On May 17, an Abkhazian Embassy opened in Moscow. Participating in the ceremony were Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko and Andrei Kelin of the Foreign Ministry’s CIS Affairs Department, as well as Akhazian Foreign Minister Maxim Gvinjia and Ambassador to Moscow Igor Akhba, Interfax reports.

Russian parliamentarians and the heads of diplomatic missions of South Ossetia, Nicaragua and Syria attended the ceremony as well.

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