Vano Abramashvili: I think that we can talk with the Abkhaz even under the conditions of occupation. This simply requires political will and the correct formats.
Tornike Sharashenidze: First and foremost, both sides must acknowledge their mistakes and crimes. After this step, all other processes will proceed more easily.
Paata Zakareishvili: "Tbilisi can offer Abkhazia and Tskhinvali something Russia never can: not rigid control, but a long-term relationship based on respect for their human and political reality"
Malkhaz Toria: "Georgian and Abkhaz views of history mirror competing nationalisms. Both sides see Abkhazia as exclusively their own. Dialogue is needed—not to change minds, but to foster deep mutual understanding"
Movement across the dividing line on Enguri remains possible but conditional and unpredictable, impacting family life, economic livelihoods, and access to social services.
The Abkhaz opposition leader on political disagreements as the main threat to security; on the upcoming parliamentary elections; and on how to convince Georgia to abandon its illusions and recognize Abkhazia as a state.
Denis Cenusa: “Cyprus’s territorial issue wasn’t ‘existential’ for the EU, as its special relationship with Turkey played a role. For Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, things may be different”
Vano Abramashvili: I think that we can talk with the Abkhaz even under the conditions of occupation. This simply requires political will and the correct formats.
Movement across the dividing line on Enguri remains possible but conditional and unpredictable, impacting family life, economic livelihoods, and access to social services.
Inal Khashig and Astamur Tania discuss January arrests of the opposition members in Abkhazia and whether such repressions can help stabilize the situation and prevent the storming of the presidential palace?
How conflict affects the economy in Georgian and Abkhaz societies, and how can both benefit from reopening of economic borders and meaningful cooperation
"In the second Karabakh war, Russia surpassed the West. The "new" world is the "Russian world", and the West is even more excluded from the sphere of conflict resolution"
