January arrests of the opposition members in Abkhazia – is the government capable, by launching repressive mechanisms, of stabilizing the internal political situation and avoiding further assaults on the presidential palace? Is the elite capable of drawing the right conclusions against the backdrop of the ongoing dramatic events in Kazakhstan?

Inal Khashig, editor-in-chief of the Abkhaz newspaper Chegemskaya Pravda, spoke about this in the Conversation program with historian Astamur Tania.