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Putin’s portrait for Abkhaz schools

2009-10-15 22:59 As they have told the correspondent of Kavkazskiy Uzel, they feel "between a rock and a hard place".

Should their Abkhazian passports be considered, they are going to have troubles with the Georgian authorities while traveling to their relatives. If the passports are not considered they have no rights in their own homes. Thus, they prefer not to reveal their problems "for the sake of their own safety".

As to the restless "alternative government", it uses every chance to aggravate the situation and craft a negative image of the Russian military. At the beginning of September the authorities told about the Russians having pulled away a welcoming banner in Georgian in the village of Nabakevi after blocking the access to one of the schools.

Another time, Tbilissian henchmen complained that the border guards were catching schoolchildren that went from Abkhazia to the Georgian schools.

At that time, the Abkhazian Permanent Representative to the Galskiy region Ruslan Kishmaria explained to GeorgiaTimes that the point at issue was the illegal border crossing, which was dangerous even from the standpoint of the children's safety. Besides, the schoolchildren from the Gaskiy region have no need to go to Georgia, for there are enough Georgian schools in the republic.

The previous evening, another scandal broke out: Russian border guards detained a passenger bus with the Georgians in the village of Otobaya of the Galskiy region. So long as they had neither Abkhazian, nor Russian documents, they were detained and fined for illegal border crossing.

Such incidents cause protest of the Abkhazian pseudo-government in Georgia. It refuses to treat Abkhazia as a separate independent state that lives according to its own laws different from the Georgian ones. Well, that is the reason why the unlucky government is sheltering in Tbilisi instead of Sukhum.

 

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