Abkhazia’s Leader Dies in Moscow

Bagapsh Sergei Bagapsh, the “perfect president” who governed Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia for the past six years, died of heart failure in a Moscow hospital early Sunday. He was 62. Bagapsh’s sudden death might spell changes for local Abkhaz politics, but foreign policy analysts said it would not upset Abkhazia’s strategic alliance with Russia, […]