{"id":635,"date":"2007-08-30T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=635"},"modified":"2007-08-30T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T06:49:14","slug":"forgotten-world-99-abkhazia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (99): Abkhazia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The break-up of the former Soviet Union has led not just to 15 new independent states but to a host of territorial disputes and conflicts, some of which &#8211; like Chechnia &#8211; are well-known and others of which &#8211; such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abkhazia\">Abkhazia<\/a> &#8211; are virtually unknown.  Now Abkhazia may be formally part of Georgia and only have a population of around 180,000 but, for all practical purposes, it has been independent since a fierce civil war in the early 1990s ended in 1994 when it signed a ceasefire with Georgia.<br \/>\nUN observers and about 2,000 Russian peacekeeping troops are stationed in the territory. Although no state has officially recognised Abkhazia&#8217;s independence, Russia has been accused of supporting the breakaway region to destabilise Georgia. Moscow has issued Russian passports to around 90% of Abkhazians. The latest controversy is over Russia&#8217;s intention to import building materials from Abkhazia to help prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in neighbouring Sochi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The break-up of the former Soviet Union has led not just to 15 new independent states but to a host of territorial disputes and conflicts, some of which &#8211; like Chechnia &#8211; are well-known and others of which &#8211; such as Abkhazia &#8211; are virtually unknown. Now Abkhazia may be formally part of Georgia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}