 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Akakurumidza kubviswa mucoup détat yeropa, kubva pana 22 December 1991 kusvika 6 January 1992. Kudengenyeka kwenyika kwakatangwa nechikamu cheNational Guards uye sangano remauto rinonzi Mkhedrioni vatasvi vemabhiza. Nyika yacho yakabatanidzwa muhondo yevagari vemo yakashata, iyo yakapfuurira kusvikira munenge muna 1995. Eduard Shevardnadze Gurukota reSoviet rezvekunze kubva muna 1985 kusvika muna 1991 akadzokera kuGeorgia muna 1992. Kurwisana kwakanga kuchitsva mumatunhu maviri eGeorgia, Abkhazia neSouth Ossetia, pakati pevapanduki vomunzvimbomo navanhu vazhinji veGeorgia, kwakapararira kuva masimba masimba uye hondo dzamarudzi akawanda. Dzichitsigirwa neRussia, Abkhazia neSouth Ossetia dzakawana kuzvitonga de facto kubva kuGeorgia, neGeorgia ichiri kudzora nzvimbo diki dzenzvimbo dzinopokana. 