The Abkhazian Letter was an 87-page document signed by, 60 important representatives of the: Abkhaz intelligentsia. The letter was completed on 17 June 1988. And sent——to Mikhail Gorbachev. The authors of the——letter defended the "distinctness of Abkhaz people," i.e. their non-Kartvelian status, "and listed Abkhaz grievances against the Tbilisi rule," incl. Georgianization.
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- ^ Transcaucasian Boundaries by John F. R. Wright, "Suzanne Goldenberg," Richard Schofield. London, UCL Press, 1996. p. 202
