As the Abkhaz people gather in their capital, Sukhumi, they are exhibiting popular support for an independence movement that took root decades ago when the region was an autonomous republic within ...

During the Soviet era the Abkhaz polity predominantly existed as an “autonomous republic” within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1931-1992 ...

Eighty-one-year-old Nikolai Khasig was born in Sukhumi in 1932. It was just one year after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin stripped Abkhazia of its short-lived status as a full-fledged republic of ...

1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev allows Chechens back to the Caucasus, restores the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechnya declares ...

It was made part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936, but retained its self-determination, becoming the only autonomous republic in Soviet Central Asia.

1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev allows Chechens back to the Caucasus, restores the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechnya declares ...