Maxim Gvinjia
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Maxim Gvinjia Максим Ӷәынџьиа მაქსიმ ღვინჯია | |
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| 7th Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia | |
| In office 26 February 2010 – 11 October 2011 | |
| President | Sergei Bagapsh Alexander Ankvab |
| Prime Minister | Sergei Shamba |
| Preceded by | Sergei Shamba |
| Succeeded by | Viacheslav Chirikba |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 March 1976 (age 48) Sukhumi |
| Alma mater | Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages |
Maxim Gvinjia (Template:Lang-ab, Georgian: მაქსიმ ღვინჯია) is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia. Before he was appointed on 26 February 2010 to replace Sergei Shamba,[1] Gvinjia had served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1 March 2004.[2]
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.[3]
In 2014, Éric Baudelaire directed a documentary film, Letters to Max,[4] 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.[5][6]
References
- ^ "New Abkhaz FM Appointed". Civil Georgia. 26 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ "Предыдущие Министры и их Заместители". 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ "Заместители". 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ "Letters to Max. 2014. Directed by Eric Baudelaire | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
- ^ "Cinema Scope | Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire, France)". cinema-scope.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
- ^ Thomas de Waal (26 April 2018). "Uncertain territory. The strange life and curious sustainability of de facto states". New Eastern Europe. Retrieved 22 June 2018.