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EurasiaNet Civil Society - Abkhazia: Bracing for More Trouble

EurasiaNet Civil Society - Abkhazia: Bracing for More Trouble: "Abkhazia won a de facto independence thanks to its victory in that war, and my first stop after arriving in Sukhumi is the de facto Foreign Ministry. I ask for directions from people on the street, expecting the ministry to have its own building. It turns out to be just a part of a smallish government building, sharing a floor with the de facto Finance Ministry. Inside, I find several ministry officials, all of whom are guys in their 20s, chatting about music. One is says he’s a rap music producer in his spare time; another is making plans to go to Moscow this summer to catch his favorite band, Metallica, in concert. 'Do you want to talk to the deputy foreign minister? He’s not very busy,' one of them says. "

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