It is 25 years to the day since the Soviet Union was officially dissolved, ending decades of communist rule.
Many of its former republics such Georgia have been struggling with economic stagnation.
With little hope of employment generation, people have moved not just from rural to urban but out of the country. Georgia's population has fallen dramatically by almost 30 percent since 1990.
Al Jazeera's Forestier-Walker reports from Lutkhubi, in rural Georgia, where the population is in serious decline.
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