International Alert Caucasus Dialogues: Perspectives From the Region The broad context After a series of compromises on a number of contentious issues, the long and difficult process of talks o...
SPECIALLY FOR ALLS by Iraklii Khintba On 17 November 2011, the European Parliament by a majority vote adopted a resolution on Georgia, which the government of Saakashvili has already chris...
Comparative analysis between Kosovo and Abkhazia KOSOVO ABKHAZIA Kosovo never existed as a country before its recent creation. Abkhazia has a history as an independent country num...
Rene Wadlow | Special to Abkhaz World The 7 August 2008 entry of Georgian armed forces into the separatist Republic of South Ossetia, followed by an overwhelming response of South Ossetia's...
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Abkhazia's archive: fire of war, ashes of history
At the end of October, the Abkhazian Research Institute of History, Language and Literature named after Dmitry Gulia, which housed an important library and archive, was deliberately torched by the invaders, who were bent on destroying the documentary evidence that proved Abkhazians' residence in their historical homeland; also targeted was the capital's public library.
The Stalin-Beria Terror in Abkhazia, 1936-1953, by Stephen D. Shenfield -- In the period 1922—1930 Abkhazia enjoyed the status of a union republic associated with but not subordinate to Georgia. On February 19, 1931 the Sixth All-Georgian Congress of Soviets decided, presumably with Stalin’s consent, to deprive Abkhazia of this status and incorporate it into Georgia as an autonomous republic.
'Absence of Will': A commentary, prepared by Metin Sönmez. The documentary film "Absence of Will'', financed by Conciliation Resources (UK) and the Heinrich Boell Foundation (Germany), produced by Studio RE, and directed by Mamuka Kuparadze, was broadcast in 2009 for the first time.
Why I Apologize To Abkhaz People - Choice for Georgia: Georgian Chauvinism or Abkhazia? Ucha Nanuashvili, Initiator of “Sorry” Campaign
Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, Georgia. December 29, 2009
CAUCASUS STUDIES: Migration, Society and Language Papers from the conference, November 28-30 2008, Malmö University Edited by Karina Vamling In this paper, the composition the Circassian (the North...
Dr. Viacheslav A. Chirikba D.I. Gulia Institute for Humanities Research Sukhum, Republic of Abkhazia In this paper, I shall discuss the global problem of language endangerment and how it pertains to...
T.A. Achugba The Ethnic History of the Abkhazians in the XIX-XXth Centuries. Ethno-political and migrational aspects (Sukhum, 2010) R e s u m e The path of the ethnic history of the Abkhazian...
This text is an unpublished dissertation written at School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College of London, summer 2010 regarding the political situation of the Armenian community...
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford-online In association with School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (University of Oxford) and Oxford University Anthropology Society JASO-online...
SUKHUM -- Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaya received a delegation from the European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Philippe Lefort. The meeting was also attended by political...
Semen Pegov / Ekho Kavkaza SUKHUM - An Abkhaz government mission has returned from the Syrian Arab Republic. The delegation included State Committee for Repatriation Chairman Zurab Adleiba, Ministry...
Andrei Babitsky / Ekho Kavkaza PRAGUE --- And now our traditional Friday program "Guest of the Week." Today our guest is a man whose voice and expert opinion you have heard on our program...
On January 10 a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, in connection with the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, where our compatriots live. The meeting...
SUKHUM -- Every day gives new beginning, every new year gives a true hope for better future, Abkhazia’s President Alexander Ankvab told the nation in his New Year address. “2011 is going...
Origins and Evolutions of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict, by Stephen D. Shenfield
In this paper I trace the emergence and evolution of the Georgian—Abkhaz conflict up to the invasion of Abkhazia by Georgian...
Why Can Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Not Emulate Willi Brandt? by Liz Fuller. The international community may have forgotten (or chosen to overlook) Georgia's earlier attempts to reconquer Abkhazia by force in May 1998 and September-October...
- Abkhazia by John Colarusso
- Vandals of the end of the XXth century, by Ermolay K. Adzhindzhal
- The west's moral failure over Georgia, by Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity
- Abkhazia, Georgia and the Caucasus Confederation, by Stanislav Lakoba
- Two year anniversary of August War 2008, by Irakli Khintba
- Military Aspects of the War. The Battle for Gagra (The Turning-point), by Dodge Billingsley
- A reply to Paul Henze’s views on Georgia, by George Hewitt - February 1993
- Ossetia-Georgia-Russia-U.S.A. Towards a Second Cold War?, by Noam Chomsky
- Thinking the Unthinkable: What if Georgia and the West Were to Recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia? by Paul Goble
- A Chance to Join the World, by Neal Ascherson
- Hitler calls on Georgians to win back Abkhazia
- Opinion: Hottentot morality - Uri Avnery
- The West Shares the Blame for Georgia, By Anatol Lieven
- Abkhazia: A Broken Paradise, by Georgi Derluguian
- Abkhazia’s Statehood in the Post-Soviet Period, by T. M. Shamba, A. U. Neproshin
- Lesson to the West: Abkhazian independence is a fact, by Inal Khashig
- Nationalism, revolution and war in the Caucasus, by Tony Iltis
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Transformation of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: rethinking the paradigm, by Natella Akaba and Iraklii Khintba |
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Why Independence For Abkhazia Is The Best Solution, by George Hewitt - After the Red Army brought Transcaucasia into the Bolshevik fold, Abkhazia's full republican status was recognised by Georgia on...
Abkhazia at various times in history
The maps included here give an idea of the frontiers of Abkhazia at various times in history. Click here to see historical maps
- Abkhazia is Abkhazia, by Stanislav Lakoba
- Place, Position and Future of Abkhazia in the Second New World Order, by Nikolai Zlobin
- It's time to talk, and it's time to be honest, by Nicholas Michael Morgan
- Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin years, by Rachel Clogg
- The Gali Obsession, by Richard Berge
- The view from Abkhazia of South Ossetia ablaze, by Paula Garb
- Wikileaks, South Ossetia and the Russian "reset", by Hans Mouritzen
- Abkhasian Mountaineers - The Graphic (London, England), September 8, 1877
- Travels in Circassia – Part II - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine: July-December, 1856
- Declaration of the Revolutionary Committee of the SSR of Georgia on Independence of the SSR of Abkhazia - 21 May 1921
- TEPAV - ORSAM Report: Abkhazia for the Integration of the Black Sea
- EUROCLIO - 2005 - Fact Finding Mission to Abkhazia and Georgia
- UNPO: November 1992 Mission to Abkhazia
- UNPO: Human Rights Report Mission Abkhazia 1992-1994
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