{"id":1200,"date":"2014-08-21T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:40:10","slug":"russian-humanitarian-aid-past-recipients-say-theres-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-humanitarian-aid-past-recipients-say-theres-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Humanitarian Aid? 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It also provided missiles, submachine guns, and other heavy artillery to the city&nbsp;&mdash; allowing the newly armed Abkhaz separatists to eventually fight down the Georgian military, take the regional capital, Sukhumi, and declare de facto independence.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian official in charge of the humanitarian aid mission? Then-head of the Emergency Situations Ministry Sergei Shoigu&nbsp;&mdash; now Russian defense minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/history-russia-humanitarian-aid\/26527433.html\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year into the brutal 1992-93 Georgian-Abkhaz war, Russia sent a so-called humanitarian-aid column to the separatist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,528],"tags":[87,97,166,169],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","tag-georgian-abkhaz-war","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-russia","tag-russian-federation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian Humanitarian Aid? 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It also provided missiles, submachine guns, and other heavy artillery to the city&nbsp;&mdash; allowing the newly armed Abkhaz separatists to eventually fight down the Georgian military, take the regional capital, Sukhumi, and declare de facto independence.\n\nThe Russian official in charge of the humanitarian aid mission? 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