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Interview | ‘My reconciliation policy is not about just getting territories back. It’s about people’

20 August 2018 by OC Media

Ketevan Tsikhe­lashvili serves as Georgia’s Minister for Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and Civic Equality (smr.gov.ge)

Ketevan Tsikhe­lashvili has served as Georgia’s State Minister for Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and Civic Equality, respon­si­ble for coor­di­nat­ing the country’s conflict res­o­lu­tion policy, since 2016. Tsikhe­lashvili sat down with OC Media to discuss the ministry’s successes and failures, her new peace ini­tia­tive, and the barriers to and prospects for peace.

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Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: abkhaz, abkhazia, abkhazians, archil tatunashvili, ergneti, gal district, gali district, geneva discussions, geneva talks, georgia, georgiansa, ketevan tsikhelashvili, keti tsikhelashvili, minister for Reconciliation, ministry for reconciliation, ossetians, peace, peace policy, russia, samachablo, sokhumi, south ossetia, sukhum, sukhumi, tskhinval, tskhinvali, tskhinvali region

Georgian National Film Centre slams Abkhazia international film festival

3 April 2018 by OC Media

Sukhumi’s State Russian Drama Theatre (siff-abkh.tv)

The state-owned Georgian National Film Centre (GNFC) has condemned the holding of the Sukhum Inter­na­tion­al Film Festival in Abkhazia. They say the festival rep­re­sents ‘soft power deployed by Russia’s occu­pa­tion regime’.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, film festival, georgia, occupation, russia, sokhumi, sukhum, sukhumi

Voice from Abkhazia | ‘The war robbed me of everything’

13 November 2017 by Stella Adleyba

Stella Adleyba (/OC Media)

Stella Adleyba, 26, OC Media’s correspondent in Abkhazia.

‘When the war in Abkhazia began, I was only a year old. My Dad went to the front in the first days of the war, so we were left alone: ​​my mother, my brother, and me. Of course, I don’t remember what happened in those days, but all of my life I have listened to the stories of my mother and brother about what we went through back then.’

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Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: abkhazia, georgia, sokhumi, sukhum, sukhumi, war

Hunger striking Circassian leader suffers stroke

4 October 2017 by OC Media

Ruslan Gvashev (Facebook)

A 67-year-old Cir­cass­ian activist on hunger strike in Krasnodar Krai has suffered a stroke. Ruslan Gvashev has been protest­ing for 24 days after being fined for per­form­ing a public prayer at a sacred tulip tree in the village of Golovinka, near Sochi. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, circassia, circassians, golovinka, krasndoar krai, protest, rally, shapsugs, sochi, sokhumi, sukhum, sukhumi, tulip tree

Rally in Sukhumi for hunger striking Circassian leader

27 September 2017 by OC Media

Ruslan Gvashev holding an Abkhazian flag (David Dasaniya/ Facebook)

A rally in sol­i­dar­i­ty with a 67-year-old Cir­cass­ian activist was held in Sukhumi (Sukhum) on 27 September. The former Shapsug leader has been on hunger strike in Krasnodar Krai for more than two weeks.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, circassia, circassians, golovinka, krasndoar krai, protest, rally, shapsugs, sochi, sokhumi, sukhum, sukhumi, tulip tree

Georgia blocks agreement between Abkhazian and Italian towns

5 May 2017 by OC Media

Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Italian Con­fed­er­a­tion of Agri­cul­ture with the Abkhazian del­e­ga­tion (Facebook)

An agreement signed between Sukhumi (Sukhum) and Santa Maria Del Cedro in Italy in early May will soon be annulled, Georgia’s ambas­sador to Italy claims.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, embargo, investment, italy, sukhum, sukhumi, trade

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In pictures |  Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless

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There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets.

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Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

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Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

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In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature.

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