MADRID 16 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 14 people have had to be hospitalized after protests this past Friday in front of the Parliament of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, ‘de facto’ independent of Georgia, against an agreement to grant projects to Russian companies.
This new balance has been provided by the Abkhazian Ministry of Health within the visit carried out this Saturday by the head of the portfolio, Eduard Butba, to the hospital where the wounded are convalescing, whose lives are not in danger.
“”Patients receive the necessary medications and receive 24-hour medical care. “All medical institutions are functioning normally,” Butba said in statements reported by the official Abkhaz agency, Apsnypress.
The protests were called by the opposition, which rejects a recent agreement that provides for the granting of several projects to Russian companies. For opponents, this agreement responds to pressure from Moscow, which previously suspended some of its subsidies to the region.
Georgia and Russia had a brief war over South Ossetia and the region of Abkhazia in 2008. After the conflict ended, Moscow, whose forces prevailed, recognized both regions as independent countries, although the vast majority of countries have not done so. fact and the Georgian Government continues to consider them autonomous regions under its own sovereignty.