Abkhazia
Sukhumi Airport cuts winter flights, apparently due to lack of demand
The airport will have only one bi-weekly flight to Moscow until a yet undisclosed date.
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Abkhazia detains person accused of plotting Ukrainian attack on Sukhumi Airport
The suspect was announced to have been an employee of a construction company carrying out repairs at the recently reopened airport.
Abkhazia
Sukhumi’s airport becomes operational for the first time in 33 years
The inaugural flight arrived from Moscow with much fanfare.
Abkhazia
Abkhazia to reopen airport in May
The Russian president’s first deputy chief of staff said that test flights to and from the airport should begin in February.
Abkhazia
Son of Russian security official revealed as Sukhumi Airport investor
The mystery Russian investor behind the restoration of the Sukhumi (Sukhum) airport has been revealed as the son of Rashid Nurgaliyev — Russia’s former interior minister and current First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council. On Friday, Abkhazia’s Economy Ministry and Russia’s Economic Development Ministry announced that Infrastructural Development, a recently established company based in Moscow, had won the controversial tender. The company is owned by Nurgaliyev’s son — also name
Abkhazia
Abkhazia approves private Russian investor to fund reconstruction of Sukhumi airport
Abkhazian MPs have voted to ratify an agreement between Russia and Abkhazia allowing a private Russian investor to fund the reconstruction of the Sukhumi (Sukhum) international airport. The agreement was signed by Abkhazia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Kristina Ozgan, and the Head of Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum in June. The agreement was developed by the Russian ministry with the aim of resuming air tra
