Igor Achba

Igor Achba (left) with Dmitri Medvedev

Igor Achba ( Abkhazian Игор Мурат-иҧа Ахба / Igor Murat-ipa Achba ; Russian Игорь Муратович Ахба / Igor Muratowitsch Achba ; born February 5, 1949 in Sukhumi , Soviet Union ) is an Abkhazian politician and diplomat. In 2004 he was Foreign Minister of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia for a short time and has been its first ambassador to Russia since 2009 .

1971 closed Achba graduated from the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University , and in 1975 his postgraduate at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the subject State - and international law . From 1976 to 1989 he worked as a research assistant in the Moscow Lenin Library . From 1989 to 1992 he was an advisor to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Achba participated in the founding of the Society for Abkhazian Culture, as well as an Abkhaz newspaper and an Abkhaz Sunday school in Moscow. In 1992 he was appointed the official representative of Abkhazia in the Russian Federation by the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, which had declared itself independent that year. After the resignation of the Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba in the summer of 2004, Igor Achba returned to Abkhazia to take over his office. In December 2004, however, at the behest of the newly elected Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsch , he had to resign his new office to Shamba. Achba then returned to Moscow. After the Russian government recognized Abkhazia's independence in August 2008, he also officially became Abkhazia's ambassador to Russia.

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• Stanislav Lakoba: Abchazija posle dvuch imperij XIX-XXI vv. Materik, Moskva 2004, ISBN 5-85646-146-0 , pp. 155f.