The words of Abkhazian leader Aslan Bzhania about Russia's intention to build a new base for the Black Sea Fleet in Ochamchira are both an indirect recognition that Moscow has come to terms with the loss of Sevastopol as the main base of its naval forces in the Black Sea, and a new threat to Georgia.
"The growing role of Russia in the South Caucasus and the decline of the influence of the West is a particularly dangerous process for pro-Western Georgia"
Inal Khashig and Astamur Tania discuss January arrests of the opposition members in Abkhazia and whether such repressions can help stabilize the situation and prevent the storming of the presidential palace?
"In the second Karabakh war, Russia surpassed the West. The "new" world is the "Russian world", and the West is even more excluded from the sphere of conflict resolution"
