The president of the St. Petersburg Political Foundation, Mikhail Vinogradov, in connection with the unrest in Abkhazia, recalled “a brief and simplified political history of Abkhazia.”
“The eternal Abkhazian question: which of them is the junta?” – noted the political scientist.
In 2004, Vinogradov writes, Moscow decided to support the seriously ill president. Vladislav Ardzinba candidacy of a graduate of the Minsk KGB school for prime minister Raul Khajimba. But there was a revolution in the republic and a businessman won the elections. Sergey Bagapsh. Russia had to act as a mediator: Khadzhimba became Bagapsh’s vice president, but he did not play any special role, Vinogradov recalled.
In 2009, six months before the election, Khajimba resigned as vice president, but lost again to Bagapsh.
In 2011, after the sudden death of Bagapsh, Khadzhimba ran for election and came third, and won the vice-presidentship, who came from the Ministry of Interior. Alexander Ankvab.
In 2014, Ankvab was overthrown and Khadzhimba was elected president.
In 2019, Khajimba declared himself the winner of the presidential election, but was quickly overthrown and assumed the presidency in 2020. Aslan Bzhania (graduate of higher KGB courses), who headed the State Security Service of Abkhazia under Bagapsh and Ankvab. Ankvab immediately becomes prime minister.
“2024. Something is happening again in Abkhazia. The protests are believed to be led by Ardzinba (“leader of the Abkhazian popular movement” Adgur Ardzinba. — EADaily) – another, not a son, not like with Kokovs (in Kabardino-Balkaria. – EADaily), – but Khadzhimba is the candidate”, – Vinogradov concluded.
EADaily reported that opposition forces occupied the government complex buildings in Sukhum and demanded the early resignation of President Aslan Bzhania. According to the latest information, Bzhania told opposition negotiators that he would not accept this demand.
The Russian Foreign Ministry advised its citizens to refrain from traveling to Abkhazia and stay away from places of unrest. The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, in turn, recommended that tourist companies suspend the sale of trips to Abkhazia.
