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      <text>Abkhazia President Aslan Bzhania resigns following negotiations with the opposition. Vice President Badra Gunba takes over as acting president. </text>
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    <text>Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania resigns following negotiations with the opposition and is succeeded by Vice President Badra Gunba as acting president. </text>
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    <text>Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses &quot;shock and deep concern&quot; after a Georgian citizen, 31-year-old Giga Otkhozoria, was shot dead by Russian Armed Forces troops patrolling areas near the administrative boundary with Abkhazia. </text>
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    <text>Opposition in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia takes over the government headquarters, forcing President Alexander Ankvab to flee the capital, Sukhumi. </text>
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    <text>Tuvalu withdraws its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after re-establishing diplomatic relations with Georgia. </text>
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    <text>A senior Russian diplomat is gunned down in Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. </text>
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    <text>Alexander Ankvab is elected President of partially recognized Abkhazia during elections held on August, 26. The elections are characterised by the Western media and independent observers as &quot;democratic&quot;, but not recognized by Georgia.</text>
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    <text>Sergei Bagapsh, the President of the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia, dies from complications of lung surgery in Moscow. </text>
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    <text>The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague dismisses by 10-6 Georgia's accusation that Russia and separatist rebels engaged in ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. </text>
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    <text>Russia announces that it has deployed S-300 anti-aircraft missiles in Abkhazia; the Georgian government expresses concern. </text>
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    <text>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Abkhazia on his first visit there since the territory declared independence from Georgia two years ago. </text>
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  <text>Acting leader of Abkhazia Badra Gunba is elected President of Abkhazia with 55% of the votes. Georgia rejects the election, as it claims Abkhazia as part of its territory. </text>
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