Abkhazian President Dies
Vladislav Ardzinba, who was the first president of Abkhazia after a bloody conflict with Georgia in the early 1990s, died at a hospital in Moscow on Wednesday.
Ardzinba was born in Abkhazia and spends most of his life there. During the last years of the Soviet Union, he was a politician and a people’s deputy from the autonomous area.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, he led the Abkhazian Defense Committee, and because of his leadership played a crucial role in ensuring Abkhazia victory against Georgian forces at a time when the region who fought for their independence from Tbilisi.
In 1994 Ardzinba elected president of the then unknown Republic, and five years later was re-elected. In 2005 he was replaced by the current Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh.
In his last years, little Vladislav Ardzinba of a serious illness, but the exact nature of his illness was never published. 26. February, he was delivered to Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital after his health had seriously deteriorated as Abkhaz officials reported.
Ardzinba was 64 years old.
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