She spoke for many hours about her life and fate in the small Caucasus republic that has shaped much of what has happened in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.
Yeltsin forced Gorbachev to read decrees that, among other things, turned all Soviet property in Russia over to the Russian state, at that time the largest republic comprising the Soviet Union.
The Republic of Cyprus, which in legal terms means the whole island, joined the EU in 2004, and Cypriots on both sides of the Green Line are citizens of the union.