Maxim Gvinjia ( ab, Максим Ӷәынџьиа, ka, მაქსიმ ღვინჯია) is the former
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of
Abkhazia. Before he was appointed on 26 February 2010 to replace
Sergei Shamba
Sergei Shamba ( ab, Сергеи Шамба, ka, სერგეი შამბა) is a senior politician from Abkhazia. He is currently a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia and Chairman of United Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister of A ...
,
Gvinjia had served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1 March 2004.
Early life and career
Gvinjia was born on 13 March 1976 in
Sukhumi
Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of ...
. In 1998, he graduated from the Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages in
Ukraine
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. Gvinjia is a member of the Abkhazian Committee to Ban
Land Mines
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and has written a number of papers on the subject.
In 2014,
Éric Baudelaire directed a documentary film, ''Letters to Max'', based on a correspondence with Gvinjia, to whom Baudelaire sent a series of letters from Paris to test whether the French postal system would deliver mail to a state it doesn't recognize. Gvinjia received many of the letters, and responded with voice recordings that became the voiceover for the film.
See also
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References
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Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia
Living people
People from Sukhumi
1976 births