Aslan Bzhania, the newly elected leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, was one of a handful of foreign guests to attend Vladimir Putin’s delayed victory parade in late June. But the real reason for his visit was to ask for money. Earlier this month he announced that Russia – the separatist entity’s patron — has paid none of the $65m aid package promised for the 2020-2022 period.
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A worker carries packs of 1000 rouble banknotes at a Goznak factory in Moscow on July 11, 2019.
