Daur Tarba

In 1991, Tarba was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia.^[2]

After the election of Sergei Bagapsh as president of Abkhazia, Tarba was appointed head of the State Committee for State Property and Privatisation 24 February 2005.^[3] On 3 April 2007 Tarba was appointed head of the Ochamchira District.^[4] On 18 December 2008 Tarba was at his own request released from this post,^[5] and on 27 January 2009, during the congress in which the socio-political movement United Abkhazia was transformed into a political party, Tarba became its new chairman.^[6]

After the re-election of Sergei Bagapsh as president, Tarba was appointed Vice Premier on 24 February 2010.^[7] However, on 25 February 2011, Tarba announced that he was resigning, without specifying a reason.^[8] His resignation was approved by President Bagapsh on 4 March.^[9] On 30 March, he was succeeded by Minister for Taxes and Levies Vakhtang Pipia.^[10]

Tarba resigned as Chairman of United Abkhazia on 1 October 2015 in a letter to its political council, in which he identified excessive formalism and a lack of internal political debates, and called for the party's rejuvenation. The political council accepted his resignation and appointed Aleksei Tania as acting Chairman.^[11]

In the sidelines of the party congress that followed Tarba's resignation, it was said that Tarba had resigned specifically to make room for his successor, long-time friend, former Prime Minister and sitting MP Sergei Shamba.^[12]

On 24 August 2016, Tarba was appointed Agriculture Minister in the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Beslan Bartsits, succeeding Timur Eshba.^[13]

Tarba received the Order of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after serving there with the Soviet Army. He also received a Pride of Russia medal in honor of the 200th anniversary of Abkhazia’s entry into the Russian Empire. He has also been awarded the Order of "Akhdz-Apsha" of the third degree, and is a Knight of the Order of Peter the Great of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.^[2]