Vladislav Ardzinba
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Vladislav Ardzinba was an Abkhaz historian and politician who served as the first de facto president of Abkhazia. Ardzinba led Abkhazia to de facto independence in the 1992–1993 War with Georgia, but
Ardzinba in 1996
Reverse side of a 10 apsar commemorative coin minted in 2008 celebrating Vladislav Ardzinba
Ardzinba on a 500 apsar commemorative banknote issued in 2018 celebrating 25 years of the victory on the 1992-93 war against Georgia
The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia, was the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Geo
Vladislav Ardzinba
…independence from Georgia remained internationally unrecognised during Ardzinba's two terms as President from 1994 to 2005. His government orchestrated ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in Abkhazia in 1993. A noted specialist in Hittitology, he was a member of the first parliament to be elected democratically in the Soviet Union in 1989…
A visitor at a gallery recognizes her dead son in a photograph on the 12th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia, 2005.