Shrinking Russian Subsidies Could Stoke Another Political Crisis In Georgia’s Abkhazia – OpEd

Aslan Bzhania, the newly elected leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, was one of a handful of foreign guests to attend Vladimir Putin’s delayed victory parade in late June. But the real reason for his visit was to ask for money. Earlier this month he announced that Russia – the separatist entity’s patron...