Valery Arshba

Valery Shalvovich Arshba ( Abkhazian Валери Аршба , Russian Валерий Шалвович Аршба ; born October 4, 1949 in Tkwartscheli , Abkhazian ASSR , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Abkhazian politician and former Republic of the Republic of Asia not recognized internationally .

Valeri Arschba studied from 1967 to 1972 at the Moscow State University industrial engineering . After graduation, he returned to his hometown and worked for a local construction company. From 1973 to 1974 he did his military service in the Red Army , where he was stationed in Czechoslovakia . After that he worked again in a commercial enterprise. From 1975 he worked in the industry and transport division of the newspaper Tkwartschelski gornjak . From 1977 to 1979 he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Economics of the Abkhazian Institute for Language, Literature and History. From 1979 he worked for the municipal department of the CPSU in Sukhumi and later for the branch of the Abkhaz ASSR.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Arshba first worked as an editor for the newspaper Respublika Abkhazia . In 1992 he was in the Abkhazian "War of Independence" against the troops of the Georgian central government. From 1993 to 1994 Arshba was the official representative of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Russian republic of Adygeja . In 1995 he became Vice President of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia under President Wladislaw Ardsinba . Assba initially wanted to run in the 2004 presidential elections, but withdrew his application before the polls. After the election he became head of the presidential administration under the newly elected President Sergei Bagapsch .

literature

• Stanislav Lakoba: Abchazija posle dvuch imperij XIX-XXI vv. Materik, Moskva 2004, ISBN 5-85646-146-0 , pp. 153f.