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What act striped South Ossetia from its autonomous region status?

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In 1990 South Ossetia having previously unilaterally declared itself an independent republic within the Soviet Union in response to increasing Georgian nationalism was stripped of its autonomous region status by an act of the Georgian Supreme Soviet.

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