Translated material
Ankvab has become more expensive
The Prime Minister of Abkhazia was saved by an armored jeep
Abkhazian Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab cannot be killed by a bullet, a land mine, or a grenade. Yesterday, a new attempt was made on the 54-year-old head of government of the unrecognized republic - the fourth since his appointment to this post in February 2005. A shell fired from a grenade launcher at a service jeep on the Gudauta-Sukhumi highway at 8.15 a.m. hit the trunk of the car. Shell-shocked and receiving shrapnel wounds, the prime minister left the hospital a few hours later and went home. “I feel tolerable,” he told Vremya Novostey. “Let the law enforcement agencies deal with the leads.” Secretary of the Abkhaz Security Council Stanislav Lakoba said: “The shooter was a professional, the prime minister was wounded in the back. Most of the fragments were stuck in the back of the seat. The driver was also injured.” Ankvab was saved by the fact that the jeep was armored.Ill-wishers are hunting for Ankvab stubbornly and unsuccessfully. In February and April 2005, his car was fired at from machine guns on the same Gudauta-Sukhumi highway (at that time the prime minister was still using an ordinary Volga, and a miracle saved him, after which he switched to an armored car). Then a reward of 150 thousand rubles was announced. for help in solving the case, but this did not help find the perpetrators. Now the reward amount has been increased to half a million.
Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh, who met with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov in Moscow yesterday, urgently interrupted his visit to Russia due to the assassination attempt on the prime minister and returned to Sukhumi. The authorities of the unrecognized republic said yesterday that “external forces” are interested in eliminating the prime minister. However, it is worth considering that there are also mafia clans in the republic that do not like the tough policies of the prime minister.