Mukhrovani

Mukhrovani
Mukhrovani
Location of Mukhrovani in Georgia
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Country  Georgia
Time zone Georgian Time (UTC+4)

Mukhrovani (Georgian: მუხროვანი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, within which is a military base involved in the 2009 Georgian troop mutiny and an earlier mutiny by 60 soldiers on December 20, 2004.[1] It lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the capital Tbilisi,[2] and has held up to members the Special Units of the Ministry of State Security for Georgia, as well as an airborne brigade of 1,000 troops and a tank unit of the Georgian army.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Wheatley, p. 202.
  2. ^ "MoD Says Military Unit Mutinies" (in English). Civil.Ge. http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=20848. Retrieved 2009-05-05. 
  3. ^ Belkin, p. 106.

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