Abkhazia, Georgia, Russian Federation, De-facto states, Official peace process

The goal of our text is to analyze Russia?s role during the transformation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict during the years 1992-2008. Major milestones of the official peace process are set in the context of Russian-Georgian relations. We then proceed to the analysis of the internal changes within the Russian Federation at the turn of the millennium and try to find a connection between this internal transformation of Russia and the transformation of the conflict in Abkhazia.