Museums & Institutions A Fire Destroys Thousands of Artworks at Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery. More than 300 works by Abkhazian artist Alexander Chachba-Shervashidze were lost in the blaze.

Many in Abkhazia proudly remind visitors that Moscow's preferred candidate in the territory's 2004 presidential election, former KGB officer Raul Khajimba, was soundly defeated by Bagapsh.

On Friday, February 7, many residents of Abkhazia will be able to see the glow of the opening fireworks at the Sochi Winter Olympics from their homes. But that is as close as they will get.

According to media reports of September 30, a young ethnic Georgian man from Gali district of Abkhazia has burned the Abkhaz flag, while the celebrations of “victory and independence day” were under ...

Arda Arshaniya-Ardzinba knew nothing about flags when she was asked to sew one. But that was 1992, the days of Abkhazia’s birth, when everyone had to turn their hands to anything.

One year after the end of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled to the breakaway region of Abkhazia on August 12 to pledge to protect the territory from any ...

The leader of the Georgian breakaway province of Abkhazia has indicated that his region could become part of the Russian federation. Skip to main content ABC News Homepage ...

The leader of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, warned on Saturday that the republic was facing a "humanitarian catastrophe" due to a critical shortage of electricity.

In this photo taken from video released by AIASHARA Independent Agency, Protesters with Abkhazian flags gather outside the parliament building of the Georgian separatist region of Abkhazia as ...

Abkhazia elections underline dangers of independence. Recent elections in Abkhazia, which declared itself independent from Georgia after the civil war in 1993, resulted in a victory for the region ...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Protesters opposing a measure that would have allowed Russians to buy property in the Georgian territory of Abkhazia stormed into the separatist region's parliament ...