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20 results for Abkhazia

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Politics

19 October 2017

How do you do foreign affairs when nobody recognises your country? Plus: why the US is in the year of the infallible mayor.

Film

Thirteen years after declaring independence from Soviet Georgia, Abkhazia is still not recognised as a legitimate state by other countries. Monocle correspondent Shaun Walker reports from this former tourist paradise, still…

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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 208: Abkhazia chooses a president... again

25 March 2020

Andrew Mueller discusses an unusual election in the post-Soviet breakaway state of Abkhazia.

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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 304: Déjà vu?: Revisiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia

23 February 2022

As Russia sends troops to support separatists in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Andrew Mueller warns against drawing parallels with the Russo-Georgian War of 2008.

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Young rebels

17 August 2007

No one – not even its only ally, Russia – recognises Abkhazia as a legitimate state. But 13 years after declaring independence from former Soviet Georgia, the region’s de facto government is determined to put it on the map…

Radio

The Globalist - Wednesday 4 July

4 July 2018

Mike Pompeo is set to make another trip to Pyongyang but is total denuclearisation a mere pipe dream? Plus: the nonagenarian challenging Brexit in the European Court of Justice and how the disputed region of Abkhazia hopes…

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To russia with love

17 October 2008

Following this summer’s Georgian war, breakaway territory Abkhazia has been recognised as independent by Russia and Nicaragua. Limited diplomatic credibility hasn’t stopped it wanting the trappings of statehood: it hopes…

Monocle Minute

Eyes on the ball

1 June 2016

It’s a good month to be a football fan. This weekend the best in the Americas meet in the Copa America, while a week later Europe’s finest take part in Euro 2016. And if you can’t wait for either there’s always the World…

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New iron lady

17 January 2009

After last summer’s disastrous war against Russia, Georgia’s opposition leaders felt that patriotism should come before any attack on their president, Mikheil Saakashvili. But now the time for retribution is getting nearer…

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Europe

17 March 2011

Alcohol tax in Turkey, election with Finland and Georgia's diplomacy love-in.

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Oceania

16 February 2012

Eurozone citizens head to Australia, schools get tough on pupils in Micronesia, and the authorities investigate dolphin smuggling in the Solomon Islands.

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Diplomacy

17 October 2012

We meet Georgia’s ambassador to Germany and take a dip at the UN swimming club in Geneva.

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Africa/Middle East

15 August 2009

Somaliland does democracy (while the rest of the world denies the country's existence), Yemen's president claims he's been a crime-fighting success (while his country goes into meltdown), and it's back to school in Gaza …

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But who are you?

17 August 2007

With corporate brands more powerful than country brands, there’s a lot of work out there for agencies keen to rethink a nation’s identity. Over the next 40-plus pages *Monocle* looks at the construct of countries.

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Expo 55: Tbilisi

21 June 2012

Chaotically beautiful, brimming with optimism and inhabited by friendly, fun-loving people, the capital of Georgia is a lesson in transformation.

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Be here next year

17 November 2008

From a southern African state that has gone from hungry nation to food exporter, to a vast new port in Mexico and a sea of trouble in Europe, we pinpoint the places that will make the headlines – for good and bad reasons…