Igor Akhba

Igor Achba ( Abkhaz Игор Мурат - иҧа Ахба / Igor Murat- ipa Achba; Russian Игорь Муратович Ахба / Igor Muratowitsch Achba; born February 5, 1949 in Sukhumi, USSR ) is an Abkhaz politician and diplomat. He was in 2004 a short time Foreign Minister of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and since 2009, its first ambassador to Russia.

1971 closed Achba his studies at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University from 1975 and his postgraduate study at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the subject of state and international law. From 1976 to 1989 he worked as a research associate in the Moscow Lenin Library. From 1989 to 1992 he was the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Achba participated in the founding of the Society of Abkhaz culture, as well as a newspaper and an Abkhaz Abkhaz Sunday School in Moscow. In 1992 he became the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, which had declared this year for independent, appointed as official representatives of Abkhazia in the Russian Federation. After the resignation of Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba, the Abkhaz in the summer of 2004, Igor Achba returned to take over the office to Abkhazia. In December 2004, he had, however, at the behest of the newly elected Abkhaz president Sergei Bagapsh his new office to cede back to Shamba. Achba then returned to Moscow. After the recognition of Abkhaz independence by the Russian government in August 2008, he was officially Ambassador of Abkhazia in Russia.

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Stanislav Lakoba: Abchazija posle dvuch imperij XIX -XXI vv. Materik, Moskva 2004, ISBN 5-85646-146-0, pp. 155f.

Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Abkhazia )
Ambassador to Russia
Born in 1949
Man
Abkhaz
Soviet citizens

Russian Academy of Sciences Russian State Library Soviet (council)

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