Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Shevardnadze

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Original – Eduard Shevardnadze (pictured here in 1997), was Soviet Georgia's leader under Brezhnev's stagnation era (1972-1985), the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1985-1990 (under Gorbachev) and was a quite prominent politician during the perestroika period. After USSR's breakup, he became Georgia's second president from 1992 (as Chairman of the Parliament until 1995) amid a civil war until the Rose Revolution of 2003

Reason

High quality, (I'd say) acceptable EV. The photo is encyclopedic as it depicts a prominent Georgian and Soviet politician. Also, somewhat similar to Saddam's photo.

Articles in which this image appears

Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia, History of Georgia (country), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Robert D. Ward (DoD), retouched by User:Centpacrr

• Support as nominator --Երևանցի ^talk 23:37, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose - The photo is all wet (i.e. that water pitcher is distracting). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose Both the front and background is messy and even the look of Shevardnadze himself is very ordinary. Iselilja (talk) 15:57, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose — Blah. Sca (talk) 16:46, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC)