On 7-8 December in Sukhum’s A. Karpov Chess School for Children, there took place the open chess-tournament "Chanba Memorial - 2013". The tournament-games were held in two groups: adult participants competed in Group A; in group B were young players aged 14 and under. The tournament attracted 90 chess-enthusiasts.

On 16 October, the winners of the VIIIth Open Football Championship for teams from children's homes and boarding schools "The future depends on you!" in the youngest age-group, namely the team "Ritsa Kaldakhwara", set out on their winning trip from the company MegaFon. For five days, the lads stayed in the home of football, England. A trip to London was the main prize for the two winning teams of the Championship.

On Saturday 31August 31 in Sukhum there took place the IInd Bicycle Run. It was organised it in order to popularise the sport of cycling by the Committee for Youth and Sport in the General Administration of the city of Sukhum together with Sukhum’s Youth House and the Czech organization NESEHNUTI. 

The First Abkhaz Expedition to the Highest Mountain in the World Outside the Himalayas to Be Held on December 20 – January 10. The Purpose of the Project is to Place the Abkhaz Flag on the Aconcagua Peak

Izvestiya -- The football authorities of the Republic expects that, after the Kosovo, the functionaries of FIFA will allow them to hold friendly matches.

The leadership of the Republic of Abkhazia is preparing an appeal to the International Football Federation (FIFA) to allow its national team to hold friendly matches with team-members of FIFA.