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Written by Sausryqua
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Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
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Official Language:Abkhaz
Political status:Independent
Capital: Aqwa (Sukhum)
Capital's coordinates: 43°01'N 41°02'E
President: Sergei Bagapsh
Prime Minister: Alexander Ankvab
The Chairman of Parliament: Nugzar Ashuba
Independence:
– Declared:23 July 1992 From Georgia
– First recognition: 26 August 2008 by RF
Area
– Total:8,600 km²
– % water:Negligible
Population
- Total (2000 est.):250,000
- Density:29/km²
Currency: Ruble
Time zone: UTC +3
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 September 2009 )
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Written by Sausryqua
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
George Hewitt (Professor of Caucasian Languages, SOAS, London University)
It has come to my attention that the web-page below:
http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/abkhazia/abkh_quest_answ.htm
contains the sort of unacceptable anti-Abkhazian propaganda that has become all too typical of Georgian (or pro-Georgian) sources over the last couple of decades. The person behind the page(s), Andreas Andersen, presents his readers with 9 questions on the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, to which he offers his own answers. I recapitulate below those questions and answers (with slight correction to the author’s English) and append my own responses, from which exercise I hope objective readers will draw their own conclusions.
George Hewitt (Professor of Caucasian Languages, SOAS, London University)
Abkhazian Conflict: Nine Questions and answers
1. Is Abkhazia an inalienable part of Georgia or is it a separate country that was artificially put under Georgian jurisdiction?
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 )
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
Campaign “Sorry”/ “Hatamzait”
March 14, 2007, Tbilisi
We, representatives of the Georgian Society, consider it is necessary to make this appeal and launch a campaign to bring back the trust between Georgian and Abkhazian people to life.
Today, when fifteen years have passed since the tragic war, it is easier to evaluate the events that resulted into the separation of the two peoples. It is high time to give proper names to everything that happened.
Several years ago, a part of the society tried to resist the escalation of the war. Series of arbitrary detentions resulted from the announcements against the provocative war. Public has not information about those detentions yet. Many of us were children at that time and the reasons that resulted into a war are still obscure for us. Time passes by, however the pain still remains in our hearts, the wounds are still bleeding. The questions are not answered yet. The future is still vague.
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Written by Sausryqua
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
06/04/2007 18:40 ABKHAZIA, SUKHUM
The Caucasian Forum circulated an address to the Abkhaz authorities, which called on them to intensify the process of acquiring citizenship of Abkhazia in Turkey, where half-million Abkhaz Diaspora lives.
With this request the Diaspora will appeal to the President Sergei Bagapsh during his visit to Turkey, to be held from April 21-25.
"At a time when contacts between the Diaspora and the Caucasus are becoming increasingly active, when economic and cultural cooperation is established, the issue of independence of Abkhazia takes particular value for us", notes the statement.
Note that previously the Parliament of Abkhazia adopted a law on citizenship. All ethnic Abkhaz and Abaza, wherever they may live, are citizens of Abkhazia.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 April 2007 )
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
From the testimony of Khartchilava E.P., born in 1960, inhabitant of Tkuarchal, Kutaise St. 37 My mother Shurdulava K.A. lives in the village of Kindgi. She is 78. In September 1992 she was at home. Eight Georgian guardsmen surrounded her house one day and tried to get into it through the window. My mother-in-law opened the door and let them in. They searched the house, took everything they liked in it, killed a bull and took a goat for their chief. Then they started torturing the old woman: they beat her, hit her with a gun, fired near her and made her run to and fro. She was saved by a mirage: she crawled to the forest. The Abkhaz guerillas took her to Tkuarchal. The Georgian guardsmen burnt down her house and took away the cattle. They killed her nephew and threw him in the forest. The neighbors found the dead body only in 28 days and buried it.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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Written by Sausryqua
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Tuesday, 26 December 2006 |
Between the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, in the early 1st millenium BC, two similar cultures, Koban and Colchaian, arose in the Caucasus. Remarkable bronzesmiths produced a range of objects which are now well represented in the Hermitage. This large collection of bronzes shows just how magnificently metalwork flourished in the Caucasus during the Prehistoric era.
The nucleus of the Koban collection is formed of articles discovered in 1869 in a burial mound in Northern Ossetia, in the aul or village of Koban. These include battle-axes, daggers, decorative items and other objects, astonishing in the diversity of their shapes, their faultless workmanship, elegant contours and remarkable sculptural qualities. Later, further sites were uncovered in the central Caucasus which provided more evidence of what is now referred to as the Koban Culture. Koban articles are diverse, but the most typical are bronze items of the 11th to 4th centuries BC.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 February 2007 )
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