Occupied Territories of Sachkhere Municipality

Abstract

The civil war of the 1990s, the weakness of coordination of the newly formed law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Georgia made it easier for the Russian Federation to achieve its aggressive anti-legal goals in two large historical regions of Georgia - the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia and the northern part of Shida Kartli (Tskhinvali, Java, Znauri, Kornisi).The Russian-backed separatist forces managed to escape from the control of official Tbilisi by forming their own illegal territorial associations. It is widely known that the activities of the separatist forces are much more active on the side of Shida Kartli than on the direction of Imereti, therefore, most of our citizens do not know that the so-called South Ossetia, the Russian Federation has occupied an important territory in the northeast of the Sachkhere municipality of Zemo-Imereti. Historically, as well as geographically, this area is practically not studied. Based on the current situation, it is practically impossible to study this territory directly in the field, but we tried to obtain several important information from local forced migrants (Vitaly Bakhturidze, Mevludi Kusiani). Which gives us a basis for important conclusions when summarized together with archival materials.