Abkhazia

Abkhazia introduces death penalty for drug dealing

April 10, 2019

A moratorium was placed on the death penalty back in 1993

Abkhazia announces date of presidential elections

April 05, 2019

The presidential elections will take place on 21 July 2019

Abkhazia car bomb leaves doctor seriously injured, motive unknown

April 03, 2019

While the ambulance was on its way, the doctor, whose leg was taken off in the explosion, gave herself first aid

Op-ed: why no new Abkhaz president will be able to change anything for the better

April 03, 2019

It’s the same old game: candidates’ ‘loyal supporters’ are simply creditors ‘investing’ in the presidential elections as one would in a very profitable business

Abkhazia: hopes waver for the appearance of a third political force

March 24, 2019

Abkhazia’s respected Archimandrite Dorofey, who was expected to be put forward as a presidential candidate, will not run

Abkhazia's pelmeni saga

Abkhazia

March 23, 2019

There are no food testing laboratories in Abkhazia, so customers have to judge the quality of food products ‘by eye’

An Abkhazia without thieves-in-law?

March 18, 2019

The Abkhaz parliament has been presented with a bill criminalizing affiliations with crime groups

Abkhazia moving towards resolution of garbage issue

March 16, 2019

A landfill has been designated where household garbage will be brought from all over Abkhazia, while the remaining landfills will be closed and their use prohibited

Young Georgian commits suicide in Abkhazia, Tbilisi demands investigation

March 13, 2019

"It's very important to establish the objective circumstances of this gravest incident," - Ketevan Tsihelashvili, the State Minister for Conciliation and Civil Equality, said at an emergency briefing in Tbilisi

Has Abkhazia’s war on corruption finally taken off?

March 07, 2019

Who’s pressuring the Abkhaz parliament to tackle the criminal liability of corrupt officials and how

Beria – Stalin's right-hand man in Abkhazia

Joseph Stalin

March 05, 2019

On the ferocity and violence of Stalin’s righthand man, Lavrentiy Beria. Photos and stories from Abkhazia

Abkhazia: life without electricity

Georgian-Abkhaz conflict

February 26, 2019

How can Abkhazia’s electric energy crisis be solved and its only hydroelectric energy station be saved?

Former Abkhaz president Ankvab accused of corruption deal in oil contracts

February 22, 2019

The players involved: Russian Rosneft and Abkhaz ‘Apsny-Oil’, which signed a deal for hydrocarbon exploration in Abkhazia

Alcohol, speeding and corruption – Abkhazia’s terrifying road safety statistics

Abkhazia

February 20, 2019

Who’s at fault and what’s to be done – what drivers and officials say

Outbreak of swine flu in Abkhazia

February 18, 2019

The public is frightened, but officials say the situation is under control

Popular home-made fishing boat again leads to tragedy in Abkhazia

February 12, 2019

A man drowned after trying to rescue two fishermen .

Georgia and Russia to begin monitoring freight via Abkhazia and South Ossetia

February 08, 2019

The meetings will continue until the final implementation of the agreement

Abkhazia reopens crossing point to Zugdidi region of Georgia via Ingur bridge

February 07, 2019

The reopening of the border comes as a relief to many in Abkhazia who have businesses on one or both sides and whose children go to school across the bridge

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