Abkhasia

Of course, in long regard (ph), there is no way we can reconcile with the fact that in Abkhasia, where population was almost 600,000 people, less than 80,000 are left because of continuous Russians actions over the years.

CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008

The Russians, of course, have a different view, and that is that they've been provoked in a sense, that they've endured these abuses in Ossetia and Abkhasia and they're responding to that.

CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008

Georgia should give independence to Abkhasia and Ossetia if Russia does the same for Chechnya ... and on the condition that those states are neutral and Russian and Georgian free.

The New Cold War: links

But the United States is making it very clear, and the President Saakashvili said the same thing, too, that South Ossetia and Abkhasia are part of Georgia.

CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008

But then South Ossetia and Abkhasia are special cases, too.

CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008

Thirty-six years ago I was in Georgia and Abkhasia on assignment for CBS News.

Murray Fromson: Musings From Moscow

Thirty-six years ago I was in Georgia and Abkhasia on assignment for CBS News.

Murray Fromson: Musings From Moscow

Two months ago, he could have triggered a war with his other breakaway province of Abkhasia by calling for the explusion of Russian peacekeepers from there, but European diplomats persuaded him to step back.

Murray Fromson: Mixed Signals

Thirty-six years ago I was in Georgia and Abkhasia on assignment for CBS News.

Murray Fromson: Musings From Moscow

All this after the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, took the dramatic step of recognizing as independent states two breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhasia and South Ossetia, despite warnings from the United States for him not to do so.

CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008