ABKHAZ WORRIED BY LANGUAGE LAW
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posted by FerrasB on December, 2007 as Abkhazia
From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 12/20/2007 9:14 AM ABKHAZ WORRIED BY LANGUAGE LAW Concerns that a new law to promote the Abkhaz language may be counterproductive. By Anahid Gogorian in Sukhum A new law designed to enhance the status of the Abkhaz language is taking effect amid worries that it will drive people away from the republic and hurt the independent press. On November 27, de facto president Sergei Bagapsh signed the law "on the state language of the Republic of Abkhazia" which enshrines Abkhaz as the language of official communication. The bill was discussed in parliament for seven years, outlasting two elections, before finally being adopted on November 14. it assigns Abkhaz the status of a state language alongside Russian, with a tight time-frame set for it to be made the language of all public business. >From ... >> full artcle...
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Kakiev: Pro-Moscow Chechens Have Been Sent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 12/20/2007 6:32 PM Kakiev: Pro-Moscow Chechens Have Been Sent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia Nezavisimaya Gazeta on December 19 quoted Said-Magomed Kakiev, the former commander of the Zapad special-purpose battalion who is currently Chechnya's deputy military commissar, as confirming that servicemen from the Zapad Battalion and the Vostok Battalion—the other Chechen-manned special-purpose unit of the Russian Defense Ministry's 42nd Motorized Infantry Division—have been sent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The newspaper noted that reports of Chechen spetsnaz being among the Russian "peacekeeping" troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia began to appear after the International Olympic Committee named Sochi as the site for the 2014 Winter Olympics, but that the Russian military had consistently denied the reports. Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted Kakiev as saying that "part of the 'Zapad' battalion is located in ... >> full artcle...
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Kafkasya Forum: To The President Of The Republic Of Abkhazia
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/19/2007 11:37 PM To the President of the Republic of Abkhazia Mr. Sergey Bagapsh We are writing to you to share our concerns regarding the decision of the Russian Federation to open polling stations in Abkhazia and Ossetia for the parliamentary elections that will be held on 2 December 2007 in Russia. We think that this situation has challenged the attempts and efforts of the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia in getting de jure independence. Abkhazia fought for its independence during the war against Georgia in 1992-93. Though Abkhazia won the war, Abkhazia was not given its de jure independence and was named as a separatist, as a result of the international politics that took place in the post-war period. Then, in 1999, Abkhazia declared its independence unilaterally and even Russia, which ... >> full artcle...
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Agency Caucasus: Abkhazia To Be Put Under CRRR Research
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2007 6:28 AM
Abkhazia to be put under CRRR research
Sukhum/Agency Caucasus - The Caucasus Research Resource Centers, or CRRC, will conduct a social research in Abkhazia.
Jesse Driscoll, a CRRR representative, talked in Sukhum, capital of Abkhazia, on Tuesday to Foreign Minister of Sergei Shamba of Abkhazia. The meeting was about a proposal to carry out a social research in the country. "The research findings will supply objective information about the general standards of living and the socio-economic level of conditions. And the findings will be available to both governmental and non-governmental institutions," Driscoll said.
The CRRP is working together with the Carnegie Corporation, based in New York, the USA, and the Eurasian Foundation. It has its branches in Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan (Armenia) and Baku (Azerbaijan) as well. KU/ÖZ/
12/12/2007
http://www.ajanskafkas.com/haber,17705,detay.htm
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Moscow Times: Refugees Dreaming of Home In Hotel Charm
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/10/2007 5:11 AM Monday, December 10, 2007 Refugees Dreaming of Home in Hotel Charm By Matthew Collin The Hotel Charm isn't really a hotel any more, and it's definitely not charming. The hallways are scruffy, the stairwells are filthy, broken light fittings cast a pall of gloom across the corridors, and in winter it's cold and damp. But for more than a decade, this dingy concrete block in Tbilisi has been home to around 25 families. That's because they haven't got anywhere else to go. Their original homes are destroyed, abandoned or occupied by other people now. They're just a few of the 250,000 Georgians who fled the war in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in the early 1990s: tolvilebi, which means refugees, or to be more accurate -- internally displaced people. Georgia has ... >> full artcle...
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