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

Georgia: One war, two films, many opinions As new films provoke national debate about the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia, Georgian society agrees to disagree on how to remember the conflict and deal with its ...

In August 2017, nine years after the second Russo-Georgian war, the Russian-controlled Georgian province of Abkhazia welcomed Bashar al-Assad’s governmental officials.

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 ...

Georgia lost that war, with Abkhazia becoming a “breakaway republic” under Russian control, as well as an enclave for drugs, counterfeit tobacco, and other contraband.

Abkhazia 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.

Following days of unrest in which the opposition seized government buildings, the leader of Georgia's separatist region of Abkhazia has resigned.

Backed by Russia, Abkhazia fought a war of secession with Georgia in 1992-93, before unilaterally declaring independence. Abkhazia's economy depends overwhelmingly on tourism from Russia.

Abkhazia has been largely under separatist control since the end of a war in 1993. Georgia lost control of the rest of the region in the short 2008 war with Russia.

The separatist leader of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the opposition and its supporters seized key government buildings and at least 14 ...