Raul Khadjimba

Raul Khadzhimba ( Abkhaz Рауль Џьумка - иҧа Ҳаџьымба / Raul Dschumkka - ipa Hadschymba; Russian Рауль Джумкович Хаджимба / Raul Dschumkowitsch Khadzhimba; Georgian რაულ ხაჯიმბა; born March 21, 1958 in Tkvarcheli, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union ) is an Abkhaz politician. From 2003 to 2004 he was Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009 and Vice President of the disputed Republic of Abkhazia in Georgia.

Life

Khadzhimba attended until 1975, the school in Tkvarcheli. He then worked as a mechanic at the local power plant. From 1976 to 1978 he did his military service in the Soviet Army. After that, he worked in his learned profession in the Kurhaus " Gumista " at Sukhumi. In 1984, he completed a degree in law at the Abkhaz State University. He then worked briefly in the legal department of an Abkhaz chemical plant. In the following years he completed his training at the Minsk KGB school for academics and was thereafter to 1992 employees of the local KGB branch of his hometown Tkvarcheli.

During the armed conflict in Abkhazia in the years 1992 to 1993, he worked on the side of independence-minded Abkhazians in military reconnaissance. After the war he worked in the newly formed Abkhaz State Security Service, and from 1996 to 1999 in a leading position in the Abkhaz customs authority. Khadzhimba was from 1999 to 2001 head of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

From 2001 to 2002 he was Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-2003 Minister of Defence of Abkhazia. On 22 April 2003, he was appointed Prime Minister, acted as de facto head of state, President Vladislav Ardzinba was because seriously ill and no longer appeared in public since 2002. In the summer of 2004, he resigned as Prime Minister to take up as a candidate in the Abkhaz presidential elections.

On October 3, he was defeated at the Abkhaz presidential elections the opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh despite support from his predecessor Ardzinba and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had received him at his summer residence in Sochi on August 30. The choice was repeated for forgery allegations on 12 January 2005. This Bagapsh and Khadzhimba competed together. Pursuant to an agreement they wanted to share power. Both won the election with a clear majority. As previously agreed Bagapsh President and Vice President Khadzhimba.

On 28 May 2009 Khadzhimba announced his resignation as vice president and criticized the current government under President Bagapsh. Observers suspected behind this distancing from Bagapsh a tactical maneuver to improve his chances in the upcoming presidential elections in December 2009, in which he, however, clearly succumbed to the incumbent.