SUKHUMI, Abkhazia – Less than five miles from the heart of the 2014 Olympic Village is a hidden nation. It has its own passport, language, flag and anthem. It has lingering scars of a bloody civil war ...

The Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi these days amply illustrates French novelist Marcel Proust's maxim that houses are a “fleeting” receptacle for memories. But local authorities are out to prove Proust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eerie photographs reveal the abandoned burned-down parliament building where 500 people were killed in the Sukhumi massacre. More ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When local council members gathered in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia last week to discuss new measures promoting ...

It’s Thursday night at the Soviet-era House of Culture in Agudzera, a village outside Sukhumi, the capital of the breakaway region of Abkhazia, and three Abkhaz rock bands are setting up for a concert ...

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On September 27, 1993, after a week and a half of fierce fighting, control of Sukhumi, the largest city of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, passed from Georgian units to Abkhaz formations ...

An Abkhaz boy jumps from an abandoned Turkish freighter beached near central Sukhumi, Abkhazia. After more than 15 years of economic blockades by Georgia, investment in Abkhazia is almost ...

SUKHUMI -- You won't see many kilts or blue St. Andrew's flags in the Abkhaz capital. But in a territory with its own emotional claim on independence, support for Scottish statehood is unanimous -- ...

The fire took place at the art gallery of the Union of Artists of Abkhazia, where the paintings were being stored Photo: Jam News / X (formerly known as Twitter) A massive fire has destroyed more than ...