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posted by FerrasB on February, 2007 as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/23/2007 9:08 PM Thursday, February 22, 2007 Ethnic Germans Cut Adrift in Abkhazia By Kevin O'Flynn Staff Writer SUKHUMI, Georgia -- Lavrenty Gart, 71, remembers vividly when the secret police came for his mother after war broke out with Nazi Germany in 1941. He himself wouldn't have survived were it not for his neighbors. His neighbors -- Poles, Armenians and Georgians -- hid him and family members even though they were Germans. "It saved us," said Gart, now head of the Society of Germans in Abkhazia. "Nobody asked what nationality you were. There was that kind of friendship among different peoples." Abkhazia has long been known as a land where an array of peoples, cultures and ethnicities overlap. As early as the sixth century B.C., historian Edward Gibbons noted, 132 tongues could be heard in the marketplace ... >> full artcle...
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CAUCASIAN KNOT: Abkhazia Suspends Talks Until Release Of Two State Servants
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2007 2:14 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 9/2/2007 Abkhazia suspends talks with Georgia until release of her two state servants Until release of two senior employees of the Galskiy District Administration - Fridon Chakaberia and David Sigua - the leadership of Abkhazia refuses to continue dialogue with Georgia. Sergei Bagapsh, president of Abkhazia, has told about it today. "Our claims to release Fridon Chakaberia, head of administration of the Bagryab village of the Galskiy District, are still ignored by the Georgian party. We understand quite well that the reason of his arrest, and of kidnapping David Sigua, a senior officer of the administration of the Galskiy District, was the so-called cooperation with Abkhazian authorities," Mr. Bagapsh has noted. Meanwhile, the Security Council of Abkhazia has made a decision on participation of the Abkhazian delegation, headed ... >> full artcle...
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KC: International Crisis Group Reports On Abkhaz Conflict
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/11/2007 12:26 AM International Crisis Group Reports on Abkhaz Conflict Publication time: 9 February 2007, 22:08 Fourteen years of negotiation, led by the UN and Russia, have done little to resolve the conflict in Abkhazia and "if the sides continue to flex their muscles and do not resume talks, there could be renewed hostilities in 2007, especially in and around the Kodori valley and the Gali district," the Belgium-based International Crisis Group said in a report issued on January 18. The report notes there was optimism in spring 2006 when the UN-led Georgian-Abkhaz Coordinating Council was resumed and both the Georgian and Abkhaz sides proposed initiatives on peaceful settlement. "But the sharp deterioration in Russian-Georgian relations and a Georgian military adventure in the Kodori valley have contributed to a freeze in diplomacy over Abkhazia ... >> full artcle...
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Natpress: Hazrail Hanahok: Adygs Can Support Russia In Preventing Of NATO Forces
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/11/2007 6:14 AM Hazrail Hanahok: Adygs can support Russia in preventing of NATO forces’ quartering in Georgia 11.2.2007 The chairman of the Adygeya informal association “Union of veterans of Abkhazia” Hazrail Hanahok in his interview to Natpress basically spoke about political value of the visit of the president of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to Jordan. In his opinion, the Adygeyan foreign Diaspora with its significant influence in the countries of the Near East can be involved by the Russian management both for solving of other problems, and for the "nearest" problem – prevention of NATO forces’ quartering in Georgia. Hanahok reminded about the value of the Adygeyan Diaspora’s participation in the war of Abkhazia against Georgia. He also notified that, “probably, the Russian management should notice the peaceful as a whole attitude ... >> full artcle...
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CAUCASIAN KNOT: Abkhazia Suspends Talks Until Release Of Two State Servants
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2007 2:14 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 9/2/2007 Abkhazia suspends talks with Georgia until release of her two state servants Until release of two senior employees of the Galskiy District Administration - Fridon Chakaberia and David Sigua - the leadership of Abkhazia refuses to continue dialogue with Georgia. Sergei Bagapsh, president of Abkhazia, has told about it today. "Our claims to release Fridon Chakaberia, head of administration of the Bagryab village of the Galskiy District, are still ignored by the Georgian party. We understand quite well that the reason of his arrest, and of kidnapping David Sigua, a senior officer of the administration of the Galskiy District, was the so-called cooperation with Abkhazian authorities," Mr. Bagapsh has noted. Meanwhile, the Security Council of Abkhazia has made a decision on participation of the Abkhazian delegation, headed ... >> full artcle...
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