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07 December, 2022
Султан Сусналиев - первый полководец горских народов КавказаSultan Sosnaliev: First Commander of the Mountain Peoples of the CaucasusAuthor: Musa ShanibovYear: 2011 / 2012Place of Publication: Sukhum, NalchikPublished by: AbkhazWorld (reflectionsonabkhazia.net)Number...
05 December, 2022
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for HimAuthor: Donald RayfieldYear: 2004Place of Publication: New YorkPublished by: Random HouseNumber of pages: 616Language: English
03 December, 2022
Abkhazia: 1992-2022 pp. 167-208 Edward MihalkaninAssociate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. U.S.A. Russia’s relations with Georgia and Abkhazia since the breakup of the Soviet Union and a...
02 December, 2022
A delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Abkhazia, headed by its president Tamila Mertskhulava takes part in the XX International Trade Fair (VIETNAM EXPO...
30 November, 2022
The following excerpts were published in The Baltimore Sun newspaper by Scot Shane on January 26, 1989. Appeal of Alexei Kogoniya's brother and sister to the People's Deputy of the USSR THE...
30 November, 2022
In Istanbul, at the Depo Gallery, an exhibition opened with the participation of the Abkhaz cultural platform SKLAD. It got its name from a video installation by British artist Sam...
04 June, 2022
The Rise and Fall and Revival of the Ibero-Caucasian HypothesisHistoriographia Linguistica Vol. 35:1/2 (2008), pp. 23–82 Kevin Tuite Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal 8. The Ibero-Caucasian hypothesis and the historiography of Abkhazia (pp.53-65)8.1 P’avle Ingoroq’va, Giorgi Merčule, and the...
24 February, 2022
In 1989 at the start of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict the late Academician Andrei Sakharov in one of his last articles called Georgia a ‘mini-empire’ (Ogonёk 1989, 31). Later, describing the relationship between Abkhazia and Georgia, he wrote: "I tend to justify...
26 April, 2020
Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology, edited by Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett Cambridge University Press 1995 Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus (Part III Eastern Europe and Eurasia) pp. 149-174 By Philip L. Kohl and Gocha R...
21 October, 2008
Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership History and Documents Central Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267–323, 1993 by George B. Hewitt The Abkhazians living in Turkey have preserved very well the customs, language and dances carried there from Abkhazia by their ...
23 May, 2020
In June 1861, on the initiative of the Ubykhs, a 'mejlis' (parliament) was constituted not far from Sochi; it was known as 'The Great and Free Assembly'. The Ubykhs, the Circassian Shapsughs and Abadzekhs/Abzakhs, and the Abkhazian tribes of Ahchypsy...
28 February, 2020
Everyone who is somehow familiar with the history of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia could not help but hear about the Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, which was soon renamed the Confederation. This is no...
14 February, 2020
After most of Abkhazia’s indigenous Abkhazians were expelled to Ottoman lands firstly at the end of the Russian-Caucasian War (1864) and then following the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), their vacated lands immediately started to attract colonisation from such diverse incomers as:...
14 March, 2013
Reflections on Abkhazia: [14 August] 1992-2012 Immediately after the Caucasian War (21 May 1864), in June 1864 the independent princedom of Abkhazia was abolished, and the sovereign prince Mikhail Shervashidze (Chachba) was subjected to political repression; in 1866, he died in...
25 March, 2021
Joseph de Baye (1853-1931), French archaeologist and traveller. Baron Joseph de Baye (French) was initially a keen amateur archaeologist. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ministry of Public Instruction sent him on a mission to collect pottery in...
20 July, 2020
How Easily One Forgets... Contrast the following with the widely held misconception that Abkhazia's problem with Georgia resulted from its being a mere puppet of the Kremlin's 'anti-Georgian' politics? Most of the 1990s, especially when Shevardnadze-protegé Andrei Kozyrev served as Boris...
28 April, 2020
Yuri Magomedovich Shanibov lived a rich (Soviet) biography that fully reflected the changing historical epochs. Back in 1997 the world-famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu felt so intrigued by the photo of the distinguished-looking Shanibov, always in his Caucasian sheepskin papakha hat —...
04 February, 2018
The secrets of the ancient method of preparing the Abkhazian national seasoning known as ajika [adjika or adzhika; Abkhaz: аџьыка] and the transformation of hot pepper and spices on stone into a unique, fragrant and piquant ‘masterpiece’ were revealed to a correspondent...
