Nugzar Nuri-ipa Ashuba ( Abkhaz: Нугзар Нури-иҧа Ашәба, ka, ნუგზარ აშუბა) is a senior politician from

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. He was Minister of Culture from 1986 until 1992 and the first Chairman of the State Repatriation Committee from 1992 until 1995. He was elected to the People's Assembly of Abkhazia in the 2002 elections, and he was elected Speaker on 3 April 2002 with 23 votes in favour, 10 against and 1 abstention. Ashuba was re-elected in 2007 both as Deputy and as Speaker, but suffered a first-round loss in the 2012 elections. When President Sergei Bagapsh died in 2011, and Vice President Alexander Ankvab participated in the subsequent Presidential election, Ashuba acted as President. On 29 October 2013, he was appointed Security Council Secretary by President Alexander Ankvab to succeed

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, who had been dismissed the previous day. On 4 June 2014, following the forced resignation of Ankvab as President in the

2014 Abkhazian political crisis The Abkhazian Revolution took place in 2014, when President Aleksandr Ankvab resigned after hundreds of demonstrators stormed his office. After mass protests in the capital Sukhumi and the occupation of his office on 27 May, Ankvab fled to his h ...

, Ashuba resigned as Security Council Secretary along with Presidential Administration Head

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, accusing the opposition of carrying out a witch hunt and imposing its decisions on the interim authorities.

Early life

Nugzar Ashuba was born on March 2, 1952, in the village of Ghvada, Ochamchira District, and is married with two children.

References

1952 births Living people People from Ochamchira District 3rd convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia 4th convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia Ministers for Culture of Abkhazia Secretaries of the Security Council of Abkhazia {{Abkhazia-poli-stub