[2] Then, on October 8, 2001, a helicopter carrying United Nations observers was shot down over Kodori, killing nine.

[4] The crisis was largely neglected by the world media, which was focused on the concurrent US attack on Afghanistan.

Chkhetiani, a resident of Kutaisi born in 1973, had been condemned to a prison sentence of 15 years.

[5] On 29 July 2006, Mart Laar, former prime minister of Estonia and then adviser to the Georgian president, was quoted as saying that the Kodori conflict was engineered by Russia.

[6] On 30 April 2008, Russia accused Georgia of massing 1500 troops in the Kodori region in preparation to invade Abkhazia.