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Ruslan Kishmaria

Abkhazian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ23882872 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ruslan Kishmaria is a politician from Abkhazia. Between May 1994 and 1997, and again from 1998 to March 2004, he was head of the Gali District. Between 1997 and 1998, Kishmaria was a deputy of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia. In 2004, Kishmaria unsuccessfully ran for Vice President alongside Anri Jergenia, finishing in fourth place with 2.63% of the vote.

On 4 May 2016, Kishmaria was awarded the Order of Leon by President Raul Khajimba.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ruslan Kishmaria” is abkhazian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ruslan, Kishmaria and Abkhazian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1997, 1998, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ruslan, Kishmaria and Abkhazian is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23882872. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1997, 1998 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ruslan Kishmaria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.