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Russia organizes civil funerals of Georgia's first separatist leader

05 March 2010 [18:35] - TODAY.AZ
Russians are mourning the first leader of the Abkhazian separatist regime Vladislav Ardzinba, who died of severe illness in at a central clinics in Moscow on March 4.
Russians organized a civil funeral of the separatist leader in the culture centre of the museum of armed forces, from where the corpse of the separatist politician will be taken to the occupied Abkhazia.

According to his own will, Ardzinba will be buried in Eshera.

Russian MPs and other senior authorities went to the funeral today. The representatives of the Abkhazia and South Ossetia puppet regimes were also attending the funeral.

Russian General, Marat Kulakhmetov, who commanded the so-called peacekeeping mission of Russia in South Ossetia, was also present at the funeral.


/Georgian Times/
URL: http://www.today.az/news/regions/63306.html

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