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)[reply]
Oppose - The photo is all wet (i.e. that water pitcher is distracting). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Oppose — Blah. Sca (talk) 16:46, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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