1992–1993 War in Abkhazia

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Russia demands removal of Shamil Basayev photo from Abkhazian museum

by OC Media

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Abkhazia’s State Museum has closed its modern history wing after the Russian Embassy reportedly demanded the removal of a photo of Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. On Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia told RBK that they had submitted a complaint to Abkhazia about the photo, and that the museum intended to ‘rectify the current situation as soon as possible’. The complaint comes at a low point of relations between Abkhazia and Russia, and follows Russia’s decision to cut fundi

1992–1993 War in Abkhazia

Opinion | Reflections on Abkhazia — the land of my soul

by Guranda Bursulaia

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One thing Georgians and Abkhaz have in common is a national narrative of victimhood, as asymmetric as they are. ‘I am from Georgia and 20% of my country is occupied by Russia’ is a ubiquitous form of the Georgian narrative, but is it useful? I am a Georgian born in Sukhum(i). In the aftermath of the ethnopolitical confrontation between Georgians and Abkhaz, I was one of the 250,000 Georgians forced to flee in September 1993. As a result of my identity as an ethnic Georgian from Abkhazia, I

1992–1993 War in Abkhazia

Abkhazian memorial in Scotland to be ‘reinstalled unchanged’

by OC Media

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A recently-removed memorial to victims of the Georgia–Abkhazia war in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock will be reinstalled unchanged, local authorities in Scotland have told OC Media. They say the memorial will remain this way until ‘a universally acceptable alternative wording and content’ can be agreed by all sides. The memorial, with the inscription ‘in memory of those from our twin town of Sukhumi who died in the Abkhazian/Georgian conflict 1992–1993’, also bearing an Abkhazian flag,