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Topic: Sukhumi


In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

  
  Global Fund for Women - Grantee Profile - Sukhumi
Formed in 1995 by five women forcefully displaced from Abkhazia, Sukhumi uses collective power to improve the lives of women, whether or not they are refugees.
Sukhumi conducted an educational campaign aimed at youth, academics, law enforcement, local authorities and the media.
Sukhumi focuses on young women because it believes that they are the key to the future of women's rights.
www.globalfundforwomen.org /cms/content/view/81/125   (274 words)

  
 Avtandil Menteshashvili - Some national and ethnic problems in Georgia (1918-1922)
The main reason given for restoring the historic boundaries was a "necessity to provide the native population with mountain pastures and forests, in view of forthcoming settlement of the agrarian problem at the Constitutional Assembly." The petition was supported by the population of Old Gagra, New Gagra and Alahadzy where a referendum had been held.
Sukhumi district may temporarily remain under the Georgian rule, provided you guarantee safety of the Russian property both in Sukhumi district and all over Georgia; 3.
In this way Sukhumi Cathedral and the church property were given back to their legitimate owners and were not to be returned or taken outside Georgia as the Russian clericals insisted.
sisauri.tripod.com /politic/abkhazia.htm   (13351 words)

  
 ABKHAZIA.ORG - UN NEEDS ASSESSMENT
The port of Sukhumi was primarily used for passenger traffic in the past, as almost all goods were transported by rail.
The referral hospital in Sukhumi, known as the Republican Hospital, and the 14 specialized departments such as oncology, psychiatry, tuberculosis and maternity, are under main authority in Sukhumi.
Of those laid during the war, authorities in Tbilisi and Sukhumi explained that Georgian military units, who had easier access to large supplies, laid the majority of land mines in Ochamchira and Sukhumi districts, while the Abkhaz forces are reported to have laid the majority of mines in the Gali district.
www.abkhazia.org /smtn.html   (11568 words)

  
 The HALO Trust - A charity specialising in the removal of the debris of war
In Abkhazia the landmines were left over from the 1992-93 secessionist war with Georgia that was characterised by front lines moving along the Black Sea coast from the Gumista River, north of the city of Sukhumi, to the Inguri River further south.
Mines were laid in flat and fertile valleys to augment the natural obstacles of the rivers.
If funding levels are maintained, HALO hopes to finish in Abkhazia and declare the territory mine impact free during 2007/8.
www.halotrust.org /abkhazia.html   (312 words)

  
 UNOMIG: United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Abkhaz leadership abandoned the Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi and retreated to the town of Gudauta.
The strength of the Mission was limited to four military observers and four civilians in Sukhumi; one observer in Tbilisi; and seven observers in Sochi, a city within the territory of the Russian Federation, where they were when hostilities resumed.
He noted that the paper on the distribution of competences between Tbilisi and Sukhumi enjoyed the support of all members of the Group of Friends, but there were continuing objections, particularly on the Abkhaz side.
www.un.org /Depts/dpko/missions/unomig/background.html   (7867 words)

  
 EurasiaNet Business & Economics - In Georgia's and Russia's Shadows, A Breakaway Celebration
Plans call for hundreds of Sukhumi residents to gather on September 30 to lay bouquets on martyrs’ graves, watch a military parade and see a performance in the stadium.
Sukhumi boosters and some residents say that Abkhazia has experienced a long-desired spike in economic activity, largely in anticipation of the anniversary.
Leonid Lolua, Sukhumi’s head administrator, encourages economic optimism but warns that the city’s economy is still smaller than it was before the bloody 1992-93 war with Georgia.
www.eurasianet.org /departments/business/articles/eav081103.shtml   (1116 words)

  
 Kvinna till Kvinna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Fund Sukhumi (which is not to be mixed up with the Abkhazian city by the same name), is based in the second biggest city of Georgia, Kutaisi, where many inhabitants are internally displaced persons from Abkhazia, who cannot return to their former homes.
In 2003, Sukhumi educated approximately 600 internally displaced women in conflict resolution and mediation in ethnic conflicts.
Fund Sukhumi reports on developments at all levels of the peace process in a monthly newsletter, as a means to spread knowledge and create engagement for their cause.
www.iktk.se /english/country_info/georgia/sam_sukhumi.html   (344 words)

  
 RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: S :: Sukhumi
Sukhumi's seaside location, beaches, and warm climate made it a popular Black Sea resort, with many sanatoriums and holiday camps.
The city is the site of Sukhumi Botanical Garden, as well as a teacher-training institute and an institute of subtropical agriculture.
Sukhumi was heavily damaged in 1993 during fighting between Abkhazian separatists and Georgian military forces holding the city.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/s/print/sukhumi.shtml   (111 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bomb material missing; is equipment gone, too?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Sometime after insurgents captured the Abkhazian capital, Sukhumi, driving Georgian scientists from the institute, its cache of highly enriched uranium — the stuff of nuclear bombs — vanished.
The Sukhumi complex's work historically focused on enriching uranium to the high levels needed for bombs, and the UN agency, responsible for guarding against the spread of nuclear weapons, wants to learn what equipment was there and whether it is still there, the source said.
In the 1940s and 1950s, with the aid of physicists from conquered Germany, Sukhumi scientists developed gaseous-diffusion and gas-centrifuge technologies, processes in which uranium isotopes are separated and enriched sufficiently to produce an atomic explosion.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/06/26/uranium.htm   (941 words)

  
 Georgia2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
A doctor on duty in one of the Sukhumi hospitals described a scene of bedlam, with the wounded being brought in from both sides, an utter lack of essential supplies, and the hospital occasionally being attacked in the course of the night with small arms fire and sometimes shells.
In the face of losing Sukhumi, the Abkhaz government withdrew to the town of Gudauta north of Sukhumi, where it announced a full-scale mobilization of all Abkhaz men from eighteen to forty years of age.
The second was to eliminate Abkhaz resistance in the Ochamchira region south of Sukhumi and the mountain town of Tkvarcheli and its surrounding villages.
www.hrw.org /reports/1995/Georgia2.htm   (16840 words)

  
 Russian-Georgian war in Abkhazia
Russian military command in Abkhazia continues barbarian bombing of residential districts of Sukhumi, peaceful population is exterminated.
Russian television "Ostankino" widespread disinformation, as if Sukhumi is bombed by the aircrafts of the Confederation of mountain peoples, which has no aviation at all, as it is known.
During these visits bombing of Sukhumi usually was ceased, there was also no shooting from the side of adversary, what gave him possibility of going to the front line and safely visiting trenches, with the aim of self reclame.
www.geocities.com /shavlego/abkhaz_1.html   (11241 words)

  
 Report from Abkhazia
SUKHUMI — One afternoon not long ago in the beleaguered capital of Abkhazia, a tiny self-proclaimed republic on the Black Sea, its reigning satrap, Vladislav Ardzinba, paced his spartan office, nervously awaiting a call from Moscow.
Sukhumi’s downtown, once framed by pastel hostelries and eucalyptus-lined esplanades, now resembles the rubble of Kabul.
Tbilisi has offered Sukhumi “maximum autonomy” within a federation, but Ardzinba insists on “equal status.” “Federation, confederation, union…whatever you want to call it,” he says, “but we must be equal.” It is hard to fault Ardzinba’s intent.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1804/Meier/Meier.html   (2727 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: Georgia: Nuclear Facilities
A fierce civil war erupted in the region in 1992-1993, and Georgian government troops were routed from Sukhumi in September 1993.
Since the Georgian government does not control Sukhumi, it had no access to the facility there and was not able to conduct a physical inventory of the fissile materials.
This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Georgia/Nuclear/4772_4940.html   (1302 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Sukhumi's new policy in the east
Sukhumi has changed its policy in its eastern part, primarily in the Gala district, and now advocates the social, economic, and civic integration of this area with its predominantly Megrel population.
The presidential elections of 2004 were a turning point in Sukhumi's policy towards Abkhazia's eastern regions.
Non-governmental organizations from Sukhumi have also embarked on a whole number of social and humanitarian projects, primarily, in the sphere of education.
en.rian.ru /analysis/20050729/41054355.html   (851 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sukhumi
Sukhumi (the capital) and Gagra are the chief cities.
Rebels Overrun Georgian City; Shevardnadze Stays in Sukhumi to Rally Government Troops
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Sukhumi" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sukhumi   (313 words)

  
 iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ
Priyavrata had visited Sukhumi, Georgia (CIS) earlier this year as part of his mission to inspire and enthuse devotees who have volunteered their services to the worldwide Food for Life programme.
On his arrival in Sukhumi, Priyavrata was shocked to find himself in the middle of a war zone, with devotees risking their lives every day to feed thousands of people who were dependent on the food provided by the programme.
In Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, a television news reporter observed that everyone and everything in the city of Sukhumi was being shot at except a group of brahmans who were feeding the people.
www.iskcon.com /icj/1_2/12comments.html   (1251 words)

  
 Sukhumi Map, Map of Sukhumi | infohub.com
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www.infohub.com /Maps/sukhumi_map_2818.html   (77 words)

  
 NIS Trafficking
He added that there were about 40 laboratories (four laboratories, according to Utro.ru [3]) in the Sukhumi institute and he cannot rule out that the total amount of HEU stored at Sukhumi was "a couple of kilograms." (For the additional information on the missing HEU from the Sukhumi institute, see abstract 19980500).
According to Interfax, Kashiya suggested that "the enriched uranium and other radioactive substances and materials from the institute might have been sold to terrorist organizations or Iraq." This statement differs from what Kashiya said in a May 2001 interview, when he claimed that the missing uranium had been recovered in Poland (see abstract 20010350).
In the 1940s and 1950s, scientists at the Sukhumi institute developed gaseous-diffusion and gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment technologies, and some enrichment experiments were conducted there until the 1993 evacuation.
www.nti.org /db/nistraff/2002/20020340.htm   (472 words)

  
 Abkhazia
Returned in 1821 and seized most of the country, excepting Sukhumi and other Russian occupied forts.
Sukhumi), having had issue, three sons and four daughters:
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who may have changes, corrections or additions to contribute.
4dw.net /royalark/Georgia/abkhazia.htm   (1479 words)

  
 Sukhumi Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was perpetrated against Georgian inhabitants of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists and their North Caucasian and Russian allies.
On September 27, 1993, Separatist forces violated the ceasefire initiated by the UN and guaranteed by the Russian Federation, which barred both sides from performing military operations.
Separatists and their allies started to sweep through the streets of Sukhumi and rounding up all civilians which were found.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sukhumi_Massacre   (808 words)

  
 Sukhumi's Subdued Celebrations
SUKHUMI, Abkhazia -- Zaury Azichba was happy, drunk, sad and angry -- all at the same time.
Standing on the sloping roof of Sukhumi's burned-out government house, a champagne bottle in one hand, and an Abkhaz green, white and red flag in the other, he tried to explain what victory day meant to him and to his three friends standing with him on the rooftop.
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www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1994/10/01/038.html   (163 words)

  
 TIME.com: Siege of Sukhumi -- Oct. 4, 1993 -- Page 1
A stream of blood gushed from a hole in his neck, courtesy of a grenade hurled by Abkhazian insurgents trying to take the city of Sukhumi, the capital of their autonomous region within Georgia.
In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying.
Within 48 hours, surprise had enabled them to seize the heights overlooking the city and pour artillery, mortars and missiles down on the civilian population.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,979327,00.html   (780 words)

  
 Sukhumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city has a long and eventful history.
Sukhumi is also an important air link for Abkhazia, as the Sukhumi Dranda Airport is located nearby the city.
Many holiday dachas for Soviet leaders were situated there.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sukhumi   (1282 words)

  
 Tbilisi conveys its proposals on settlement of Abkhaz conflict to Sukhumi - Russian News - REGNUM
Tbilisi conveys its proposals on settlement of Abkhaz conflict to Sukhumi - Russian News - REGNUM
Tbilisi conveys its proposals on settlement of Abkhaz conflict to Sukhumi
As a REGNUM correspondent is told in the aide’s office, Alasania’s task is to convey and discuss with the Abkhaz side proposals by the official Tbilisi on full-scale settlement of the conflict in Abkhazia.
www.regnum.ru /english/645247.html   (670 words)

  
 July 26-27, 2005 - Sukhumi Foundation Wraps Up Business Training In Kutaisi And Gali
The training was funded by PAS Tbilisi and organized by the Cultural-Humanitarian Sukhumi Foundation, a Democracy Commission Grantee.
IDP businesswomen were taught how to insure and register their business and how to take out a loan.
Alla Gamakharia, Chair of the Sukhumi Foundation, welcomed training participants and sponsors by saying that she was proud of how the participants had overcome many obstacles to establish successful flower, wedding planning, clothing design, textile and other businesses.
georgia.usembassy.gov /events/2005/event20050727DemCom.html   (454 words)

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