Merab Chukhua, a well-known Georgian professor from Tbilisi State University, appealed to the global community to recognize the 1944 Chechen-Ingush deportation as well as the ongoing Russian occupation in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as genocide.

Alla Dudaeva, the widow wife of Chechen Republic Ichkeria’s I.President Dzhokhar Dudaeva have opened her painting exhibition in a Georgian town Zugdidi which is the city of the first President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.