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Abkhazia-Georgia: 25 Years After War — Special Report

Hromadske travels to the contact line between Georgia and its breakaway province of Abkhazia on 25th anniversary of the war between the two. “Nothing changes here. Everything has stood still. One government replaces another. Nothing good ever happens here”. That’s how Terenti Kvaratskhelia, an owner of a cafe near the checkpoint at the Enguri Bridge, describes the situation at the de-facto Abkhazia-Georgia border. It has been 25 years since the beginning of the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992-1993, that killed around 20,000 ee and displaced 250,000. Neighboring Russia supported the Abkhaz separatists, and in 2008 the region became fully occupied by the Russian army. This conflict has been frozen for almost a quarter of a century now, but for those who live there, it seems as though nothing has really changed. On one side, there are those who decided to stay in the occupied, unrecognized territory. On the other, there are displaced people who, for decades now, have been living in houses that don’t really belong to them. Hromadske spent four days on the boundary line between Russian-occupied Abkhazia and the other part of Georgia to find out what is happening in the ‘frozen zone’.