[9] He was arrested in Constantinople[10] and subsequently rather than being banished with Baháʼu'lláh's party to Akka or others to Cyprus, he was deported to Persia though in transit he was released by the Kurds.
[11] And initially the religion still grew in organization when the election of the regional National Assembly of the Baháʼís of the Caucasus and Turkistan took place in 1925.
[12] However, with the Soviet policy of religious oppression, the Baháʼís, strictly adhering to their principle of obedience to legal government, abandoned its administration and any properties were nationalized.
[13] In 1953 Baháʼís started to move to the Soviet Republics in Asia, after the head of the religion at the time, Shoghi Effendi, initiated a plan called the Ten Year Crusade.
"[17] There is a project to revise school curricula to represent the diverse religions in Georgia on a more neutral basis than done in recent years.