gamsakhurdia had to fly. the country. knows it was george's second president the experienced political heavyweight that backed me spread a story because soon after he took office he lifted the opposition political parties and allowed independent media. after i went into business in one nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called. over ten years i turned a small studio in the provincial town of the study into a leading national broadcaster. to t.v. channel rushed at the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. corruption in the economic sphere was enormous off the shevardnadze came to power but on the other hand businessmen learned new skills in tune with modern times and a real market economy took shape true there was pervasive corruption from top to bottom but there was also freedom of speech and individual liberty the sort of quagmire that we have now didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel two became a so-called platform for the opposition and ha

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 what they themselves had been opposed to. they trained to become a mathematician in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he left university and went into business his elder brother chose the korea of an actor today he is very popular in georgia i his soul's in short films have an uncanny bearing on the country's present day situation. i had no desire to get involved in the war in a cause here in such a war where brothers were 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 the

gamsakhurdia leader of a nationalist movement with the speaker who made the most extremist remarks in an intensely dramatic speech. in the early hours of april ninth the soviet government despised ahmed vehicles and soldiers against peaceful demonstrators sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. a mathematician and would be magnets 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 ninety 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 one thousand nine hundred one after an election campaign where independence was the catch phrase but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that that independence multo georgian autonomous regions of south ossetia with them own sovereignty into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to self assess year. than a year later to a