Georgian ex-President Eduard Shevardnadze certifies to the facts of Russian intelligence activity on the eve of Rose Revolution. In an interview to one of the most popular Georgian newspaper’s Kviris Palitra, Shevardnadze recalled the events preceding the so-called Rose Revolution, saying that his entire retinue except then Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili had betrayed him and sided with "the conspirators" led by Zurab Zhvania and Mikheil Saakashvili, news agency Interfax relates the story. Shevardnadze claimed that Zhvania had received "a very large sum of money" from Russia before the elections.