Irakli Khintba: ‘No country can tolerate being treated disparagingly and even at times offensively. We demand respect for Abkhazia.’

Irakli Khintba: ‘No country can tolerate being treated disparagingly and even at times offensively. We demand respect for Abkhazia.’

Republic of Abkhazia Deputy Foreign Minister I.R. Khintba’s interview to the news agency ApsnyPress. Apsnypress: Irakli Revazovich, I would like to clarify one more time, what prompted the...

‘Abkhazia’s Day’ in Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnography

‘Abkhazia’s Day’ in Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnography

‘Abkhazia’s Day’ was held on 22 April, 2012, at Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnography under the rubric of the annual conference dedicated to the countries and peoples of the Caucasus. As ...

Protesting General Tyszkiewicz

Protesting General Tyszkiewicz

Demis Polandov, PRAGUE (Ekho Kavkaza) --- It is hard to call the decision by the Foreign Ministry of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia to declare undesirable the presence at the Gal meetings ...

Vyacheslav Chirikba: “Abkhazia without the Abkhaz people would merely turn into a second Sochi or Adler”

Vyacheslav Chirikba: “Abkhazia without the Abkhaz people would merely turn into a second Sochi or Adler”

  Vestnik Kavkaza Abkhaz FM Vyacheslav Chirikba told VK about the main vectors of Abkhaz foreign politcies, about its relations with Russia, business connections with Turkey and the ...

Kosovo or Abkhazia: Contrasts and Comparisons

Kosovo or Abkhazia: Contrasts and Comparisons

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...

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A History Erased


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.

Stalin-Beria Terror in Abkhazia


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' Commentary

'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

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

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People's Peacemaking Perspectives: Georgian–Abkhaz conflict – Policy brief

People's Peacemaking Perspectives: Georgian–Abkhaz conflict – Policy brief

Publication date: MAR 2012 Source: Conciliation Resources It's 20 years since the start of the Georgian-Abkhaz war in 1992. At the heart of the conflict, one of a number that accompanied the...

'Bystander in its neighbourhood? The European Union's involvement in protracted conflicts in the post-Soviet space', by Marco Siddi & Barbara Gaweda

'Bystander in its neighbourhood? The European Union's involvement in protracted conflicts in the post-Soviet space', by Marco Siddi & Barbara Gaweda

IEP Policy Papers on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, No. 1/2012, Institut für Europäische Politik Berlin About the authors Barbara Gaweda is currently working as a public affairs consultant...

It is terrible, not to say a horror! By Inal Khashig

Ekho Kavkaza -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, dissatisfied with the refusal to register very serious incidents in the border-area, including several murders, slammed the "door" in the...

Adjika: Sauce of Glory, Pride of Abkhazia, by Oliver Bullough

Roads & Kingdoms -- In order to make building materiel for a nest, a wasp masticates wood, mixing it up with saliva and spitting it out into a pulp. I have never tried making a home that way...

Baron Pyotr Karlovich Uslar: Inventor of the First Abkhaz Alphabet, by Stephen D. Shenfield

Stephen D. Shenfield | Special to Abkhaz World Introduction Prior to the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, Abkhaz and the other languages of the mountain peoples existed only in oral form....

Democracy in Abkhazia: a testing year, by George Hewitt

Lessons for Moscow, by Sergei Markedonov

Abkhazia's Inconclusive Election, by Anaid Gogoryan

History: Ist-XVIIIth Century, by Oleg Bgazhba

World Water Day: A Global Focus and Local Action, by Rene Wadlow

Newspaper archives: 1992-93 War

Review of Tom Trier, Hedgiv Lohm, David Szakonyi, 'Under Siege: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Abkhazia'

Independents defeat prominent politicians in Abkhazia’s parliamentary elections

Book review: "Improbable Abkhazie" by Leon Colm

Remembering the peace train, by Stephen Shenfield

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Compatriots have returned to Abkhazia from Syria

Compatriots have returned to Abkhazia from Syria

SUKHUM -- The first group of compatriots from Syria, numbering 27 persons (including 12 children) today arrived in Abkhazia. As was reported to ApsnyPress by the head of the regional department...

Ankvab: "We are not seeking to prevail upon anyone to recognise us, but we do not want to communicate with the world through Tbilisi"

SUKHUM -- Today, President Aleksandr Ankvab received the Ambassador of Germany to Georgia, Ortvina Hoenig. This is the first visit of the Ambassador, who was appointed two years ago. "Abkhazia is a wonderful...

Statement of the MFA of Abkhazia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia is totally perplexed by the confrontational position of the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM), general Andrzej Tyszkiewicz....

The meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, Viacheslav Chirikba with the delegation of the European Union

SUKHUM -- On April 23, 2012 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, Viacheslav Chirikba met with the delegation of the European Union, comprising of the Head of Operations...

President Aleksandr Ankvab received Professor of the Sorbonne Michael Kazan

SUKHUM -- Today, President Aleksandr Ankvab received Professor at the Sorbonne, leading member of the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Michael...

Countries ready to recognize Abkhazia face threats and blackmail

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia: The country will be recognized despite pressure from the US

Interview of Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Irakli Khintba for the news-agency "ApsnyPress"

Up to 30 people are ready to relocate from Syria to live in Abkhazia

Statement by Dieter Boden

Invited and Uninvited, by Daniel Broessler

Abkhazian Foreign Ministry delegation headed by Minister Viacheslav Chirikba on a visit to Italy

‘The Abkhazian authorities attach great importance to the preservation of historical and cultural monuments on the territory of the Republic,’ says Deputy Foreign Minister Irakli Khintba

According to the results of the second round of voting, 20 members of the parliament of Abkhazia were elected

The Abkhaz side has expressed serious concern in connection with the creation of illegal armed formations in Georgia

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Focus


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...

Commentary

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...

Diaspora

Between Russia and the West: Turkey as an Emerging Power and the Case of Abkhazia, by Laurent Vinatier The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly Vol 7, No.4, December 2009 - pp. 73-94.

Publication

Transformation of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: rethinking the paradigm,

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Natella Akaba and Iraklii Khintba

Art

Hibla Gerzmava
Soprano,
was born the 6th of January1970 in Pitsunda, Abkhazia. People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia.

Analysis

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...

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Historical Maps

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 

From The Archives

- Abkhasian Mountaineers - The Graphic (London, England), September 8, 1877

- Travels in Circassia – Part II - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine: July-December, 1856