shevardnadze with georgia's second president the experience political heavyweights and back michelle goldberg spellers story. soon after he took office he lifted the ban on opposition political parties and allowed independent media we're not europe after i went into business in one nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called restore me to over ten years i tender small studio in the provincial town of the star me into a leading national broadcaster. the first study to t.v. channels 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 after seven knots or 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 there was pervasive corruption from top to bottom but there was also freedom of speech and individual liberty that sort of caught my eye that we have now it didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel or starving to became a so-called platform for the opposition and had great political