A fire broke out at the National Art Gallery of Abkhazia — a pro-Russian separatist republic that is officially part of Georgia — in the early hours of Sunday morning, destroying at least 4,000 works ...

A fire tore through the central exhibition hall of the National Art Gallery in the Russian-backed breakaway Republic of Abkhazia in occupied Georgia on January 21, destroying more than 4,000 paintings ...

Crammed into a beat-up van driving up the Black Sea coast to Sukhumi, the capital of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, we passengers listen over and over to a CD compilation of Caucasian pop hits.

It is difficult to overestimate Abkhazia’s reliance on Russia. Regardless of politics and the doings of men, geography makes this unbalanced relationship inevitable. To the north of Abkhazia lies the ...

SUKHUMI -- In Abkhazia, Benetton is just another word for unwanted isolation. When the clothing giant announced plans to open a store in the separatist region earlier this year, it faced howls of ...

High atop a mountain chain in western Turkey stands Mezit village, a hamlet founded in the 19th century by Abkhaz rebels on the run from Tsarist Russian troops. More than 130 years later, Mezit's ...

Sergey Shamba noted that Abkhazia's foreign partners have not yet expressed any concern about the situation in the republic SUKHUM, November 12. /TASS/. The situation developing in Abkhazia is its ...

Nov 19 (Reuters) - The leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his deputy until new elections, days after protesters seized government buildings and ...