FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the Black Sea port of Sukhumi (Sukhum), the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia September 8, 2024. REUTERS/Igor Onuchin/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leader of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia called for an emergency security council meeting after protests in the biggest city, Russia's TASS state news agency reported on Tuesday.
Russia recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, as independent states in 2008 after Russian troops repelled a Georgian attempt to retake South Ossetia in a five-day war which ended on August 12, 2008.
