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On October 21, 2025, Oleg Bartsits, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia received Alisa Gitsba, People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and director of the International Music Competition-Laboratory "Music – Dialogue Without Borders and Distance," and Katerin Velasquez, leading soloist of the Nicaraguan Incanto Foundation (Nicaraguan Vocal Institute) and participant in the 4-th Alisa Gitsba International Music Competition-Laboratory.
On October 20, a working meeting was held between Oleg Bartsits, Foreign Minister and Isaac Koumessina, Ambassador-at-Large of the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia. Irakli Tuzhba, Acting Deputy Foreign Minister participated in the meeting.
On October 3, 2025, a meeting was held between Oleg Bartsits, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, and Sergei Markedonov, political scientist, leading researcher at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University, and editor-in-chief of the journal "International Analytics" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia.
Opening remarks by Oleg Bartsits, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, at a meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation:
On October 1, during a meeting between Oleg Bartsits, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, and Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a plan of consultations was signed between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for 2026-2027.
A meeting between Oleg Bartsits, the Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Abkhazia, Diana Piliia and Anait Smbatyan, Professor of the International Law Department at the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia. Abkhazian Foreign Ministry staff also participated in the meeting.
On September 12, as part of a working visit to Moscow, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Bartsits met the Chairman of the Presidium of the Foundation for Assistance to the Protection of Rights and Legitimate Interests of Citizens Abroad "Russian World", Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Baburin.
During a working visit to Moscow, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Bartsits held a meeting at the Embassy of Abkhazia in Russia.
On September 9, during the working visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Bartsits to Moscow, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Director of the 4th CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kalugin. The meeting was attended from the Abkhazian side by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Odissei Bigvava and Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Abkhazia in Russia Madina Avidzba.