Raul Hadschimba

Raul Hadschimba

Raul Khajimba ( Abkhaz Рауль Џьумка-иҧа Ҳаџьымба / Raul Dschumkka-ipa Hadschymba; Russian Рауль Джумкович Хаджимба / Raul Dschumkowitsch Khadzhimba, Georgian რაულ ხაჯიმბა * 21st March 1958 in Tkvarcheli , Abkhaz ASSR , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Abkhazian politicians. From 2003 to 2004 he was Prime Minister and from 2005 to 2009 Vice President of the disputed Republic of Abkhazia in the Caucasus , from 2014 to 2020 he was President of the small republic.

Life

Chadschimba attended school in Tkwartscheli until 1975. He then worked as a locksmith in the local power station. From 1976 to 1978 he did his military service in the Soviet Army . Afterwards he worked in his learned profession in the health resort "Gumista" near Sochumi. In 1984, he graduated in law at the Abkhaz State University from. He then worked for a short time in the legal department of an Abkhaz chemical company. In the following years he completed an apprenticeship at the Minsk KGB school for academics and then worked for the local KGB branch in his hometown Tkwartscheli until 1992.

During the armed conflict over Abkhazia from 1992 to 1993, he worked on the side of the Abkhazians striving for independence in military intelligence . After the end of the war he worked in the newly formed Abkhaz State Security Service and from 1996 to 1999 in a leading position in the Abkhaz customs authorities. Khadjimba was the head of the Abkhaz State Security Service from 1999 to 2001.

Political career

From 2001 to 2002 he was Deputy Prime Minister, from 2002 to 2003 Defense Minister of Abkhazia. On April 22, 2003 he was appointed prime minister and acted as de facto head of state because President Wladislaw Ardsinba was seriously ill and has not appeared in public since 2002. In the summer of 2004, he resigned as prime minister to run as a candidate in the Abkhaz presidential elections.

On October 3, he was defeated by the opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsch in the Abkhaz presidential elections, despite the support of his predecessor Ardsinba and Russian President Vladimir Putin , who received him in his summer residence in Sochi on August 30. The election was repeated on January 12, 2005 on charges of fraud. Bagapsch and Chadschimba competed together. According to an agreement, they wanted to share power. Both won the election with a clear majority. As previously agreed, Bagapsch became President and Chadschimba became Vice-President.

On May 28, 2009, Khadjimba announced his resignation as Vice President and criticized the incumbent government under President Bagapsch. Observers suspected that this distancing from Bagapsch was a tactical maneuver to improve his chances in the upcoming presidential elections in December 2009 , in which he was clearly defeated by the incumbent.

Khadjimba also ran in the 2011 presidential election in Abkhazia , defeating Alexander Ankwab there again before he was elected president in Abkhazia in 2014 and re-elected in 2019, but the election was canceled by the Supreme Court's cassation authority in January 2020. On January 13, 2020, Khadjimba signed a letter of resignation, and the electoral commission set new elections for March 22, 2020. Hadschimba declared that she would not run for the election.

literature

• Chadschimba Raul Dschumkowitsch (short biography). In: Chegemskaya Pravda . No. 42 (266), November 17, 2009, p. 4.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The court annulled the presidential election results in Abkhazia , Interfax, January 10, 2020
2. ↑ Raul Khadjimba will not run again for the presidency of Abkhazia , Interfax, January 13, 2020