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  1. Exactly 10 years ago, on 9 May, I was at the "Victory day" parade in Abkhazia.

    Here are some pictures I took: flickr.com/photos/giocomai/alb #Abkhazia

  2. I'm very sorry for the mapper's horse who had to find out about this 🐴.

    Border crossing MAPP "Adler/Psou" :

    🇷🇺 Sirius, Krasnodai Krai, 🇷🇺 Russian Federation : "Horses not allowed"
    🇷🇺 Giachrypsh, Russian-occupied Abkhazia, 🇬🇪 Georgia : "Horses allowed"

    Why do you insist on border checks after illegally annexing and occupying foreign territory anyway 🤔 ? And why exactly are horses not allowed ?

    #Riding #Abkhazia #BorderCrossings #OSM

  3. Caucase ajouté à l'annuaire RSS 🇫🇷
    Caucasus added to the RSS directory 🇬🇧

    The Georgia tag has a characteristic: an ambiguous word, relating to a geographical close topic, and few websites display it as a mashup of Caucasus country, U.S. state and person.

    68 RSS feeds
    atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_de
    To import into a reader XML/OPML/CSV/TXT
    atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_de

    #RSS #OPML #Caucasus #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Georgia #Chechnya #Ossetia #Nakhchivan #Dagestan #Ingushetia #Abkhazia #Adjara

  4. Russia’s diplomatic mission in the Georgian breakaway territory of #Abkhazia said Friday that it would stop issuing Russian internal passports out of “respect” for the local authorities, coming just a month after Moscow launched the initiative.

    themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/06/

    #Ukraine #Russia #Georgia

  5. The European Court of Human Rights orders Russia to pay Georgia €253 million for its 2008 war.

    The ECHR said Russia had committed violations including excessive use of force, ill-treatment, unlawful detention and unlawful restrictions on day-to-day movement across the administrative boundary line between Georgian-controlled territory and the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian regions.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251014

    #Georgia #Russia #ECHR #Abkhazia #SouthOssetia

  6. @BillMcGuire @stratcom_centre

    many/ most Georgians despise Russian influence on #Georgia, but there's corrupt politicians and disinfo brainwashed morons as well

    see also: #Hungary, #Slovakia, etc

    and Georgia isn't a distraction from #Ukraine, it's the original template

    Georgia was vivisected by #Russia in 2008: #Abkhazia, #SouthOssetia peeled off

    the world shrugged

    so 2014: #Crimea and #Donbas

    again shrugs

    so the full invasion in 2022

    oppose Russia forcefully, or it keeps invading

  7. #US absent from #UN condemnation of #Russia's #war in #Georgia

    In joint statement, representatives of 5 Security Council members — Denmark, France, Greece, the UK & Slovenia — along with incoming member Latvia, denounced #Russian #invasion of #Georgia 17 years ago & continued military presence in #Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions

    The US, in previous years joined similar condemnations, did not join the statement

    kyivindependent.com/us-stays-o

    #TrumpIsARussianAsset #trump #DictatorTrump #traitor

  8. Thursday, August 21, 2025

    5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  9. For 1st time, US refuses to join int'l condemnation of #Russia 2008 invasion of #Georgia and its continued occupation of #Abkhazia and #SouthOssetia regions.

    Joint statement by 5 UN Security Council members & 1 incoming member reaffirms Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s “continuous provocations, violations of international law, and militarization”

    #Ukraine

  10. I’m getting spam from… #Abkhazia 😍😍😍

    Jun 29 18:26:38 mail postfix/smtpd[58952]: Anonymous TLS connection established from ns.ske.abkhazia.su[31.129.22.131]: TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256
    
    Jun 29 18:26:39 mail postfix/smtpd[58952]: 1A61B25061: client=ns.ske.abkhazia.su[31.129.22.131]
    
    Jun 29 18:26:39 mail postfix/cleanup[59375]: 1A61B25061: message-id=<37831661I62488267K08078785V20334208S@idijmersr>
    
    Jun 29 18:26:39 mail postfix/cleanup[59375]: 1A61B25061: milter-reject: END-OF-MESSAGE from ns.ske.abkhazia.su[31.129.22.131]: 4.7.1 clamav: virus found: "Sanesecurity.SpamImg.272.UNOFFICIAL"; from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<ns.ske.abkhazia.su>
    
  11. Sunday, May 4, 2025

    Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  12. #Russia megalomaniac style of doing politics is leading to a gradual loss of influence in #Abkhazia. Moscow has gone so far as to impose sanctions (!) on specific Abkhazian politicians and journalists, whom it accuses of ‘Russophobia’.

    https://jam-news.net/this-isnt-anti-russian-sentiment-yet-but-sense-that-its-coming-opinion-from-abkhazia/

    The Great fucking Strategist® Putin guided by his Genius Geopolitical and Spiritual Guides® such as Dugin and Surkov gradually dismantle Russia’s influence in all region…

  13. Hello Fediverse!

    This is the unofficial account of OC Media, an important media network from the Caucasus region publishing in English.

    oc-media.org/about-us

    #introduction #Georgia, #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Ingushetia #Ossetia #Abkhazia #Chechnya # Circassia #Karachay #Balkaria
    What other regional tags are missing?

  14. Deputy Vakhtang Golandzia died from wounds sustained in a shooting at the parliament building, the press office of acting President Badra Gunba reported. Another parliamentarian was injured in the shoulder.

    The Abkhazian state news agency Apsnypress reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs identified another parliamentarian, Adgur Kharazia, as a suspect in the shooting and that he fled the scene. The report provided no indications of a motive.

    #Georgia #Abkhazia #Shooting

  15. Fun fact - #Bitcoin mining in the self-proclaimed republic of #Abkhazia did not stop in spite of energy crisis where electricity is available for less than 5 hours per day.

    The crisis is caused by low water levels in Abkhazia’s only hydro plant… and Bitcoin mining, which has increased its electricity usage by 50% since it was officially allowed.

    Another fun fact is that that the direct cause of the crisis was #Russia ceasing to supply electricity to Abkhazia on a discount “humanitarian” tariff to punish it for refusal to allow selling land to Russians. Of course, Russians must have known about the Bitcoin mining industry so effectively Russian budget has for a few years subsidised the mining operations with its discounted energy prices 🤦

    https://jam-news.net/if-cryptocurrency-mining-isnt-stopped-abkhazia-will-sink-into-darkness-opinion/

  16. Serious electricity supply problems in #Abkhazia as #Russia introduced market-based rates for electricity exports after the Abkhazian parliament rejected a deal allowing Russian investors to buy up land in the ‘republic’. Previously, Russia had supplied electricity at a subsidised rate as part of ‘humanitarian aid’.[^1]

    That was a situation well known from Ukraine before 2014 when the switch to commercial gas prices was a bogeyman put forward for Kyiv’s decisions that Moscow did not like and resulted in the creation of a gigantic debt, which Russia in turn used to show how ‘Ukraine steals gas’.

    The situation in Abkhazia is not promising because the main source of electricity is the Enguri hydroelectric power station[^2] which is in a poor state of repair despite numerous emergency grants from European institutions in the 2000s.

    It is interesting to note that, despite all these problems, subsidised energy prices have attracted to Abkhazia… Bitcoin miners, which is perhaps the most absurd way to ‘burn through’ scarce energy.

    [^1]: https://jam-news.net/energy-crisis-in-abkhazia-daytime-power-cuts-loom/

    [^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enguri_Dam

  17. You didn’t have to wait too long for #Russia to unroll a hate campaign against #Abkhazia for refusal to sign a “investment protection agreement” with Moscow.

    Oleg Tsaryev writes that “Russia helped Akbhazia gain independence, Russia recognized its independence, Russia helped it financially but in return it got NOTHING”.

    Wait, what? So far the official narrative was that Russia never participated directly in the war, it merely offered a peacekeeping mission! But the truth, of course, is that Russia helped start the war in Abkhazia only to then put it out… and place its troops there. In 1992 an armed brigade of “volunteers” traveled from Russian North Caucasus to Abkhazia on trucks, unbothered on any of numerous police checkpoints - and state border - and there was even a regular military helicopter cruises from Russia into Abkhazia to speed up deliveries.

    It’s not true that Russia “got nothing” - it got 30 years of leverage on #Georgia, blocking its accession to #NATO and EU, it got a military base in Gudauta, it got a puppet country where Russian business was buying attractive buildings dirt cheap and finally it got a military corridor for invasion on Georgia in 2008. The fun fact is that Russian business was complaining about unclear legal status of their investment - because if you invest in a legal black hole, it’s quite stupid to expect legal protection. The “investment protection agreement” was therefore a practical incorporation of Abkhazia into Russia’s legal space and would grant Russia all benefits of annexation without any responsibilities of formal annexation. Which is why Abkhazian side disagreed, feeling Moscow’s weakness.

    P.S. interestingly Tsaryev writes about Abkhazia’s “parliament” and “president” in scare quotes, obviously questioning their legitimacy - which is indeed dubious from international point of view - but it was officially recognised by Russia :)

  18. The parliament in the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of #Abkhazia on Tuesday
    voted against ratifying an investment agreement with Moscow

    which sparked protests last month leading to the removal of the region's self-styled president.

    Opposition leaders in Abkhazia had strongly opposed the agreement

    over fears it would clear the way for wealthy Russian individuals and businesses to buy up property in the lush Black Sea region, pricing out locals.

    reuters.com/world/europe/parli