Indirect presidential elections were held in Abkhazia for the first time on 26 November 1994.Donnacha Ó Beacháin (2013) "Elections in De Facto States: Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Transnistria" Center for Strategic and International Studies: Russia and Eurasia Program. Vladislav Ardzinba was elected President, and was inaugurated on 6 December.Abkhazia: Ways forward Crisis Group, 18 January 2007, p8
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