Georgia’s so-called plan to cooperate with Abkhazia is more than a decade too late. Access to broader trade and commerce, education, healthcare, and cultural interaction are all unive...
Issues Points Memo – Interview with Cholaria Boris Shalikovich, director of the I.G. Papaskir National Library of the Republic of Abkhazia. Interview conducted by Evelyn Iritani from Saylor Co...
Issues Points Memo – Interview with Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the World Security Institute in Washington and a former professor at Moscow State University. In...
Hasan Kanbolat, Director of ORSAM Sergei Bagapsh won again in the Dec. 12 presidential elections held in Abkhazia, which has declared a one-sided (de facto) independence from Georgia. Wh...
Choice for Georgia: Georgian Chauvinism or Abkhazia? Ucha Nanuashvili, Initiator of “Sorry” Campaign Executive Director of the Human Rights Center December 29, 2009 “Sorry” Campaig...
by Kirill Kolodin (Tbilisi) 25 December, 2009 The televisions channel “Sakartvelo” aired a remarkably creative video that, in theory at least, should entice young people to join the army. The ...
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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.
'Absence of Will': A commentary Prepared by Metin Sönmez Editor, CircassianWorld.com & AbkhazWorld.com The documentary film "Absence of Will'', financed by Conciliation Resources (UK) and...
Russia Profile, January 14, 2010 As Moscow and Ankara Strengthen Ties Through Energy Cooperation, Could Turkey Become the Fifth Country to Recognize the Independence of Abkhazia? The two...
Mitat Çelikpala Department of International Relations TOBB Economy and Technology University Ankara, Turkey Kafsam (The Caucasian Center for Strategic Studies) Policy Brief 1001 January...
Hasan Kanbolat, Director of ORSAM Sergei Bagapsh won again in the Dec. 12 presidential elections held in Abkhazia, which has declared a one-sided (de facto) independence from Georgia. These...
TEPAV - ORSAM: ABKHAZIA FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE BLACK SEA, Report No: 8, December 2009 The break-up of the Soviet Union had far-reaching consequences on Turkey’s close neighborhood....
February 2 - SUKHUM, ABKHAZIA - A meeting held today chaired by the President Sergey Bagapsh was dedicated to the situation in the border Gal district. It was attended by the Speaker of...
The ninth round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia is scheduled in Geneva for January 28. They have been held since October 2008 on the basis of the Russian...
The following Issues Points interview was conducted by Steven Ellis of Saylor Company with Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Doug Bandow is a senior fellow...
ABSENCE OF WILL Documentary by Mamuka Kuparadze - 2009 Conciliation Resources, Heinrich Boell Foundation and Studio Re Vakho and Teo are twenty-something university graduates from ...
Bruce Talley interviewed with Nadir Bitiev, an advisor to Abkhazia's President Sergei Bagapsh, on November 20, 2009 in Sukhum, Abkhazia. Mr. Bitiev spoke about the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia,...
Georgia’s so-called plan...
Issues Points Memo – Interview with...
Issues Points Memo – Interview with...
Hasan Kanbolat, Director of...
Choice for Georgia: Georgian Chauvinism or...
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...
The International Legal Status of the Republic of Abkhazia In the Light of International Law. Paper read at the conference “Independence of Abkhazia and Prospects for the Caucasus” organized by the Friends of Abkhazia Civil Initiative. Istanbul, Bilgi University, 30 May 2009.
- Remarks on the Georgian – Russian conflict of August 2008 and on Abkhazia (1995), by John Colarusso
- Ethno-demographic history of Abkhazia, 1886 - 1989, by Daniel Müller
- The west's moral failure over Georgia, by Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity
- Abkhazia, Georgia and the Caucasus Confederation, by Stanislav Lakoba
- Soviet Abkhazia 1989 Facts and Thoughts, by Viktor Popkov
- Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership, by George B. Hewitt, 1993
- Ossetia-Georgia-Russia-U.S.A. Towards a Second Cold War?, by Noam Chomsky
- A Chance to Join the World, by Neal Ascherson
- 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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Abkhazia's Liberation and International Law, by E. K. Adzhindzhal
Certainly there is a view that the right of nations to self-determination is the corner stone of democracy. When we speak about democracy we first of all mean the power of the people. But power does not exist without rights.
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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
Demographic change in Abkhazia When most of Abkhazia was denuded of its native population in the wake of (a) the end of the Great Caucasian War in 1864 and (b) the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, the question arose as to who would make the most appropriate substitute-population.
Declaration of the Revolutionary Committee of the SSR of Georgia on Independence of the SSR of Abkhazia - 21 May 1921
Proceeding form the aforementioned the Revolutionary Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia recognizes and welcomes the establishment of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia...
Abkhazia is Abkhazia, by Stanislav Lakoba
Is it really true that being part of the world-community we Abkhazians, numbering about 100,000 in Abkhazia itself, are doing harm to this community. Is it possible that if mankind, having already lost in the 19th century our brothers the Ubykhs, is now to lose us Abkhazians at the close of the 20th century, it will become somehow richer in the 3rd millennium A.D.?!
BRUCE TALLEY'S BLOG, 9 DECEMBER 2009
Abkhazia- The Black Sea Region's Best Kept Secret
WINDOW ON EURASIA, 6 NOVEMBER 2009
A Tragic Anniversary in Georgia, by Paul Goble
SCRAPS OF MOSCOW, 10 OCTOBER 2009
Abkhazian National Library
MCCLATCHY, 4 OCTOBER 2009
Russia-Georgia conflict and U.S. foreign policy from the hip, by Dennis Jett
CIVIL.GE, 3 OCTOBER 2009
Zourabichvili on Road Ahead after War Report
RUSSIA: OTHER POINTS OF VIEW, 2 OCTOBER 2009
New York Times on Russia-Georgia War, by Gordon Hahn
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30 SEPTEMBER 2009
Lessons of the Georgia Conflict, by Heidi Tagliavini
DEUTSCHE WELLE, 30 SEPTEMBER 2009
Independent report blames Georgia for South Ossetia war
TELEGRAPH, 29 SEPTEMBER 2009
Georgia waits for Tagliavini report on causes of 2008 war
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