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Analysis, book reviews and photography from Abkhazia and the wider Caucasus --- updates when time permits

Book review: Empty land Promised land Forbidden land by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen

Empty land Promised land Forbidden land Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
The Sochi Project
November 2010
272 pages

This is an unusual book. It is a book about Abkhazia, which in itself is rare enough. What is more, it is not academic conflict literature. Still more remarkable, it attempts …

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Abkhazian Deputy and statesman Vladimir Emin-ipa Nachach passes away

On Tuesday the 8th, Vladimir Emin-ipa Nachach passed away. He had been one of the most valuable members of the People's Assembly since he was first elected in 2002. A trained Lawyer and a veteran from the 1992-1993 war with Georgia, Nachach had headed the Committee on Legislation, Judicial and …

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