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In November of 2003, a peaceful pro-Western movement, now known as “The Rose Revolution” occurred in Georgia. That movement eventually led to the removal of Eduard Shevardnadze from the presidency and the elevation of Mikheil Saakashvili to that office. Fortuitously for the Library of Congress, Acquisitions Specialist Paul Crego, already in Tbilisi at that time, gathered examples for our collections from the Georgian newspapers’ coverage of that event.