Word: sukhumi
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...thousands -- in horse-drawn carts stacked high with clothes and furniture; on bicycles balancing precarious bundles; on foot, arms laden with any belongings they can carry. Since Abkhazian rebels broke a Russian- mediated cease-fire and drove Georgian forces out of the Black Sea region, seizing its capital, Sukhumi, an estimated 200,000 Georgians are thought to have been uprooted. Some have been trudging for days through the bitter-cold, snow-covered mountains of the Caucasus, headed mainly into cities of western Georgia. In Sukhumi the Abkhazian insurgents are accused of having carried out mass ''ethnic cleansing,'' looting and plundering...
...governed by Halliburton.” Shteyngart drew inspiration from his travels throughout the former Soviet Union, and in particular, by a place he visited in his childhood.“When I was growing up in Leningrad, we would go down to Georgia and to this town called Sukhumi, which felt like a Soviet Disneyland,” he said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Georgia and many other parts of the former Soviet Union collapsed into civil war after its dissolution, which prevented Shteyngart from returning until just recently. “I was hanging...
...region caution that the war talk is exaggerated, though not entirely. "The Abkhaz do have cause for concern," says a senior U.N. military expert. The risks of a new conflict are high, and top Georgian generals are "exuberant," speaking of a lightning strike that will have them in Sukhumi, the capital, within 24 hours, according to one observer. Any war would certainly be tougher than that, and there is no guarantee Georgia would win. The Abkhaz are determined fighters who would be defending their own homes. Help from Russian volunteers cannot be ruled out, says Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba...