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	THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM OF ABKHAZIA IN 1980-2002
		On December 4, 1990 was arranged a session of highest committee of Abkhazian Autonomic Republic in Sokhumi and Vladislav Ardzinba was elected as a chairman of the committee.
		It is remarkable, that the main reason of disagreement between clan of Ardzinba and opposition was struggling for their own financial sustainability and dividing of governing levers.
		It is remarkable that before the elections the attitude of majority towards policy of Vladislav Ardzinba was obviously loyal: Republican Party – radically pro-authority, Communist Party – within reasonable limits pro-authority, The Union Veterans of Patriotic War in Abkhazia – centrist, Citizen's Party – opposition within reasonable limits and Revival – radically opposition.
	www.fes.ge /eng/publication/liflet1.htm (2589 words)

	Vladislav Ardzinba at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vladislav Ardzinba (born May 14, 1945) is the president of the Republic of Abkhazia, a de facto independent republic of the Republic of Georgia.
		Ardzinba, a historian and former Communist, became involved in the Abkhaz independence movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		When Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia and held its first elections in 1994, Ardzinba was victorious and became the entity's first president.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Vladislav_Ardzinba.html (402 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Vladislav Ardzinba (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ardzinba drew public attention by a vigorous speech at a session of the Regional Committee of Abkhazian Communist Party.
		Vladislav Ardzinba was elected the Chairman of the Supreme Council.
		On March 1, the Abkhaz leader, Ardzinba appealed to the Council of the Heads of States of the CIS to lift all economic sanctions against Abkhazia.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Ardzinba_Vladislav_30796106.htm (532 words)

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		IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/9/1999; 123 words ; Vladislav Ardzinba was sworn in on 6 December for his second term as president of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, Caucasus Press reported...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Vladisla.html (618 words)

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		In the October 1999 elections for president of Abkhazia, Vladislav Ardzinba, the incumbent and the only candidate running for office, was reelected.
		Deputies loyal to Ardzinba won a landslide victory in the March 2002 parliamentary elections when the opposition Revival and People’s Party withdrew most of its candidates in protest over the conduct of the campaign.
		Ardzinba, who was undergoing medical treatment in Moscow for an undisclosed illness and was no longer actively involved in the daily running of the government, insisted that he had no intention of stepping down before the next presidential election in October 2004.
	www.freedomhouse.org /inc/content/pubs/fiw/inc_country_detail.cfm?year=2007&country=7313&pf (1625 words)

	Untitled Document
		Abkhazian leader Vladislav Ardzinba shared opinion at the meeting in Sukhumi with State Minister of Georgia Vazha Lortkipanidze, that visit of President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze to Abkhazia would be desirable.
		According to him, Vladislav Ardzinba expressed satisfaction with activities by session of coordinating council of January 18 in Tbilisi.
		Vladislav Ardzinba highly appreciated meeting of leaders of force structures of Abkhazia and Georgia of February 3 and the fact, that Georgian party had constructive approach to proposal by Abkhazian party to hold the similar meeting in Sukhumi, Ruslan Khashig stressed.
	www.asrios.ge /Presidental/News_events/5_feb.htm (487 words)

	S/1997/47 - REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNING THE SITUATION IN ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA
		Vladislav Ardzinba, and with Ambassador Guennady Ilitchev, Special Envoy of the First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Mr.
		Ardzinba's announcement that "parliamentary elections" were to be held on 23 November 1996.
		Ardzinba on 7 November by the Secretary-General's resident Deputy Special Envoy on behalf of the Ambassadors of the Friends of the Secretary-General on Georgia, as Mr.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1997/documentation/security/s-1997-47.htm (5086 words)

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		Ardzinba responded on 19 August by affirming his readiness to meet President Shevardnadze and stating that such talks should be based on the provisions of the declaration on measures for a political settlement of the Georgian/Abkhaz conflict of 4 April 1994 (see S/1994/397, annex I).
		Ardzinba have not yet taken place, several direct meetings between representatives of the two sides have been held at lower levels.
		Ardzinba announced his decision to hold "parliamentary elections" on 23 November 1996.
	www.un.org /french/docs/sc/s1996843.htm (3356 words)

	Abkhazia History
		In December 1990, the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet elected a new chairman, Vladislav Ardzinba, who led the non-Georgian part of the Abkhazian legislature to adopt a series of acts which further deepened the division between the Abkhaz and Georgian lawmakers.
		Vladislav Ardzinba was reelected a chairman of the Supreme Council.
		The Abkhaz separatist politicians led by Ardzinba were determined to use the opportunity of the unrest in Georgia to reinforce their power in the region and not to allow either of the conflicting Georgian parties to gain a foothold in Abkhazia.
	www.world66.com /europe/georgia/abkhazia/history (2872 words)

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		Still, the Ardzinba team was not so authoritarian that it prevented holding elections in October, the first contested elections in the region for a decade.
		Ardzinbaâs clan was telling us lies for years,â I was told by the commander of a contingent of reservists defending Abkhazia state television.
		Ardzinba's press secretary told TOL that about 800 people showed up for a meeting at which reservists declared their backing for Ardzinba.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Soviet/Georgia/041202abkhaz.txt (2947 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation
		Ardzinba who is gravely ill, most likely realizes that the end of his rule is approaching.
		Ardzinba hopes to pave the way to the presidential office for his protégé by putting artificial obstacles in the paths of other presidential hopefuls.
		For example, in mid-June the ailing Ardzinba signed the decree "Constitutional Law about the Election of President of Abkhazia," which prescribes that only a native Abkhaz, aged 35 to 65, speaking the Abkhaz language and living in Abkhazia permanently for the last five years is eligible to run for president.
	www.jamestown.org /publications_details.php?volume_id=401&issue_id=2999&article_id=2368158 (1054 words)

	communique: issue five: Gray Revolution: The War of the Clans in Abkhazia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ardzinba's seclusion from the day-to-day business of government, which in Abkhazia is the government of day-to-day business, left an enormous void.
		Ardzinba's surrogates said that this would be too rash and misinterpreted abroad - the cabinet of Genady Gagulia had only been in office for a little over four months, replacing Ardzinba's former prosecutor-general, the fairly popular Prime Minister Anri Jergenia.
		Ardzinba, who didn't get to this station in life by political innocence, could see the writing on the wall: Amtsakhara and the clans behind it wanted another weak government in its place which could be discarded as easily as Gagulia's had.
	www.diacritica.com /communique/content/issuefive/d.html (2863 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Georgian daily says infighting under way in separatist Abkhazia
		The paper stressed that the struggle is under way between the clan of former separatist leader Vladislav Ardzinba supported by vice-president Raul Khadzhimba on one side and the clan represented by de facto president Sergey Bagapsh and prime minister Aleksandr Ankvab on the other.
		Under Ardzinba, Ankvab established a public-political movement Aitaira (Revival) which became one of the significant opposition forces to Ardzinba’s government.
		The Ardzinbas’ main supporter in Bagapsh’s government is vice-president and former KGB official Raul Khadzhimba himself.
	www.eurasianet.org /insight/071207abh.shtml (1395 words)

	communique: issue five: uncivil wars: a brief history of the abkhaz war (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ardzinba, like most other leaders of the former Soviet Republics and their break-away states, reflects the era he was brought up in: the Brezhnev years.
		Ardzinba was relieved to be free of Gamsakhurdia, but it was Shevardnadze and Shevardnadze alone who launched the fatal invasion of Abkhazia on August 14, 1992.
		Ardzinba was a former academic, but he was not without ability in inspiring a spirit of sacrifice among the beleaguered Abkhaz army.
	www.diacritica.com /communique/content/issuefive/c.html (2276 words)

	June 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vladislav Ardzinba is against the implementation of the decision made during the OSCE Summit in Istanbul, according to which Russia should withdraw its military bases until July 2001.
		He believes that in the course of the CIS Summit to be held on 21 July, it would be appropriate to discuss issues related to the expansion of mandate of the Peacekeeping Forces, because the parties concerned are not ready to discuss other vital issues.
		Ardzinba, President of the self-styled republic of Abkhazia put forward initiative to meet with the President of Georgia.
	www.abkhazia-georgia.parliament.ge /News/2000/June/June_16.htm (286 words)

	A short history of Abkhazia
		In the Georgian autonomous republic of Abkhazia former communist Vladislav Ardzinba becomes in 1990 chairman of the parliament.
		Abkhazia is a presidential democratic republic and in 1994 Ardzinba becomes president of the republic.
		As Ardzinba is seriously ill since 2002 and has not appeared in public for more than two years, prime minister Raul Chajimba acts since 2003 as a de facto head of state in his absence.
	www.electionworld.org /history/abkhazia.htm (82 words)

	the BLACKSEA pages
		The Amtsakhara opposition movement claims that Ardzinba is unable to cope with the grave crime situation in Abkhazia and strengthen Abkhazia's independence.
		Vladislav Ardzinba, who is undergoing a further course of treatment in Moscow, said he would not step down before his presidential term expires in October 2004.
		Vladislav Ardzinba had to dismiss the former Premier Genadi Gagulia and the entire cabinet on April 8 after the categorical demand of the Amtsakhara movement.
	blacksea.free.fr /index.php?action=Show&page=ShowItems&itemStr=Topic&itemId=421 (119 words)

	BBC News \| MONITORING \| Breakaway region of Georgia asks CIS to lift sanctions
		The head of Georgia's self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, Vladislav Ardzinba, on Friday called on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to lift sanctions imposed on his region, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
		"The continuation of sanctions against Abkhazia is blocking normalization," Ardzinba said in a letter to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the chairman of the CIS council of heads of state.
		Ardzinba accused the CIS of taking the Georgian government's side in its conflict with Abkhazia by supporting Georgia's demand that the peacekeeping forces deployed in the region become an active security force.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/monitoring/65274.stm (234 words)

	ABKHAZIA: AT WAR WITH ITSELF
		Ardzinba and his chosen successor, Raul Khajimba, continue to insist on a rerun of the vote or completely new elections.
		But change was unavoidable as Ardzinba has been so incapacitated by illness that for the past two years he has not been seen in public, prompting speculation that he is in fact dead.
		Ardzinba’s clan was telling us lies for years,” I was told by the commander of a contingent of reservists defending Abkhazia state television.
	www.eurasianet.org /lexisnexis/4733.html (2934 words)

	Politics of Abkhazia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abkhazia's outgoing President Ardzinba claimed the decision was illegal and made under pressure from supporters of Bagapsh.
		Outgoing president Ardzinba replaced Raul Khajimba as a prime-minister with Nodar Khashba, who, before this appointment served in the Ministry for Extraordinary Situations.
		On 5 December the presidential candidates Sergei Bagapsh and Raul Khadjimba agreed to hold new elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Abkhazia (432 words)

	G II
		In March 1995, President Vladislav Ardzinba confirmed the same stand he had held during an interview on the eve of the war in 1992.
		Ardzinba was still firm about the goal of Abkhazian independence and maintenance of the present borders of the republic.
		Ardzinba's position was echoed by several other officials in Sukhumi, including the deputy foreign minister, the speaker and deputy speaker of the Parliament, and the head of the Abkhazian human rights commission.
	www.osi.hu /fmp/html/g_ii.html (2148 words)

	Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia - UN Human Rights System - All - Human Rights - Message Board - Yuku
		By noon of the 14th of August 1992, «the Georgian party» had not fired a shot, none Georgian soldier had been brought into Sokhumi yet, and nothing was threatening the peace in Abkhazian towns and villages.
		Vladislav Ardzinba declared this war on Georgia in his radio speech.
		The war ended in late September 1993 with Abkhazeti's virtual secession from Georgia through a radical ethnic cleansing of its multi-ethnic population and the destruction of its cities, including Sokhumi.Just at the beginning of the war adherents of Vladislav Ardzinba started killing, tormenting, raping, and robbing the inhabitants of Georgian nationality.
	humanrights.yuku.com /topic/537/t/Ethnic-cleansing-of-Georgians-in-Abkhazia.html?page=-1 (1302 words)

	Abkhazia: Ardzinba Under Pressure
		“President Vladislav Ardzinba is seriously ill and unable to perform his duties,” said one of the protest movement leaders Merab Kishmaria, head of Amtsakhara.
		The new crisis was triggered by Ardzinba’s appointment of former prime minister Gennady Gagulia – an unpopular figure for the veterans – as the head of the presidential administration.
		Ardzinba himself is not allowed to run for another term and is any case believed to be too sick to do so, even if he wanted to.
	www.iwpr.net /?apc_state=hruicrs200402&l=en&s=f&o=161572 (1337 words)

	ABKHAZIA.ORG
		Vladislav Ardzinba, which were conducted behind closed doors.
		In answer to a question from a correspondent from Apsny-Press on the the aim of the visit, L. Mironov said: "We have to have consultations with the government of Abkhazia to discuss the questions which have accumulated in the process of settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian dispute.
		In the view of L. Mironov, the question of the presence of the Abkhazian side at the summit is a complex one, unforeseen in the protocol governing this kind of meetings.
	www.abkhazia.org /mironov19980317.html (354 words)

	Untitled Document
		Participants of the blockade from both Georgian and Abkhazian sides, who were demanding immediate release of hostages, declared that if Sukhumi Agreement on exchange of hostages was not implemented the action at Inguri Bridge would be renewed.
		Vladislav Ardzinba declared that it was "absolutely unclear for Abkhazian side, what the information meant under the necessity of discussion of a project on political status of Abkhazia within Georgia and determination of constitutional authority between Tbilisi and Sukhumi".
		CIS working group on settlement of the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia will hold consultations on agreement of measures for comprehensive settlement of the conflict in presence of Georgian and Abkhazian sides in March.
	www.asrios.ge /Presidental/News_events/23_feb.htm (492 words)

	Georgia: Outgoing Abkhaz President Striving To Regain Political Initiative - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Vladislav Ardzinba yesterday asked lawmakers to dismiss the province's opposition-minded prosecutor-general.
		In a letter sent to parliamentary speaker Nugzar Ashuba, Ardzinba blames Korua for failing to investigate cases of alleged election fraud and for refusing to open criminal proceedings against opposition activists accused of calling for the overthrow of the government.
		In Khashig's opinion, both the suspected ban on independent newspapers and Ardzinba's attempt to dismiss the prosecutor-general testify to his desire to retake the political initiative.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/10/7e3ac8a4-f4d2-4c6a-8d58-54f142edc5c2.html (939 words)

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