On February 16, the de facto Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia, Robert Kiut, met with the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and the State Secretary of Russia, Igor Zubov, in Moscow. The meeting discussed issues of cooperation between the “agencies.”

In Moscow, The Minister of Internal Affairs of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia, Robert Kyut, met with the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Igor Zubov. Zubov supervises the occupied regions of Georgia in the ministry.

On June 16, while his visit in Moscow, Alan Gagloyev, the de facto president of the Tskhinvali region, met with the Russian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Igor Zubov, who oversees the occupied regions of Georgia in the Ministry.

An agreement was signed  in Moscow between the de facto Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation on "co-financing the costs of a phased increase in the material and technical support of the internal affairs bodies of the [de facto] Republic of Abkhazia, monetary allowances and social guarantees for employees of the Internal Affairs Department of the [de facto] Republic of Abkhazia.”

On April 30, 2020, in Moscow, de facto ambassador of the Tskhinvali Region to Russia Znaur Gasiev and the Russian Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov signed additional protocol to the bilateral agreement signed on November 14, 2017.