Nugzar Nuri-ipa Ashuba ( Abkhaz : Нугзар Нури-иҧа Ашәба, Georgian : ნუგზარ აშუბა ) is a senior politician from Abkhazia . 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 Stanislav Lakoba , who had been dismissed the previous day.
5-427: On 4 June 2014, following the forced resignation of Ankvab as President in the 2014 Abkhazian political crisis , Ashuba resigned as Security Council Secretary along with Presidential Administration Head Beslan Kubrava , accusing the opposition of carrying out a witch hunt and imposing its decisions on the interim authorities. Nugzar Ashuba was born on March 2, 1952, in the village of Ghvada , Ochamchira District , and
10-449: Is married with two children. This Abkhazian biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the politics of Abkhazia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
15-522: The Ankvab administration allowed ethnic Georgians to register as voters and receive Abkhazian passports. The revolution led to an early presidential election being called in August 2014. Opposition leader Raul Khajimba was elected president with a narrow majority of the vote. In May 2011, Sergei Bagapsh died in office, leading to the 2011 presidential election . Alexander Ankvab won with 54.9% of
20-511: The capital Sukhumi and the occupation of his office on 27 May, Ankvab fled to his hometown of Gudauta and ultimately resigned on 1 June, after previously denouncing the demonstration as an attempted coup d'état . The uprising was attributed to public anger with Ankvab over his perceived liberal policy toward ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia , a breakaway republic with limited recognition . Although Abkhazia seceded from Georgia in 1992,
25-468: The votes. In late April 2014, the opposition submitted a 5 May ultimatum to President Ankvab to dismiss the government and make radical reforms. On 27 June 2016, following a request by the opposition, the Prosecutor's Office published its assessment of the events surrounding Ankvab's resignation, and declared that it found no criminal actions to investigate. On 30 June, opposition leaders criticised
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