The Moscow News: Man Held As Slave In Georgia For 15 Years
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posted by FerrasB on April, 2007 as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2007 11:39 PM Man Held As Slave in Georgia for 15 Years By Oleg Liakhovich The Moscow News A Russian man held captive for 15 years in Georgia, where he was allegedly used as a slave, was handed over to Russia by Abkhazian security services. Vladimir Obidin, 68, was detained March 6 in a village after he crossed the border between Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia. According to Abkhazia's security services chief Yuri Akshuba, this is not the first time when escaped captives have turned to them for help. The man did not have any documents and claimed to have spent the last 15 years on a private farm in Georgia's Svanetia district, where he was held against his will and used as a farm hand. Several of his previous escape ... >> full artcle...
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: Caucasian Knot: Joint Monitoring Group Left For Kodor Gorge
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posted by FerrasB on March, 2007 as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/24/2007 8:37 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 23/3/2007 Joint monitoring group left for Kodor Gorge According to the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, General Sergey Chaban, Commander of the of the CIS Collective Peacemaking Forces (CIS CPMFs) in the Georgian conflict zone, has confirmed the information about the visit today of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge of the Joint Group instructed to reveal the facts of violations of the Moscow Agreement on Ceasefire and Separation of Troops dated May 14, 1994. The Joint Group includes three representatives from Georgian, Abkhazian and Russian parties each, and three UN observers. From March 13 to March 16, the Group carried out in situ its own investigation into the shelling of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge, which, according to Georgian party, took place at night of March ... >> full artcle...
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CK: Abkhazia Finds The Information On Bombardment Of The Kodor Gorge...
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/14/2007 1:28 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 13/3/2007 Abkhazia finds the information on bombardment of the Kodor Gorge to be non-credible The information of the Georgian mass media about the artillery attack on the territory of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge with application of howitzers and "Grad" installations from the direction of the town of Tkvarcheli (Tkuarchal) has nothing to do with reality. Harry Kupalba, deputy minister of defence of Abkhazia, made this statement to journalists. The Abkhazian deputy minister of defence does not exclude that sweeping of the territory of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge could be made from combat helicopters of the ministry of defence of Georgia. Mr. Kupalba, deputy defence minister, has told today about it to journalists in Sukhumi. In his words, it is notable "that one ... >> full artcle...
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RFE/RL: UN Extends Its Abkhazia Monitoring Mission
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/14/2007 9:22 AM Friday, April 13, 2007 UN Extends Its Abkhazia Monitoring Mission Georgia -- Abkhazia, UN observer mission military patrol at internally displaced persons camp A UN observer mission patrols a camp for displaced persons in Abkhazia (file photo) (Courtesy Photo) UNITED NATIONS, April 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously today to extend by six months its monitoring mission in Georgia's separatist region of Abkhazia. Both the Georgian ambassador to the UN, Irakli Alsania, and his Russian counterpart, Vitaly Churkin, expressed satisfaction with the new resolution and the extension of the mission's mandate. ANALYSIS: Abkhazia Certain To Reject Georgian 'Peace Plan' "It's very important that the resolution does call on the Georgian side -- as far as the Upper Khodori Valley and the situation there is concerned -- to abide by the ... >> full artcle...
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Natpress: President Of Georgia: Abkhazia Won’t Have Waited International...
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/11/2007 1:38 PM President of Georgia: Abkhazia won’t have waited international support 11.3.2007 The president of Georgia Michael Saakashvili declared that in Abkhazia "they should not any longer eat illusions" in relation to getting of the international support since the international commonwealth "an avalanche of statements" about condemnation of the results of the parliamentary elections in Abkhazia took place. "There hadn’t for the last years such avalanche of statements in which the elections in Abkhazia were condemned and the close attention was paid to internally displaced persons", - Saakashvili declared on Friday, March 9th, to the journalists in Tokyo where he had been with a working visit. "It has been so much time we are speaking that the main problem there is that people do not come back to their homes. But nobody ... >> full artcle...
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