{"id":2139,"date":"2016-08-16T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2016-08-17T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T10:12:11","slug":"abkhaz-deputy-prime-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"Abkhaz Deputy Prime Minister Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RFE\/RL<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2140\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Shamil-Adzynba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Shamil-Adzynba.jpg\" alt=\"Shamil Adzynba\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Shamil-Adzynba.jpg 640w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Shamil-Adzynba-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shamil Adzynba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shamil Adzynba has resigned as the de facto first deputy prime minister of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia.<\/p>\n<p>Abkhaz leader Raul Khajimba accepted Adzynba&#8217;s resignation on August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Adzynba said he was not &#8220;content with the way things are at the moment&#8221; and &#8220;found it impossible to stay&#8221; in his post.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his resignation is not related to new Prime Minister Beslan Bartsits taking office.<\/p>\n<p>Adzynba also served briefly as acting prime minister after the resignation of Artur Mikvabiya on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>Adzynba said part of his decision to leave office was due to the failure to enforce the Abkhaz region&#8217;s language law, which states that politicians must be able to speak the Abkhaz language.<\/p>\n<p>He said many of the new officials in Bartsits&#8217;s government do not meet this requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Adzynba said he will run next year in a seat for the unrecognized state&#8217;s self-declared assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Russia recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway territory, South Ossetia, as independent states after a brief war against Georgia in 2008. Moscow has thousands of troops in the regions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Based on reporting by Interfax and RIA Novosti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>RFE\/RL Shamil Adzynba has resigned as the de facto first deputy prime minister of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia. Abkhaz leader Raul Khajimba accepted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=2139\" title=\"Abkhaz Deputy Prime Minister Resigns\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}