SUKHUMI, Abkhazia – Less than five miles from the heart of the 2014 Olympic Village is a hidden nation. It has its own passport, language, flag and anthem. It has lingering scars of a bloody civil war ...
SUKHUMI -- A row of Russian and Abkhaz flags flutter in the Black Sea breeze in front of the stately government headquarters in the Abkhaz capital. Along the winding beachfront promenade, locals point ...
Entering the headquarters of Sergei Bagapsh in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, you could be forgiven for thinking that Bagapsh is already the president of this self-styled independent state. Ever ...