Abkhazia
Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’
Thomas de Waal, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and a prolific writer on the South Caucasus recently sat down with OC Media. He discussed democracy in Abkhazia and the international community’s role there, and the recent thaw in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Of Abkhazia, de Waal said it previously had ‘some quite democratic culture’, but that this had become more ‘problematic’ in recent years. He also pointed to a democratic deficit in the way non–ethnic Abkhaz people were t
