Abkhazian Repatriates: Problems of Adaptation

Abstract

The article is devoted to repatriates who, for various reasons, decided to return to their historical homeland at the end of XX XXIV. And the problems they face in the process of adaptation. The article emphasizes the existence of two groups of returnees and draws attention to the difference between the problems faced by the representatives of each group. Among the existing problems the most acute is the language

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