Abkhazia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-09

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Abkhazia


00:02:21 1 Name
00:03:27 2 History
00:03:36 2.1 Early history
00:08:05 2.2 Within the Russian Empire
00:12:04 2.3 Within the Soviet Union
00:14:15 2.4 Post-Soviet Georgia
00:18:19 2.5 Abkhazian War
00:22:23 2.6 Ethnic cleansing of Georgians
00:25:00 2.7 Post-war
00:29:04 2.7.1 Political unrest in 2014
00:30:39 3 Status
00:36:47 3.1 Law on Occupied Territories of Georgia
00:39:08 3.2 Status-neutral passports
00:40:52 3.3 Russian involvement
00:44:21 3.4 International involvement
00:49:44 3.5 Recognition
00:51:09 4 Geography and climate
00:54:47 5 Politics and government
00:56:44 5.1 Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
00:58:23 5.2 Administrative divisions
00:59:13 6 Military
01:00:25 7 Economy
01:02:54 8 Demographics
01:04:01 8.1 Ethnicity
01:06:40 8.2 Diaspora
01:07:12 8.3 Religion
01:08:18 8.4 Language
01:09:55 8.5 Nationality issues
01:10:04 8.5.1 Adoption of Russian nationality
01:12:59 8.5.2 Issue of ethnic Georgians
01:17:19 9 Culture
01:18:40 10 See also



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Abkhazia ( (listen); Abkhazian: Аҧсны́, translit. Apsny [apʰsˈnɨ]; Georgian: აფხაზეთი Apxazeti [ɑpʰxɑzɛtʰi]; Russian: Абха́зия, tr. Abházija, IPA: [ɐˈpxazʲɪjə]), officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a de facto and partially recognized republic on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, south of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in northwestern Georgia. It covers 8,660 square kilometres (3,340 sq mi) and has a population of around 240,000. Its capital is Sukhumi. The separatist Abkhazian polity, formally the Republic of Abkhazia, is recognised as a state by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru and Syria. While Georgia lacks control over Abkhazia, the Georgian government and most United Nations member states legally consider Abkhazia part of Georgia, whose constitution designates the area as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
The status of Abkhazia is a central issue of the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict and Georgia–Russia relations. The region had autonomy within Soviet Georgia at the time when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate in the late 1980s. Simmering ethnic tensions between the Abkhaz—the region's "titular ethnicity"—and Georgians—the largest single ethnic group at that time—culminated in the 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia which resulted in Georgia's loss of control of most of Abkhazia, the de facto independence of Abkhazia, and the ethnic cleansing of Georgians from Abkhazia. Despite the 1994 ceasefire agreement and years of negotiations, the dispute remains unresolved. The long-term presence of a United Nations Observer Mission and a Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeeping force failed to prevent the flare-up of violence on several occasions. In August 2008, Abkhaz forces fought against Georgian forces during the Russo-Georgian War, which led to the formal recognition of Abkhazia by Russia, the annulment of the 1994 ceasefire agreement, and the termination of the UN mission. On 28 August 2008, the Parliament of Georgia declared Abkhazia a Russian-occupied territory, a stance supported by the vast majority of the international community.