After the conflict had been smouldering for many years, it flared up again in August this year in a border dispute between Abkhazia and Georgia over the Kodori Gorge. |
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In the conflict that is taking place in Abkhazia and Ossetia the rights of a Russian minority are not at issue. |
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It stopped being a hospital and was occupied by internally displaced persons from the war in Abkhazia. |
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There continue to be reports of armed groups from Georgia laying antipersonnel mines in the Abkhazia region. |
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Besides English, the Sputnik News website now has local-language versions for Abkhazia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, China, Germany, Spain, and Turkey. |
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In practice, this means that Russia will not allow Georgia back into Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
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We should work to secure a full and effective United Nations and OSCE presence in Georgia, including in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
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The Sukhumi separatist regime continues a spiral of gross and mass violation of human rights on the territory of Abkhazia, Georgia. |
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It had since been shown that Abkhazia was to share the fate of South Ossetia. |
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He makes no difference between Montenegro and Kosovo on one side, and South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other side. |
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We call on Russia to use its influence over those in Abkhazia who are intent on broadening the conflict. |
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In Abkhazia, ¤10 million of Community assistance has been provided for rehabilitation of the Enguri hydro-power complex. |
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Also reported by UNOMIG for Abkhazia, Georgia, and by UNMIBH for Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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Near its grounds, private gardens hang thick with bright orange tangerines and plump persimmons, the fruits of fall in Abkhazia. |
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The studio is a part of the Sukhum School of Arts, located in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia. |
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Georgia lost the war in 2008 and Russia still occupies Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
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To this day, Russian troops occupy the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which have declared independence. |
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Abkhazian is, along with Georgian, the state language in Abkhazia. |
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From here, by arrangement with the Georgian government, Gelayev's fighters set out to assist in reconquering Abkhazia and to open up a second front against Russia. |
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It needs to be noted that Poti is located approximately 30 kilometres from the conflict zone of Abkhazia and approximately 160 kilometres from the conflict zone of the Tskhinvali region. |
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Abkhazia is a republic which confers on its President extensive powers. |
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The Russians planned to hold the line of the Ingur River which separates Abkhazia from Georgia proper. |
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One of the ways it does this is by improving the lives and free movement of people on both sides of the Administrative Boundary Line separating the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia. |
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Its attempts are being hindered by the problem of the breakaway of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the wave of refugees mainly taken in by Abkhazia. |
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Internal passports can also be used to travel to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
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At its meeting on 13 October, the General Affairs and External Relations Council noted with satisfaction the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from the zones adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. |
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However, due to the gravity and instability of the security situation in Abkhazia, it would be appropriate for us to respect both the letter and the spirit of that provision. |
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They are the new generation, who only know a peaceful Abkhazia. |
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The Republic of Abkhazia is recognized as being an independent and sovereign state by a handful of states. |
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The Head of the FDFA travelled to Georgia in January with the aim of supporting the efforts of the Commissioner on Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and of obtaining better access to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. |
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There have been three such situations within the Russian sphere of influence over the last several years, not only in Ukraine but also in the separate province of Abkhazia and thirdly in the state of Belarus. |
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AaGeorgia has stepped up efforts to isolate Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, since a five-day war with Russia last August. |
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We believe that Europe can play a major role in internationalizing peacekeeping forces in conflict zones such as Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. |
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At the time, its purpose was to induce Abkhazia to take a more flexible position, primarily on the issue of the return of refugees and temporarily displaced persons. |
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Outside of Abkhazia, votes in this election were also cast in Moldavia, Cherkessk and ystanbul. |
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Also reported by UNOMIG for Abkhazia, Georgia. |
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In the Gali district of Abkhazia, cut off from the rest of Georgia, more than 40,000 ethnic Georgians were being threatened with expulsion if they did not accept Russian passports. |
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Mr Hancock observed that both South Ossetia and Abkhazia had experienced very similar situations in 2008 and asked how close the two regions were and whether their future was co-dependent. |
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For example in Baboushera in the region of Abkhazia, 32 to 33 of the victims who died in an air crash have yet to be returned, this notwithstanding that 59 of the victims have already been returned. |
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You have achieved a great deal over the years that have passed since then, but the conflicts in the break-away regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have become worse. |
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I call on the countries that supported the carve-up of Serbia to withdraw their recognition of Kosovo, and on Russia to withdraw its recognition of Ossetia and Abkhazia. |
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Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia in contravention of its own commitments and obligations could portend further disregard of this institution and its undertakings by one of its permanent members. |
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The Russians then accused the Georgians of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and moved in paratroops and artillery, claiming they were part of a peacekeeping operation. |
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These troops pillaged Abkhazia, defeating the ill-armed Abkhaz. |
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On September 27, 2006, the Georgian authorities proceeded to install the provisional administration of Abkhazia there under the authority of the president of the Abkhaz government council in exile, Malchaz Akishbaia. |
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In March, a mysterious raid by nightflying attack helicopters rocketed public buildings in villages in the Kodori Gorge, a region of the breakaway region of Abkhazia where Georgia has reestablished its rule. |
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The condemnation of the breakaway move by South Ossetia and Abkhazia is laughable hypocrisy, to say the least, in the light of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the recent EU decision on Kosovo. |
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It wishes all the more to break with Russia given that ever since it ceased being Soviet, the Kremlin is set on destabilising it by supporting the separatism of two of its regions, Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia. |
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Russia has recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, aware of its responsibility for ensuring the survival of their brotherly peoples in the face of the aggressive and chauvinistic policy of Tbilisi. |
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The truth, dear colleagues, is that some of us who now fearfully condemn Russia for the recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have contributed enormously to this development. |
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These accords foresaw the signing of a treaty which would commit the signatories to a path of prohibiting recourse to force to resolve the question of the status of Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia. |
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Other unrecognized regions which claim independence include Abkhazia, Transnistria, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Nagorno Karabakh, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. |
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The Company and its subsidiaries have all the required licenses and operate in all the Russian regions and the Republic of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Tajikistan. |
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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. |
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