Originally Posted by
invisible
I was born and spent 24 years of my life in Tbilisi, up to 1994. I pretty much know what I am talking about - in 1992-2004 period it was a failed state, so the term 'territory' was used for that context
I lived there in 2002-03 and the visa I have is definitely from the Republic of Georgia. We used Georgian Lari as a currency and went through Georgian immigration each time we entered/exited. It was certainly not a territory or Russia at that time. I'll grant that it was rather unstable and had many problems (lack of electricity for one). I would not consider it a territory no matter how screwed up it was - DR Congo is/was far worse and is not a territory in any way.