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    • Monday, 20 January, 2020
      News in-depthFT Alphaville
      What Abkhazia’s crypto dalliance teaches us about monetary sovereignty 

      While it takes more to be a sovereign than just operating your own central bank, it doesn’t half help with appearances.

    • Friday, 10 March, 2017
      Food & Beverage
      The wine industry offers hope for Abkhazia

      Grapes, which produce both red and white wines, provide much-needed income in a region with rampant unemployment

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Football meets nationhood at the World Cup of unrecognised states

      Euro 2016 will be remembered for the heroics of smaller countries like Wales and Iceland. But can football blaze a path to nationhood?

    • Thursday, 17 September, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tangerines — film review

      Conflict comes to the door of two orange farmers in Abkhazia, Georgia in Zaza Urushadze’s film

    • Tuesday, 2 June, 2015
      The World blogTony Barber
      Odessa appointment raises questions over Poroshenko’s judgement
    • Thursday, 5 March, 2015
      Russian politics
      Russia launches war games in disputed territories

      Large-scale military exercises likely to irk neighbouring countries

    • Wednesday, 18 February, 2015
      Emerging markets
      Georgia wary of Moscow deals with South Ossetia and Abkhazia

      Treaty seen as ‘another attempt at the revision and correction of borders on the part of Russia’

    • Friday, 30 January, 2015
      beyondbricsUS downturn
      Abkhazia: a new El Dorado on the Black Sea coast?
    • Tuesday, 25 November, 2014
      Russian politics
      Georgia calls on west to condemn Abkhazia treaty with Russia

      PM sees it as ‘another step towards annexation’ of breakaway region by Moscow

    • Monday, 24 November, 2014
      Emerging markets
      Vladimir Putin signs treaty with Abkhazia and puts Tbilisi on edge

      Russia’s accord with breakaway Georgian republic puts Tbilisi on edge

    • Thursday, 26 June, 2014
      beyondbricsEmerging markets
      Georgia, Moldova to sign EU association agreements
    • Monday, 16 June, 2014
      World
      Georgia ready for EU deal ‘complications’ from Russia
    • Thursday, 29 May, 2014
      FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
      The 6am London Cut
    • Wednesday, 28 May, 2014
      Ukrainian politics
      Moscow tested as Abkhazian president flees amid protests
    • Friday, 18 April, 2014
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Ukraine: The ‘war without war’ that rumbles on

      The country’s east remains a tinderbox at risk of a lethal spark

    • Friday, 21 March, 2014
      Tony Barber
      Putin bites at the west where his predecessors growled

      For Russia’s leader the crisis is about the defence of fundamental interests, says Tony Barber

    • Monday, 17 March, 2014
      beyondbricsMarkets
      Guest post: Putin grabs the Crimea but loses Ukraine
    • Friday, 28 February, 2014
      Ukrainian politics
      Crimea tensions echo Georgia of 2008
    • Thursday, 6 February, 2014
      beyondbricsOlympic Games
      Abkhazia: close to Sochi, far from the Olympics
    • Tuesday, 24 September, 2013
      beyondbricsMarkets
      Further reading: brand power
    • Friday, 22 March, 2013
      Russian politics
      Elite Russians adopt the staycation habit
    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2013
      beyondbricsGlobal trade
      Russia & Georgia: wine tasting
    • Friday, 24 February, 2012
      Life & Arts
      The Diary: Simon Sebag Montefiore

      Sipping margaritas with Richard Dawkins on the sideline of a Sri Lanka literary fest, a glorious Albania book tour and the sequel to ‘Sashenka’

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2011
      Global Economy
      Russia clears final hurdle to joining WTO
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2011
      beyondbricsGlobal trade
      Russia/WTO: what’s in it for Georgia?
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