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Protesters outside an abandoned high-rise building in Sukhumi's New District on 20 January. Photo: OC Media

Abkhazia

Abandoned high-rises and housing assistance in Abkhazia

by OC Media

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In Abkhazia, vulnerable people who don’t own housing can find themselves neglected by the government, and consigned to poor living conditions. But some families, supported by the opposition, are determined to change that. Last week, protesters frustrated with cycles of rental and poverty in Sukhumi (Sukhum) took matters into their own hands, demanding financial support from the government, and calling for an abandoned building to be repurposed as housing for those in need. The approximatel

Abkhazia

Voice from Abkhazia | ‘The war robbed me of everything’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Stella Adleyba, 26, OC Media’s correspondent in Abkhazia. ‘When the war in Abkhazia began, I was only a year old. My Dad went to the front in the first days of the war, so we were left alone: my mother, my brother, and me. Of course, I don’t remember what happened in those days, but all of my life I have listened to the stories of my mother and brother about what we went through back then.’ [Read in Georgian — სტატია ქართულ ენაზე] ‘Two months after the outbreak of the war, on 22 Oct