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Abkhazia’s president resigned Tuesday after protests over a Russian investment deal. Demonstrators stormed parliament last week, opposing Moscow’s economic influence. The breakaway Georgian republic, recognized globally as Georgian territory, has been under Russian control since the 2008 war with Tbilisi. Source link
Protesters who stormed the parliament building in Georgia’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia refused to leave the premises on Saturday, despite the president’s offer to resign. Opposition activists stormed the parliament and a presidential administration building in the region’s capital, Sukhumi, on Friday, protesting an investment agreement with Moscow that would allow Russians to buy local real estate. […]
Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region was rocked by protests this week after five activists opposing a controversial investment treaty with Russia were detained and held by security services. Though all detainees were released on Tuesday after nearly 24 hours of protests, tensions persist as the region’s parliament is set to vote on ratification of the divisive […]
Georgia’s pro-European president on Monday alleged that parliamentary polls – whose results have been rejected by the opposition – were marred by widespread voting fraud bearing the hallmarks of Russia’s influence, as tens of thousands took to the streets of the capital Tbilisi in response to opposition calls to protest against the “stolen election”. According […]