Maxim Gvinjia ( ab, Максим Ӷәынџьиа, ka, მაქსიმ ღვინჯია) is the former
Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, ka, აფხაზეთი, tr, , xmf, აბჟუა, abzhua, or ( or ), officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, recognised by most countries as part of Georgia, which vi ...
. Before he was appointed on 26 February 2010 to replace
Sergei Shamba,
Gvinjia had served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1 March 2004.
Early life and career
Gvinjia was born on 13 March 1976 in
Sukhumi. In 1998, he graduated from the Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages in
Ukraine. Gvinjia is a member of the Abkhazian Committee to Ban
Land Mines and has written a number of papers on the subject.
In 2014,
Éric Baudelaire
Éric Baudelaire (born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is a Franco-American artist and filmmaker.
Early life and education
Éric Baudelaire was born in Salt Lake City. He grew up in France, returned to the United States in 1991, to attend B ...
directed a documentary film, ''Letters to Max'', based on a correspondence with Gvinjia, to whom Baudelaire sent a series of letters from Paris to test whether the French postal system would deliver mail to a state it doesn't recognize. Gvinjia received many of the letters, and responded with voice recordings that became the voiceover for the film.
See also
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References
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Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia
Living people
People from Sukhumi
1976 births