cross-referenced news and research resources about
Abkhazia (Abkhaziya) cities, towns and villages
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Messenger.ge
April 26, 2018
Mestumrishvili was detained on Friday in the village of Jariasheni, in Gori municipality, near the occupation line. ... Georgian citizens were illegally detained by Russia-controlled border guards last year at Tskhinvali occupation line and 52 others at the Georgia-occupied Abkhazia so-called boundary line.
Democracy & Freedom Watch
April 17, 2018
The school closures are being considered as part of an 'optimization' plan for the public schools in Abkhazia. Officially, no decision has been made yet, but in light of the closure of Tagiloni school at the end of last year, locals fear the worst. “This means that Gali villages will face depopulation,” a schoolÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
April 7, 2018
This applies first and foremost to the village of Rukhi in the Zugdidi region which is near the administrative boundary line with Abkhazia. ... The neutral branding of products made in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which will only be labeled according to the city in which they were produced and the address ofÃâà...
OC Media (blog)
April 4, 2018
Under the plan, residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be able to transport locally produced goods to Georgian-controlled territories, with 'status-neutral labelling'. 'It may be sufficient to include only the name of the producer, the name of the city/settlement (e.g. Sukhumi, Gagra, etc.) and/or addressÃâà...
OC Media (blog)
April 3, 2018
Last year, the removal of a memorial in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock to those from Sukhumi who perished in the Georgia–Abkhazia war sparking outrage in Abkhazia. The memorial was removed at the request of the Georgian ambassador to the UK. East Ayrshire Council, of which Kilmarnock is a part,Ãâà...
OC Media (blog)
April 2, 2018
Abkhazian authorities have announced they are introducing 'temporary restrictions on the import of agricultural products from Georgia into Abkhazia'. ... the stink bug was first detected in the region in the Russian city of Sochi, near Abkhazia's western border, no later than 2013, and 'thereafter it spread toÃâà...
Democracy & Freedom Watch
April 1, 2018
ZUGDIDI, DFWatch–A five hectare shopping mall in Rukhi, only meters from the administrative border line (ABL) with breakaway Abkhazia, is doing good ... For instance, electronic equipment is relatively expensive, while chandeliers and electric wire is cheaper,” a 35 year old resident of the villageÃâà...
OC Media (blog)
March 29, 2018
A quarter of a century after the Abkhazian–Georgian war, the bodies of those killed are still being recovered. In the centre of Sukhum/i, ... made the first move. We worked on this issue for many years, going around to villages, removing black headscarves from women and replacing them with colourful ones.'Ãâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 29, 2018
And that refusal angered relatives and the populations of villages located near the “border” with South Ossetia. Indeed, in late February, ... But now, Russia has apparently convinced Georgia to sign a “peace declaration” together with representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Kommersant, March 20).
Architectural Digest
March 23, 2018
That was until the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict (which was an ethnic fight between the people of Abkhazia and Georgians that began in 1989). Since the war, the population has decreased to roughly 200 people who live in what is now considered a ghost town. Many of the cities look similar to PolyanaÃâà...
Georgia Today
March 22, 2018
According to the resolution, the Government of Georgia should submit to Parliament the Otkhozoria-Tatunashvili List, which will include Russian, de facto Abkhazian and Ossetian authorities, and individuals that participated in the kidnapping, torturing and murder of the two Georgian citizens. The list shouldÃâà...
OC Media (blog)
March 22, 2018
Georgia's parliament has adopted a resolution calling for those committing human rights violations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be punished. The resolution ... Otkhozoria, 32, was murdered in May 2016 at a checkpoint near the village of Khurcha by an Abkhazian border guard. Georgia has called forÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 20, 2018
As I note in today's Daily Vertical, in conjunction with Russia's military exercises in occupied Crimea, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, it appears to ... A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has sentenced a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir organization to eight years in prison on extremism charges.
Georgia Today
March 9, 2018
On March 7, Tbilisi City Council building hosted an extraordinary exhibition of a 23-year-old artist from Abkhazia. The exhibition of the young Georgian artist was carried out by the Georgian Foundation, founded by Ioane Bagration-Mukhrani Prince of Georgia and his wife Kristine. The exposition displayedÃâà...
Georgia Today
March 8, 2018
On March 7, Tbilisi City Council building hosted an extraordinary exhibition of a 23-year-old artist from Abkhazia. The exhibition of the young Georgian artist was carried out by the Georgian Foundation, founded by Ioane Bagration-Mukhrani Prince of Georgia and his wife Kristine. The exposition displayedÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
March 7, 2018
Mikhail Panov, a Russian citizen, claims that he opened the SPS-Kavkaz plastic products factory in Lykhny village in the Gudauta region of Abkhazia in the summer of 2016. He says that his problems began almost immediately. Panov recorded a video message in which he describes the event and namesÃâà...
OC Media (blog)
March 7, 2018
The eighty-year-old refugee from the village of Tamysh, in the Ochamchira District, died last winter, alone, in a small room in one of the abandoned buildings of a former college, ... In Akhalkalaki municipality, there are refugees living in Akhalkalaki and in the villages of Bavra, Chunchcha, Okami, Kulik.
JAMnews (blog)
March 4, 2018
The problem of homeless dogs in Abkhazia is a significant one – one that's being solved in a very simple manner: dogs are killed. They are being shot in the regions surrounding Sukhumi with guns, while in Sukhumi itself they are being euthanized via a deadly dart fired from an air gun. This, localÃâà...
Democracy & Freedom Watch
February 25, 2018
How can a pensioner earn such an amount?” a resident of the village Tagiloni told DFWatch. Adolescents over the age of 14 are have to get a residency permit. Locals fear that these demands sound like something of an ultimatum. Sokhumi separatist authorities started issuing Abkhaz passports using theÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
February 25, 2018
“We never liked the fact that the munitions depot was located in the village. I was always kind of expecting or waiting for it explode,” says Meri, a resident of Primorskoe village. A munitions warehouse exploded eight months ago in August 2017. Three people lost their lives and 64 were wounded. TwelveÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
February 21, 2018
One may think that there are no problems in the Georgian-Russian relations, but the sides have just agreed not to put the issues of Abkhazia and South ... it is Kazbegi region on the border with the Russian Federation, the area in the south of Inguri River – borders with Abkhazia and outskirts of Gori townÃâà...
Civil Georgia
February 20, 2018
Georgia in the DNI report - There is a voters club for Putin's election in Abkhazia - Bibilov visits Russian MIA - Transnistria delegation in Abkhazia - Search for ... Russia's Network – Russian military base “a city within a city”: Chief of staff of the Russian 4th military base stationed in Tskhinvali Region/SouthÃâà...
Civil Georgia
February 14, 2018
1 644 Abkhaz, S.Ossetians treated in Georgian hospitals - Putin signs Tskhinvali military agreement - Additional electoral precincts for Putin's election in ... Russia's Network – Tskhinvali-Vladivostok relations: Tskhinvali “foreign minister” Dmitry Medoev visited the city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far EastÃâà...
Daily Sabah
February 11, 2018
Denys, a social sciences researcher and audiovisual producer from France, and Daoud, an Afghani-Swiss photographer and filmmaker, received an unexpected and intriguing open call to enter the inaugural artist residency program at SKLAD Cultural Institute in the Abkhazian capital city of Sukhum on theÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
February 10, 2018
They forced Petrosyan and his companion into their car and took him to the village of Tsagera, where almost no one has lived since the end of the Abkhaz-Georgian war in the 1990s. There, they dropped off Petrosyan's companion, who turned out to be the director of the Ochamchire asphalt factory, andÃâà...
EurasiaNet
February 5, 2018
Two kilometers from the border crossing into breakaway Abkhazia, the village of Rukhi seems like an unusual place to build a cutting-edge hospital. But for Tbilisi, humanitarian ... “For years, Abkhazians have gone to [Georgian cities] for healthcare, but this is more convenient.” Construction on the hospitalÃâà...
Democracy & Freedom Watch
February 4, 2018
TBILISI, DFWatch–A World War II memorial in Abkhazia has been found to bear an inscription in the Georgian language; a rarity after a recent wave of cultural cleansing. DFWatch's reporter unexpectedly stumbled upon the memorial stone in Merkheuli, a village in the south of Abkhazia. It is dedicated toÃâà...
Carnegie Europe
October 30, 2017
We don't need them. We have survived 25 years without them.” A quarter of a century after the war, the capital of Abkhazia—the city the Abkhaz generally call “Sukhum” and the Georgians prefer to be called “Sukhumi”—finally looks like a normal town in the Caucasus, with bustling shops and traffic jams.
OC Media (blog)
December 31, 1999
Russia has dropped a 'temporary embargo' on Abkhazian agricultural goods, just a week after it was announced. ... of Sciences, the stink bug was first detected in the region in the Russian city of Sochi, near Abkhazia's western border, no later than 2013, and 'thereafter it spread to Abkhazia and Georgia'.
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