While heavily supported by Russia, Abkhazians are fiercely independent, and Bzhania was seen as sacrificing autonomy to please Moscow. Voters are now set to choose between five candidates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would continue supplying electricity to the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia at a meeting in the Kremlin on Wednesday with its leader Badra Gunba.

SUKHUM, August 25. /TASS/. Polling stations have opened in the Republic of Abkhazia, in which Abkhazians are voting to elect the republic’s new president, the Central Electoral Commission ...

SUKHUM, July 10. /TASS/. Abkhazia’s citizens have ignored Sunday’s referendum on early presidential elections, a fact, which, according to political analysts, can be interpreted as a lack of ...