Republic of Georgia Shows Trump & His Fans Depressingly Normal

... “a long historical tradition;” he then quotes Abkhazia‘s foreign minister as saying “Abkhazia has a thousand-year history of statehood since the formation in the 8th century of the Kingdom of Abkhazia. Even within the framework of ... ... Georgian protests against the Abkhaz request for separation from Georgia in 1989 which sparked the rapid acceleration of Zviad Gamsakhurdia‘s nationalist, anti-ethnic minority agenda and “radicalized” Georgian nationalism; it became more ...