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Distro - Abkhazia - A Vacation In A Non-Existent Country. 2005 

Jonas Bendiksen 

In Soviet days, Abkhazia was one of the USSR's premier beach resorts, attracting the most well-connected apparatchiks and quota-fulfilling factory directors to a coastline known as the Riviera of the Caucasus. Lying in the northwest corner of the former Soviet republic of Georgia on a
mountainous stretch of Black Sea coastline, it is the homeland of about 100,000 ethnic Abkhaz.

Just as Georgia seceded from the Soviet Union during the Soviet collapse, Abkhazia broke away from Georgia itself in 1992. The two parties fought a brief but very bloody war, in which more than 10,000 people were killed.... 

Jonas Bendiksen 2005

GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Although Abkhazia is isolated,... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. My passport with the visa for Abkhazia,... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. During the 1993 war with Georgia,... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Babushka "Tanya," an elderly... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Babushka Tanya's run down apartment.... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Babushka Tanya's run down apartment.... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Babushka Tanya's run down apartment.... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Babushka Tanya in front her... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. I took this in on a pier outside Sukhumi,... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Gagra. 2005. People sailing out on the Black... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. A girl steps over a puddle surrounded... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. A residential area of Sukhum.... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Gagra. 2005. A Russian tourist girl in a Soviet-era... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Gagra 2005. Checking in at the Soviet-era... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. A boy dives off an abandoned... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. An abandoned crane doubles as... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. An abandoned crane doubles as... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Half-abandoned apartment building.... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Pitsunda. 2005. This prime beach resort town... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. With its lush Black Sea location, Abkhazia... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. A stuffed bear shows his fangs while... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. With its lush Black Sea location, Abkhazia... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. With its lush Black Sea location, Abkhazia... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Two men taking an evening stroll... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. The damaged "People's Assembly... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Damaged apartment building on... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. A man with Tuberculosis. Abkhazia has... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Damaged building. 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Damaged housing block. 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Kids playing outside an apartmnet... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. A Russian tourist, dressed in a "USSR"... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. 2005. A woman hauls her goods across the bridge... 

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GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhum. 2005. Freight vessel lies at ancor... 

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