2012 in Abkhazia
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Events
February
- February 22 – Alexander Ankvab, president of Abkhazia, survives the sixth assassination attempt as his motorcade is ambushed on the road from Gudauta to Sukhumi.[1]
May
- May 24 — In Chuburkhinji a settlement is opened for the families of Russian border guards.[2]
- May 28 — Two policemen and one local resident sitting are shot dead in a cafe in Gali.[3]
- May 30 — 37 repatriated members of the Abkhaz diaspora and their families receive restored apartments in Machara.[4]
June
- June 4 — Valeri Kvarchia defeats Aida Ashuba in the second round of the rerun of the parliamentary election in constituency no. 21.[5]
- June 4 — The Psyrtskha power plant in New Athos is reopened after repairs that started in September 2008.[6]
- June 9 — Three prisoners escape from Dranda prison — two brothers from Shashikvara, Gali District, convicted for armed robberies and kidnapping, and one man from Grigolishi in Georgia's Zugdidi District convicted for the smuggling of weapons and drugs.[7]
- June 11 — Two of the three prisoners who escaped on 9 June are captured in Ganachleba, Gulripshi District.[8]
- June 21 — The last of the prisoners who escaped on 9 June is found dead in the Kodori river bed in Adziubzha, Ochamchira District.[9]
- June 25 — Former Interior Minister Leonid Dzapshba is indicted for the abuse of funds at his disposal as the head of the Abkhazian Football Federation.[10]
