EKA TKESHELASHVILI served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia during Mikheil Saakashvili’s ...

In August 2008, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Georgia, marking Europe’s first war of the 21st century. Triggered by tensions over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the war saw Russian ...

Russia-occupied Abkhazia’s de facto parliament has adopted legislation restricting inheritance rights for individuals it ...

SUKHUMI, Georgia, Sept. 30 -- Fifteen years ago this week, flames shot out the windows of the parliament building and the final battle of a separatist war raged over this seaside city. When it was ...

Most of Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in fighting that ended in 1993, and Georgia lost control of the rest of the territory in a short war with Russia in 2008. Russia recognizes Abkhazia as an ...

Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia after a conflict that ended in 1993, with Georgia losing control of the remaining territory following a brief war with Russia in 2008.

Russia's formal recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia -- which it declared following the 2008 war with Georgia -- amounted to a point of no return, a step that would be ...

Russia defeated Georgia in a five-day war last month and drew Western condemnation by recognising Abkhazia and another pro-Russian province, South Ossetia, as independent states.

Pro-Putin Faction 'At War' In Georgia. Published May 17, ... in which the Kremlin cemented its puppet separatist allies in the northern Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Protests that blocked bridges to the capital of the Russia-backed Georgian separatist region of Abkhazia ended Tuesday after authorities freed five opposition supporters ...

Russia's deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war "very close," a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.