TBILISI (Reuters) – Eduard Shevardnadze, who as Soviet Foreign Minister helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, died yesterday after a long illness.
Shevardnadze, who was 86, went on to lead his native Georgia in the stormy early years after independence before being ousted in street protests.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who picked Shevardnadze as a break from the Soviet Union’s old guard of
