Maxim Gvinjia

Maxim Gvinjia (Abkhazian: Максим Ӷәынџьиа, 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]

Maxim Gvinjia
Максим Ӷәынџьиа
მაქსიმ ღვინჯია
7th Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia
In office
26 February 2010 – 11 October 2011
PresidentSergei Bagapsh
Alexander Ankvab
Prime MinisterSergei Shamba
Preceded bySergei Shamba
Succeeded byViacheslav Chirikba
Personal details
Born13 March 1976 (1976-03-13) (age 44)
Sukhumi
Alma materGorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages

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
  1. "New Abkhaz FM Appointed". Civil Georgia. 26 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  2. "Предыдущие Министры и их Заместители". 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  3. "Заместители". 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  4. "Letters to Max. 2014. Directed by Eric Baudelaire | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  5. "Cinema Scope | Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire, France)". cinema-scope.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  6. 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.
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