Abkhazia

Abkhaz animal activists scramble to give street dogs a second chance

April 17, 2019

Stories of animal rights advocates trying to put an end to the tradition of shooting stray dogs in Abkhazia, and overcoming the indifference of the public

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