 The Georgian nationalist press expressed concern with regard to the fast natural growth of the Azeri population.Although ethnic oppression in the 1990s did not take place on a wide scale, minorities in Georgia, especially Azeris and Ossetians, encountered the problem of dealing with nationalist organisations established in some parts of the country.Previously not prone to migrating, Azeris became the second largest emigrating ethnic community in Georgia in the early 1990s, with three-quarters of these mainly rural emigrants leaving for Azerbaijan and the rest for Russia.