In this photo taken from video released by AIASHARA Independent Agency, Protesters gather outside the parliament building of the Georgian separatist region of Abkhazia as tensions flared over a ...

De facto lawmakers of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia on December 3 rejected an investment deal with Russia, a document that has caused political turmoil and mass protests, highlighting the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Georgia's rebel Abkhazia region died in a Moscow hospital on Sunday from complications after lung surgery, Abkhaz officials said. Sergei Bagapsh, 62, in power since ...

Georgia lost control of the rest of the region in the short 2008 war with Russia. Aside from Russia, only four countries recognize Abkhazia as independent: Venezuela, Syria, Nicaragua and Nauru.

Protesters opposing a measure that would have allowed Russians to buy property in the Georgian territory of Abkhazia stormed into the separatist region's parliament building and presidential ...

Abkhazia has been largely under separatist control since the end of a war in 1993. Georgia lost control of the rest of the region in the short 2008 war with Russia.