The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful dialogue of European and international issues. You are invited to post comments and your own articles.
Please REGISTER to post.
St the beginning of 20th Century, Greek community (100.000 in 1989) settled down in Georgian coast, some of them around the port of Sujumi (14.000 in 1989). When the civil war started in 1992, the fled the country; they got the support of Greek government, that even provided planes to take them out of Sujumi (the capital of Abkhazia).
However, they didn't do so well in Greece. Most of them didn't speak Greek, didn't have more than distant relativesin Greece and hadn't perspectives. So a significative part of them came back to Abkhazia... To Abkhazia, a place that lost half of its population, that has a pro-Abjhaz nationalist attitude, that is siolated politically and economically (well, the Russian border is quite changeable in that sense...). A place in which in 1998, according to a report a read, the second economic source was selling to Turkey (I suppose that through informal channels) the marble from the tombs of the Georgian cementeries, having most of the Georgian community left the area. "If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." (Fahrenheit 451)
by gmoke - Nov 30
by gmoke - Nov 24
by gmoke - Nov 7
by gmoke - Nov 11
by Oui - Jan 19
by Oui - Jan 17
by Oui - Jan 16
by Oui - Jan 15
by Oui - Jan 151 comment
by Oui - Jan 14
by Oui - Jan 141 comment
by Oui - Jan 132 comments
by Oui - Jan 133 comments
by Oui - Jan 13
by gmoke - Jan 138 comments
by Oui - Jan 12
by Oui - Jan 122 comments
by Oui - Jan 11
by Oui - Jan 112 comments
by Oui - Jan 10
by Oui - Jan 101 comment
by Oui - Jan 9