SOKHUM, Abkhazia (Aug. 30) -- Russian tourists dressed in a colorful array of sequined bikinis and tiny Speedos are spending their summer holidays in record numbers in Abkhazia, the bullet-riddled, semi-independent territory between Georgia and Russia.
During the height of the Abkhaz tourism season this month, rows of massive tour buses are rolling into war-scarred Sokhum, Abkhazia's capital city, and disgorging hordes of sun-starved Russians onto the freshly tiled boardwalk downtown.
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Strange metamorphoses have occurred in some Georgian politicians. Lately, a sudden interest by Georgia in Latin American countries had awoken, and we fail to understand the actual reason – whether it is the anomalously hot summer, or whether it is political conjuncture. Having replaced bad temper with mercy, absolutely unexpected statements have recently appeared in the lexicon of official representatives of Tbilisi. For instance Georgiy Baramidze, vice-prime minister of Georgia, made a statement of such a kind: "The issue of mutual relations with Latin America became for Georgia especially important after the August war in South Ossetia and the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by one of the region’s countries - Venezuela.” This statement appeared in the mass media at the very same time that ...
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