 Complete the following phrase:  Makharadze was a regular contributor to the Georgian political press since the 1990s. In 2003, shortly after the Rose Revolution in Georgia, he co-founded and co-chaired the political movement chveni adjara Our Adjara, which opposed the regime of the Adjarian strongman Aslan Abashidze. In February 2004 he became a member of the Parliament of Georgia and in June he was elected to the Supreme Council of Adjara, a regional legislature reelected after 