http://www.documentaire.com/caucasus/Abkhazia.html1998 travelogue from the breakaway state.The last Soviet census of 1989 shows that ethnic Abkhaz are a minority in their own region inside Georgia. In the tumult of the Soviet collapse, the Abkhaz feared cultural extinction inside Georgia. In July 1992 the Abkhaz Supreme Soviet voted for independence. In August Georgian troops entered
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UN-sponsored talks between the Abkhaz leader, Vladislav Ardzinba, and the Georgian Foreign Minister, Irakli Menagarashvili, are taking place in Geneva.