Overchuk also said efforts are ongoing to reopen transport routes across the Caucasus, including linking Russia and Georgia through Abkhazia.
The Sukhumi (Sukhum) City Court subsequently placed all seven under house arrest for two months.
The practice of issuing Russian ID cards in Abkhazia began only in 2025.
One of the officers involved has already been suspended.
OC Media’s staff members have come together to share their predictions for this coming year.
Venezuela recognised the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2009.
Videos of the confrontation between the Abkhazian opposition figures and the Russian political consultants were spread on social media.
