events in Abkhazia

With no 'real' president, dispute erupts over new prosecutor in Abkhazia

Abkhazia

November 26, 2024

The opposition believes that the appointment of a new prosecutor general should be postponed.

Abkhazia urged to implement urgent reforms ahead of presidential election

Abkhazia

November 22, 2024

Prominent groups in Abkhazia are calling for urgent constitutional and legislative reforms ahead of the presidential election scheduled for February 2025.

Opinion: In Abkhazia, reform constitution before electing new president

Abkhazia

November 21, 2024

"The current Constitution is driving us toward civil war," Tengiz Dzopua, a member of the Public Chamber, warns.

Op-ed: Another coup, another president ousted – how can Abkhazia break the cycle?

Abkhazia

November 19, 2024

JAMnews Abkhazia editor Inal Khashig believes the problem isn’t with individual presidents but with the unchecked powers of the office

Opposition grows in Abkhazia to Russian-Abkhaz investment deal

Abkhazia-Russia

November 14, 2024

Opposition grows in Abkhazia against a Russian investment agreement, with critics warning it threatens local business and national security.

Protests in Abkhazia: Opposition blocks strategic bridges in response to arrests of its members

Abkhazia

November 12, 2024

Large-scale protests erupt in Abkhazia following arrests of opposition figures, opposed to Russian investment agreement

Abkhazia: Monument defaced, president accused of treason in nighttime vandalism act

Abkhazia

November 06, 2024

An unknown vandal defaces a monument in Sukhum, paints accusations of treason against President Aslan Bzhania, sparking government claims of opposition involvement.

Why Abkhazia has become a 'cryptocurrency paradise'

Abkhazia

March 15, 2021

Report of “Novaya Gazeta” from Abkhazia, where the energy crisis, which has arisen due to the massive mining of cryptocurrency, has not yet been overcome

'Abkhazia is not a black hole' – how a former diplomat got theatre back on its feet

Abkhazia

March 01, 2021

Irakli Khintba on why he decided to take up culture and how diplomatic skills can help in art

How to live when the power’s out. Stories from Abkhazia

Abkhazia

December 01, 2020

Boiling water in a thermos, a disconnected incubator on a farm, gatherings in the courtyard - how the so-called Abkhazians affected the inhabitants of Abkhazia. rolling blackouts

Abkhaz doctors to get pay rise ‘by request of COVID patients’

Coronavirus

October 26, 2020

Abkhaz Diaspora in Moscow allocates money to a pay rise for Abkhaz doctors

Former Abkhaz VP: ‘Abkhazia must join Union State of Russia and Belarus’

Abkhazia

October 23, 2020

Abkhaz politician believes that it is the only way "to save the Abkhaz state from destruction"

'It’s so good we brought the roller skates' - fleeing war-torn Eastern Ukraine to Abkhazia

Abkhazia

October 19, 2020

At the height of the war in eastern Ukraine, more than 200 families from Luhansk and Donetsk found shelter in Abkhazia.

Protests in Abkhazia demand adoption of anti-corruption law

March 12, 2020

Six activists continue their hunger strike, around 400 people have come to support them, and they promise not to leave until the law is passed in parliament

Puppy diplomacy, Coronavirus spreads, elections settled – “Week in the Caucasus” from JAMnews

March 07, 2020

The week of 2-7 March 2020 in just 90 seconds

Abkhazia’s only psychiatric hospital has nothing to treat or feed patients

February 17, 2020

Doctors are asking relatives of patients to have them taken home, and the Ombudswoman has appealed to the Prosecutor General to look into claims of underfunding

Electoral fraud, opposition leader arrested, army deaths - ‘Week in the Caucasus’ from JAMnews

February 15, 2020

The week of 10-15 February 2020 in just 90 seconds

Ex-head of Sberbank Abkhazia detained after two-year search

February 14, 2020

Timur Bganba stands accused of fraud concerning a loan of almost 2 million USD

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