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Abkhaz leader Bagapsh dies in Moscow hospital

The leader of Abkhazia, a separatist region of Georgia aligned with Russia, died Sunday in a Moscow hospital where he was being treated for lung cancer. He was 62.Sergei Bagapsh underwent successful surgery on his right lung on May 21, but in the two days before his death his condition took a sharp turn for the worse and he was placed on a respirator, his spokesman Kristian Bzhaniya said.Bagapsh, who had led Abkhazia since 2005, was credited with leading the region to de facto independence.Abkhazia had spun out of Georgia's control in fighting in the early 1990s. But during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, Abkhaz forces with help from the Russian military succeeded in pushing Georgian troops out of the last bit of territory they held in Abkhazia.Moscow then recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, another separatist region and the focus of the brief war. Only Nicaragua, Venezuela and the small South Pacific island nation of Nauru have followed suit, while the ...

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