Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet, Tbilisi ta fuskanci lokutan rashin kwanciyar hankali da tashin hankali. Bayan wani ɗan gajeren yakin basasa, wanda birni ya jimre na makonni biyu daga Disamba 1991 zuwa Janairu 1992 (lokacin da masu goyon bayan Gamsakhurdia da 'yan adawa suka yi karo), Tbilisi ya zama wurin da ake yawan gwagwarmaya da makamai tsakanin' yan mafia daban-daban da masu gudanar da harkokin kasuwanci ba bisa ka'ida ba. Ko da a lokacin Shevardnadze Era (1993 <unk> 2003), aikata laifuka da cin hanci da rashawa ya zama ruwan dare a mafi yawan matakan al'umma. Yawancin jama'a sun zama matalauta saboda rashin aikin yi da tattalin arziki ya jawo. Matsakaicin 'yan asalin Tbilisi sun fara zama masu rashin jin daɗi game da ingancin rayuwa a cikin birni (da cikin al'umma gaba ɗaya). An gudanar da zanga-zangar gama-gari a watan Nuwamba na 2003 bayan da aka yi zaben 'yan majalisa na bogi wanda ya tilasta wa mutane sama da 100,000 zuwa tituna kuma ya ƙare da Juyin Juya Halin Rose. Tun 2003, Tbilisi ta sami kwanciyar hankali sosai tare da raguwar yawan aikata laifuka, ingantaccen tattalin arziki, da haɓakar ƙasa. A lokacin yakin Ossetia ta Kudu na 2008
, yankin Tbilisi ya sha fama da hare-haren sama da yawa na Rasha.