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Lesson to the West: Abkhazian independence is a fact |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
Inal Khashig, 28 - 08 - 2008
Open Democracy
The editor of an Abkhaz newspaper, Chegemskaya Pravda, argues the West's mistaken adherence to Georgia's claim of ‘territorial integrity' has achieved what it feared. It is time for Washington and Brussels to accept the reality of Abkhazian independence.
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Abkhazia and South Ossetia: heart of conflict, key to solution |
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Politics
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Written by Sausryqua
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
George Hewitt*
The Georgia-Russia war of August 2008 carries a vital lesson: the small territories that broke from Georgia's control in the early 1990s have their own voice, identity, and interest. They must be active participants in deciding their own future, says George Hewitt, the leading scholar of Abkhazian linguistics and history.
(This article was first published on 18 August 2008)
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Elections In Abkhazia-Chad Nagle |
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Politics
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Written by Sausryqua
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Chad Nagle is a lawyer and a representative of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group (www.OSCEwatch.org)
OTR Politics - December, 2004
In the post-Soviet era, four de facto independent states borne through secessionist wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s remain unrecognized by the “international community” (the UN, NATO, et al.) as anything but lawless territories governed by bandits
. Ironically, these states – Transnistria (recognized internationally as part of the ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), Abkhazia, and South Ossetia (Georgia) – are remarkably peaceful and orderly, despite their reputation as “conflict zones.”
This September I decided to visit the last of these unrecognized states I had yet to see, Abkhazia. The primary reason I never made the trip before September was that, as an American, it’s rather difficult to get there. Americans have to travel either by road through Georgia or get the UN to chopper them in. Abkhazia shares a border with Russia, but although the Abkhaz have maintained a consistently pro-Russian orientation in their push for recognition, the Russians have cooperated with the international blockade of Abkhazia, making sure that the border remains closed to foreigners. Moscow has likewise refused to recognize Abkhazia as anything but a “separatist state.”
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Role of Western structures in settlement of Abkhaz conflict |
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Politics
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Written by Sausryqua
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
An overview of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict from the early XX cent. to the present and of international mediation in its settlement.
Sergey M. Shamba, doctor of science in history, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Abkhazia
Materik (CIS Institute)
One of the most important factors that influence the development of political processes in the Caucasus, in particular in Abkhazia is the geographical one. It is on the strength of this circumstance that Abkhazia has for centuries been involved in processes leading to conflicts of many great powers' geopolitical aspirations. Greece, Persia, Rome, Byzantium, Iran, Turkey and Russia were the key players on this arena. While in the XIX cent. it was Turkey and Russia that fought for influence in the area, as soon as in the early XX cent. German and British troops arrived in Abkhazia. After the Russian Empire disintegrated in 1917, both Georgia and Abkhazia embarked on the path of shaping independent states. At the same time, Turkey and Germany stepped up their activity. In the words of General Anton Denikin, "mortal fear of a Turkish invasion" urged the Transcaucasian republics to federate. By that time, Germany had acquired a strategic vision of Georgia.
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Abkhazia, Georgia & the Circassians (N. W. Caucasus) |
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Politics
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Written by Sausryqua
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
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George Hewitt, FBA
(Professor of Caucasian Languages, SOAS, London University)
Demography
Though the data from the last (Soviet) census (1989) in these parts of the Caucasus are already a decade old, they at least provide a basis for discussing ethnic divisions.
1a. Figures for the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (capital = Tbilisi):
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