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26 May, 2023
Vitaly Sharia / Ekho Kavkaza — A quarter of a century ago, on May 26, 1998, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Georgia's Independence, Georgian armed forces planned an operation...
25 May, 2023
Vitaly Sharia — Abkhazia commemorates the 70th birthday of the gifted, prematurely departed novelist and poet Daur Zantaria today. On the eve of this posthumous anniversary, a video conference was...
25 May, 2023
In an interview hosted by JAM NEWS, Badri Belkaniya and conflictologist Paata Zakareishvili present an exhaustive account of the Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations. This dialogue encompasses crucial elements of the prolonged process...
24 May, 2023
We mourn the loss of a diligent scholar, a passionate reformer, and a tireless advocate for truth and understanding, Dr. Stephen D. Shenfield. We recently learned of the unfortunate loss of...
24 May, 2023
Gazete Duvar — There exist individuals who have devoted their entire lives to the Circassian cause, yet they've never set foot in the Caucasus. What does this convey? It appears...
23 May, 2023
Central Asian Survey Volume 4, 1985 - Issue 4: Focus on the Caucasus. pp.51-68. ABKHAZIA AND THE ABKHAZ Abkhazia, an area located in the northwestern part of what is now Soviet Georgia...
04 June, 2022
The Rise and Fall and Revival of the Ibero-Caucasian HypothesisHistoriographia Linguistica Vol. 35:1/2 (2008), pp. 23–82 Kevin Tuite Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal 8. The Ibero-Caucasian hypothesis and the historiography of Abkhazia (pp.53-65)8.1 P’avle Ingoroq’va, Giorgi Merčule, and the...
24 February, 2022
In 1989 at the start of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict the late Academician Andrei Sakharov in one of his last articles called Georgia a ‘mini-empire’ (Ogonёk 1989, 31). Later, describing the relationship between Abkhazia and Georgia, he wrote: "I tend to justify...
26 April, 2020
Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology, edited by Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett Cambridge University Press 1995 Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus (Part III Eastern Europe and Eurasia) pp. 149-174 By Philip L. Kohl and Gocha R...
21 October, 2008
Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership History and Documents Central Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267–323, 1993 by George B. Hewitt The Abkhazians living in Turkey have preserved very well the customs, language and dances carried there from Abkhazia by their ...
23 May, 2020
In June 1861, on the initiative of the Ubykhs, a 'mejlis' (parliament) was constituted not far from Sochi; it was known as 'The Great and Free Assembly'. The Ubykhs, the Circassian Shapsughs and Abadzekhs/Abzakhs, and the Abkhazian tribes of Ahchypsy...
28 February, 2020
Everyone who is somehow familiar with the history of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia could not help but hear about the Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, which was soon renamed the Confederation. This is no...
14 February, 2020
After most of Abkhazia’s indigenous Abkhazians were expelled to Ottoman lands firstly at the end of the Russian-Caucasian War (1864) and then following the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), their vacated lands immediately started to attract colonisation from such diverse incomers as:...
14 March, 2013
Reflections on Abkhazia: [14 August] 1992-2012 Immediately after the Caucasian War (21 May 1864), in June 1864 the independent princedom of Abkhazia was abolished, and the sovereign prince Mikhail Shervashidze (Chachba) was subjected to political repression; in 1866, he died in...
25 March, 2021
Joseph de Baye (1853-1931), French archaeologist and traveller. Baron Joseph de Baye (French) was initially a keen amateur archaeologist. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ministry of Public Instruction sent him on a mission to collect pottery in...
20 July, 2020
How Easily One Forgets... Contrast the following with the widely held misconception that Abkhazia's problem with Georgia resulted from its being a mere puppet of the Kremlin's 'anti-Georgian' politics? Most of the 1990s, especially when Shevardnadze-protegé Andrei Kozyrev served as Boris...
28 April, 2020
Yuri Magomedovich Shanibov lived a rich (Soviet) biography that fully reflected the changing historical epochs. Back in 1997 the world-famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu felt so intrigued by the photo of the distinguished-looking Shanibov, always in his Caucasian sheepskin papakha hat —...
04 February, 2018
The secrets of the ancient method of preparing the Abkhazian national seasoning known as ajika [adjika or adzhika; Abkhaz: аџьыка] and the transformation of hot pepper and spices on stone into a unique, fragrant and piquant ‘masterpiece’ were revealed to a correspondent...
