Malkhaz Akishbaia ( Abkhaz: Малхас Акшба,

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: მალხაზ აკიშბაია; born May 6, 1972) is an Abkhaz politician and the Chairman of Council of Ministers of the ''

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(GARA) from March 2006 to June 2009. Born in Gudava, Gali district,

Abkhaz ASSR The Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Абхазская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; ka, აფხაზეთის ავტონომიური ს� ...

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, in 1972, Akishbaia graduated from

Kiev University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

in 1994 and finished his master's degree at

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. He worked for the ministries of economics (1999–2001) and defense (2004) and for the National Security Council of Georgia (2004). From December 2004 to March 2006, he served as a minister of finances within the GARA and became the chair of this government in March 2006. His government was in exile in Tbilisi after the war with

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in August 2008. He resigned on June 11, 2009,Head of Tbilisi-based Abkhaz Gov’t Resigns
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''. June 11, 2009 and was succeeded by

Giorgi Baramia Giorgi Baramia ( ka, გიორგი ბარამია) (born 25 February 1966) is a Georgia (country), Georgian diplomat and the chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (-Government in exile, in exile) from June 1 ...

as the chairman of the GARA. Akishbaia was later appointed deputy Minister of Agriculture of Georgia.

References

External links

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Profile: Malkhaz Akishbaia
Guardian News. Retrieved May 2, 2009.
Malkhaz Akishbaia accuses Russian militants of violating human right
Georgian Times; (2009.02.04). Retrieved May 2, 2009.

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