Raul Khajimba, leader of the self-proclaimed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, has resigned following four days of protests in the regional capital, Sukhumi. Former Abkhaz Prime Minister Sergei ...

Lela Avidzba reads the poem "The Knight In The Panther's Skin" by Shota Rustaveli (in the original Georgian, Russian, and Abkhaz). TBILISI -- Lela Avidzba is a rarity -- an Abkhaz who is fluent in the ...

Kremlin-backed Abkhaz leader Aslan Bzhania held a series of meetings on December 11-18 with Russian authorities during his Moscow trip, focused on the implementation of ‘Common Social-Economic Space,’ ...

New Abkhaz “national assembly” that held its inaugural session today has elected 32-year-old Lasha Ashuba as its new speaker. 33 deputies unanimously backed Ashuba, the sole candidate for the post.

The authorities promised to withdraw the scandalous draft law on the agreement with Russia. In the capital of Abkhazia, Sukhumi, protests against the ratification of the investment agreement with ...

Russia plans to establish a Black Sea naval base at the Abkhaz port of Ochamchire. Ochamchire is some 60 kilometers southeast of the Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi, near the cease-fire line with Georgia.

Young people in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia tell Matthew Collin that their future is getting brighter, after Russia recognised the region as an independent state. The bridge over the ...

Make space on the bookshelves and coffee tables. The world’s first Abkhaz-Ossetian dictionary is almost here. The South Caucasus’ two tiny, breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, may already ...

(Updates with start of operation, adds context, changes dateline from Tbilisi) By Ilya Kachayev SUKHUMI, Georgia, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Abkhazia said on Saturday it has launched an operation to drive ...