Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Window on Eurasia: Donetsk Disease Spreads to Abkhazia
Paul Goble
Staunton, May 28 – In what the Kremlin is likely to see as the most disturbing blowback of its backing of the Donetsk separatists in Ukraine, a group of veterans of the Georgian-Abkhaz war have stormed a government building in Sukhumi and demanded the resignation of that breakaway republic’s president, an indication of how easily “the Donetsk disease” can spread.
The Abkhaz opposition has been demanding a crackdown on corruption and the departure of the Abkhazian president for several months without success. On May 6, opposition leaders said they would organize “an all-people assembly” if Aleksandr Ankvab did not agree. He didn’t and yesterday, that assembly of several thousand people met Read more
