Dmitri Shamba

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Dmitri Shamba
Acting Head of the Presidential Administration of Abkhazia
Assumed office
5 August 2016
President Raul Khajimba
Preceded by Beslan Bartsits
In office
6 May 2016 –16 May 2016
Preceded by Astamur Tania
Succeeded by Beslan Bartsits
Personal details
Born (1981-12-06) December 6, 1981 (age 36)
New Athos
Nationality Abkhaz

Dmitri Shamba is the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Abkhazia to the People's Assembly of Abkhazia and the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.

President of Abkhazia position

The position of President of Abkhazia was created in 1994. Before the office of president was created the head of state position was known as the Chairman of Parliament between 1992 and the creation of the 1994 constitution. Before the position of Chairman of Parliament, the highest office in Abkhazia was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. The post would last from the declaration of sovereignty from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on 25 August 1990 until the outright declaration of independence on 23 July 1992.

Peoples Assembly of Abkhazia legislature of Abkhazia

The People's Assembly of the Republic of Abkhazia is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Abkhazia.

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Early life and education

Shamba was born on 12 June 1981 in New Athos. He finished Gudauta School no. 7 in 1998, and graduated in Jurisprudence at the Abkhazian State University in 2003. [1]

New Athos town in Abkhazia, Georgia

New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia, situated some 22 km (14 mi) from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and Psyrtskha.

Abkhazian State University university

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Career in the Presidential Administration of Abkhazia

On 1 March 2005, became senior consultant in the Law and Economics Department of the Presidential Administration of newly elected President Sergei Bagapsh. [1] On 9 January 2009, Shamba was promoted to Head the Legal Sector of the Law and Economics Department, [1] and on 12 January, he was additionally appointed as Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the People's Assembly. [2] Following the death of Bagapsh in 2011, his successor Alexander Ankvab promoted Shamba to First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration on 11 October 2011, in place of Zurab Kajaja (in addition to his role as Representative to Parliament). [3] Following the resignation of Ankvab during the May 2014 revolution and the subsequent election of Raul Khajimba, Shamba was one of few officials to retain his post, being reappointed on 1 October 2014. [4] On two occasions, Shamba temporarily served as acting Head of the Presidential Administration, following the resignation of Astamur Tania on 6 May 2016 and the appointment of Beslan Bartsits as Prime Minister on 5 August 2016. [5] [6]

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Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was the second President of the Republic of Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister from 1997 to 1999 and was later elected as President in 2005. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. He died on 29 May 2011, at the age of 62, from complications of surgery.

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The Abkhazian Revolution took place in 2014, when President Aleksandr Ankvab resigned after hundreds of demonstrators stormed his office. After mass protests in the capital Sukhumi and the occupation of his office on 27 May, Ankvab fled to his hometown of Gudauta and ultimately resigned on 1 June, after previously denouncing the demonstration as an attempted coup d'état.

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  2. ↑ "Выпуск №6". Apsnypress. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Дмитрий Шамба назначен первым заместителем руководителя Администрации Президента". Apsnypress. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Рауль Хаджимба подписал указы о назначении заместителей руководителя Администрации Президента Абхазии". Apsnypress. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "РАУЛЬ ХАДЖИМБА: "РЕШЕНИЕ О ТОМ, КАКИМ СТАНЕТ ОБЛИК ГОРОДА, ДОЛЖНЫ ПРИНИМАТЬ ВЫ – ТКУАРЧАЛЬЦЫ"". Abkhazia Inform. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
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