posted by circassiankama on March, 2010 as Abkhazia
First Abkhazian president dies
04 March, 2010, 11:28
Vladislav
Ardzinba, who became the first president of Abkhazia after a bloody
conflict with Georgia in early 1990s, died in a Moscow hospital
Wednesday.
Ardzinba was born in Abkhazia and spend most of his life there.
During the final years of the Soviet Union, he was a politician and a
people’s deputy from the autonomous area.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he led the Abkhaz
Defense Committee, and due to his leadership qualities played a crucial
role in securing Abkhazia’s victory against Georgian forces at a time
when the region was fighting for its independence from Tbilisi.
In 1994, Ardzinba was elected president of the then-unrecognized
republic, and five years later was re-elected. In 2005, he was replaced
by the current Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh.
In his final years, Vladislav Ardzinba suffered from a serious
disease, although the exact nature of his illness was never made
public. On February 26, he was delivered to Moscow’s Central Clinical
Hospital, after his health had seriously deteriorated, as Abkhaz
officials reported.
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