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Maxim Gvinjia

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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 48)
Sukhumi
Alma materGorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages

Maxim Gvinjia (Abkhaz: 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]

Early life and career

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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]

See also

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References

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  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.