> resign themselves to being a vassal state of russia not necessary these days the thing is that its not only cia interests and russian interests that you have in georgia anymore. there are many new players. china and turkey are also actors here and currently various interests do neutralize each other ensuring no more conflict erupts because it would hurt their investments.   your government has some kind of different plans though: russia officially suspended funding to abkhazia beginning this september:   p during the press-conference on september 3, the de-facto foreign minister of the russia-occupied abkhazia, sergei shamba confirmed that russia had suspended funding for abkhazia as of september 1. on september 1, social funding was stopped, which affects doctors, teachers, law enforcement, and so on. these are the first steps, he said, adding that abkhazia will also have to pay for electricity at commercial rates. russias move comes in the wake of tensions, following the massive public discontent in the occupied territory caused by the now withdrawn apartment law, which provided for the construction and facilitation of the purchase of thousands of apartments by non-residents in the eastern part of the occupied region. russians would have been the main beneficiaries of the legislation. it is absolutely clear that a lot of discontent has accumulated in our allies [russia] recently. the relationships have changed significantly. its not what it used to be at the beginning. i remember when i was the minister of foreign affairs, during the recognition of abkhazia, what the attitude in the russian society was like, shamba complained, adding that that attitude no longer exists.
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