Russian President Putin orders funding to modernise ‘army’ of occupied Abkhazia
De facto President of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region Raul Khajimba met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August 2019, several days before the so-called elections in the region. Photo: AFP.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to allocate funds for the “modernisation” of the armed forces of Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region, Russian media RIA Novosti reports.
The decree has already been released on the Russian internet portal on legal issues.
RIA Novosti reads that earlier Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and “his Abkhaz counterpart” Merab Kishmaria agreed on the development of military-technical cooperation and the modernisation of the ‘Abkhaz army.’
Before signing th enew agreement, Moscow and Sukhumi will hold talks, the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense will take part in them,” RIA Novosti says.
The media reports that Moscow already provides large-scale financial assistance for the development of the “republic”.
The volume of the investment programme to support Abkhazia for 2017-2019 amounted to about six billion rubles ($93 million),” the agency reports.
Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions of Georgia have only been recognised as independent states by Russia, Venezuela, Nikaragua, Nauru and Syria since the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
The rest of the international community is unanimous in that the regions are occupied by Russia and the country must withdraw its troops from Georgian territory.
US Congressman Francis Rooney has presented a draft bill to the US Congress which condemns last year’s recognition of independence of the two occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) by Syria.The draft cites Georgia as “one of the US’ most reliable allies in Eurasia” and urges the US government and its partners to take active steps suspend the Russian invasion in its neighboring states.
The Georgian Embassy to Germany has sent an official letter to the German Public Broadcaster and the author of a seven-minute TV story which stated incorrect and distorted historic claims about Georgia’s Russian occupied region of Abkhazia, saying that the territory “was handed to Georgia by the head of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his own explanation of how Georgia “engulfed” the currently Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to ensure all possible support for the “national security” of Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region in his letter sent to de facto president of the region Raul Khajimba, Russian new agency RIA Novosti reports.
The Georgian Patriarchate said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent explanation of how Georgia “engulfed” the currently Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions “has caused a negative reaction among our people”. "Such distortion of historic facts continues to deepen the existing conflicts”, the Patriarchate said.
The Russian Prosecutor’s Office reports that an investigation is underway into the embezzlement of 3 billion Russian rubles (about $48 million), that was allocated to rebuild infrastructure in de facto South Ossetia (occupied Tskhinvali).
The Russian Prosecutor’s Office reports that an investigation is underway into the embezzlement of 3 billion Russian rubles (about $48 million), that was allocated to rebuild infrastructure in de facto South Ossetia (occupied Tskhinvali).
The Russian Prosecutor’s Office reports that an investigation is underway into the embezzlement of 3 billion Russian rubles (about $48 million), that was allocated to rebuild infrastructure in Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).