I forhold til andre regioner gik det dette land relativt godt, og derfor var kommunismens sammenbrud og landets søgen efter nye strukturer og de nye demokratiske muligheder, en markedsøkonomi indebærer, forbundet med meget vanskelige ledsagefænomener.
By comparison with other regions, the situation in Georgia was relatively good, so that the coUapse of communism and the quest for new structures and the new democratic possibilities opened up by a market economy was accompanied by some particularly serious problems.