Abkhazia is marking the 20th anniversary of the Georgian-Abkhaz war. Georgian forces entered Abkhazia on August 14, 1992. This is the Day of Remembrance of Fatherland Defenders in Abkhazia now.

Most of Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in fighting that ended in 1993, and Georgia lost control of the rest of the territory in a short war with Russia in 2008. Russia recognizes Abkhazia as an ...

The Georgian statelet's political crisis highlights a fragile balance between local identity and Russian influence ...

The separatist leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the ...

The director of the national gallery, Suram Sakanya, said the collection had survived Abkhazia's civil war with Georgia in the 1990s and was an irreparable loss for Abkhaz culture. "We have been ...

A memorial to the 1992-93 war: Major Russian TV channels are relayed into Abkhazia The breakaway region of Abkhazia is fully outside Georgia's media environment. The pro-Kremlin press is popular ...

Most of Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in fighting that ended in 1993, and Georgia lost control of the rest of the territory in a short war with Russia in 2008. Russia recognizes Abkhazia as an ...

Abkhazia's president resigned on Tuesday after reaching an agreement with demonstrators who stormed parliament last week over ...

The bill, which would have legalised Russian investment and land ownership, has been withdrawn. Abkhazia declared its ...