the Abkhazia crisis poses another headache for President Vladimir Putin, whose country has been waging a war against Ukraine for 1,000 days now. The 61-year-old Bzhania, a former chief of the ...
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 ...
Tensions are rising in Abkhazia after the detention of five opposition activists. Following the arrests, people began to gather near the headquarters of the Security Council in Sukhumi where ...
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 ...
Russia recognised Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, as independent states in 2008 after Russian troops repelled a Georgian attempt to retake South Ossetia in a five-day war.