On August 4, 2023, in an interview with the state news agency – TASS, Denis Gonchar, the Director of the 4th CIS Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, spoke about the occupied regions of Georgia. In the Ministry Gonchar supervises the South Caucasus direction, including the occupied regions. Key points expressed in the interview:

In an interview with Sputnik, the Russian Trade Representative in Abkhazia, Zalina Kobesova, spoke about the economic processes in the occupied Abkhazia and the functioning of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

On April 20, 2021, the de facto President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, paid his first “official” visit to Russia this year. During the visit, Bzhania gave an extensive interview to TASS. The main messages of the interview:

On January 26, the Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo office in the Tskhinvali region, Sergey Skvortsov, held a press conference.

On January 13, 2021, the “ambassador” of the Russian Federation to Abkhazia, Aleksey Dvinianin, gave an interview to Abkhazian television. During the interview, the “ambassador” dwelt on problems related to the protection of rights and interests of Russian citizens in Abkhazia. Key points from the interview were:

On December 11-19, 2020, the de facto President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, paid a working visit to the Russian Federation. On December 18, he gave an interview to the Kremlin propaganda news agency Russia Today, which was published on December 21.

The de facto President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, gave an interview to the international news channel Russia Today. During the interview Bzhania noted that recent events in Nagorno-Karabakh "will have some further consequences.

In connection with the 11th anniversary of Tskhinvali Region independence recognition by Russian Federation, Marat Kulakhmetov, Russian „ambassador“ to Tskhinvali Region, held a meeting with the reporters at the press center of the news agency „Sputnik“. Erik Pukhaev, de facto Prime Minister of the Region, and Marat Jioev, representative of de facto President, also attended the meeting.