Malkhaz Akishbaia
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Malkhaz Akishbaia (Abkhaz: Малхас Акышьбаиа, Georgian: მალხაზ აკიშბაია) is an ethnic Abkhaz and the Chairman of Cabinet of Ministers of the de jure Government of Abkhazia in Upper Abkhazia. Born in Sukhumi, Georgia in 1963, Akishbaia graduated from Kiev University and finished his master’s degree at University of Oxford, in England. During the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, along with the other members of the Government who have survived the massacre of September 27, 1993, he fled to Tbilisi where he was an active member of Abkhaz Government in exile. In April 2006 he became the head of the De-jure Government of Abkhazia in Chkhalta, Upper Abkhazia (formerly known as the Kodori Valley).