine hundred ninety one law even denied registration for all political parties it was indorsed by people who had served terms in soviet prisons and campaigned for georgia's freedom and independence. most people did while they themselves had been opposed to. train to become a mathematician in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he left university and went into business his elder brother will be chose the career of an actor today he is very popular in georgia i his soul is in short films have an uncanny bearing on the country's present day situation. i had no desire to get involved in the war and i'm kasi i'm such a war we're brothers we're killing brothers so i decided to stay away from georgia for a time there were. those who were displeased with the first president gathered to openly demand his resignation