Ajara in the Post-Soviet Period (1990-2023 years)

Authors

  • Ucha Okropiridze PhD in History, Chief scientific researcher at the Department of History and Archaeology of Niko Bardzenishvili Institute of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1696-0781

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61671/bsrcc.v2i2.8681

Keywords:

Ajara; Post-Soviet period; Batumi.

Abstract

The paper begins with the events that developed in Georgia in early 1989. It tells about the processes developed here on April 9, 1989, and the events surrounding the autonomous formations in Georgia. It discusses the results of the elections of the Georgian Congress on September 30, 1990, and the elections of the Supreme Council of Georgia on October 28 of the same year and their influence on the current events in our region. The relationship between the activities of the parties of the national direction in Adjara and the national government of Georgia at the initial stage of their coming to power and the attitude of Aslan Abashidze's government towards it is studied. The prerequisites for the creation of the "Revival Union" in Adjara after the December-January 1991-1992 military-criminal coup in Georgia and the dynamics of its formation, the struggle against the putschist coup in Georgia are analyzed.
The driving impulses of the October 11, 1992 "Hope" and the subsequent "Uimedo" elections in Georgia and its results in Adjara and Georgia as a whole are investigated. The activity of the Adjara National Forces and its activities in the struggle for the restoration of legality in Georgia.
The coup d'état of March 1, 1994 - the ratification of Georgia's entry into the CIS. year by the Parliament and the role of the Adjara deputation in this case.
The changes in the state and system structures of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in 1991-2002 have been studied. The arrival of Mikheil Saakashvili in the central government of Georgia and the changes implemented in the autonomy of Ajara - on May 6, 2004, A. from the government of Ajara. The departure of Abashidze and the establishment of the government of the National Movement here, the policy pursued by him until 2012. Since October 2012, Saakashvili's team has left the government of Georgia and the modern policy of the "Dream" government in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Its activities and priorities.

Published

2025-02-21

How to Cite

Okropiridze, U. (2025). Ajara in the Post-Soviet Period (1990-2023 years). BLACK SEA REGION AT THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS, 2(2), 164–177. https://doi.org/10.61671/bsrcc.v2i2.8681