Beslan Butba
| Beslan Butba Беслан Быҭәба |
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| Prime Minister of Abkhazia | |
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In office 29 September 2014 – 16 March 2015 |
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| President | Raul Khajimba |
| Preceded by |
Vladimir Delba (Acting) Leonid Lakerbaia |
| Succeeded by |
Shamil Adzynba (Acting) Artur Mikvabia |
| Chairman of the Party for the Economic Development of Abkhazia | |
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Assumed office 26 September 2007 |
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| Deputy | Beslan Baratelia |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 February 1960 Chlou, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Party for the Economic Development of Abkhazia |
| Alma mater |
Moscow State Construction University Interdisciplinary Centre of Ergonomic Research and Development |
Beslan Butba (Abkhaz: Беслан Быҭәба, Georgian: ბესლან ბუთბა) (born February 7, 1960) is a businessman and a former Prime Minister of Abkhazia. He owns Abkhazia's only private television station Abaza TV and is the chairman of the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia. Butba was an unsuccessful candidate in the December 2009 presidential election.
Beslan Butba was born on 7 February 1960 in the village of Chlou in the Ochamchira District of the Abkhazian ASSR. In 1983 he graduated from the Institute for Engineering and Construction in Moscow.
In 2009, Butba obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree in Moscow, and in March 2011, his Doctor of Sciences degree in Tula at the Russian Interdisciplinary Centre for Ergonomic Research and Development.
After graduation in 1983, Butba began working for the Repair and Construction Department No. 1 of Moscow. Three years later he became head of the department. Butba first entered business when in 1989 he founded a cooperation in Moscow. He returned to Abkhazia in 1990 where he also started to do business. In 2005 he became head of the Business Club Sukhum. In 2007 he founded Abaza TV, Abkhazia's first private Television channel, which started broadcasting at 19:30 on 26 June 2007. Butba also owns the newspaper Ekho Abkhazii.
Beslan Butba was a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia from 2002 until 2007, and he headed the Committee for Interparliamentary Relations. In 2007, he failed to be re-elected. He then founded and became Chairman of the Party of the Economic Development of Abkhazia, which held its first congress on 26 September 2007.
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