Viacheslav Chirikba
| Viacheslav Chirikba | |
|---|---|
| 8th Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 11 October 2011 – 20 September 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Leonid Lakerbaia Beslan Butba Artur Mikvabia |
| Preceded by | Maxim Gvinjia |
| Succeeded by | Daur Kove |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 March 1959 Gagra, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater |
University of Kharkiv Russian Academy of Sciences Leiden University |
| Website | Academic website |
Viacheslav Chirikba is a linguist and politician from Abkhazia. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia between 2011 and 2016. since 11 October 2011.
Chirikba was born on 17 March 1959 in Gagra. From 1966 until 1976, he attended School №5 in Gagra. Chirikba is Married and has three sons.
1977 – 1982 Student of Foreign Languages Department, V.N.Karazin Kharkov State University.
Diploma Work “Literary Paradox in the Works of George Bernard Shaw, O. Wilde and W. Shakespeare”.
Supervisor: I.V. Gavrilchenko.
1982 – 1986 Postgraduate Student of the Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences.
Candidate’s Dissertation “System of Whistling and Hissing Sounds in Abkhaz-Adyghe Languages”.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M.A. Kumakhov.
1986 – 1991 Research Fellow at the Department of Caucasian Languages of the Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences.
1991 – 1996 Doctoral Candidate at the Institute for Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands. In 1996 he defended the doctoral thesis “Common West Caucasian. The Reconstruction of its Phonological System and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. F.kortlandt, Dr. R. Smeets.
1996 – 1997 Invited Researcher at the Institute of International Relations “Clingendael”, The Hague, Netherlands. Research topic: “Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict”.
2000 – 2004 Postdoctoral Research Project «Grammar of Sadz Abkhaz », Lecturer of Caucasian Languages at the Institute for Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands.
Courses taught: Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics; Abkhaz Grammar; Georgian Grammar.
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