Maxim Gvinjia Максим Ӷәынџьиа მაქსიმ ღვინჯია | |
Order: | 7th |
Office: | Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia |
Term Start: | 26 February 2010 |
Term End: | 11 October 2011 |
President: | Sergei Bagapsh Alexander Ankvab |
Primeminister: | Sergei Shamba |
Predecessor: | Sergei Shamba |
Successor: | Viacheslav Chirikba |
Birth Place: | Sukhumi |
Alma Mater: | Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages |
Maxim Gvinjia (Abkhazian: Максим Ӷәынџьиа, Georgian: მაქსიმ ღვინჯია) is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia. Before he was appointed on 26 February 2010 to replace Sergei Shamba,[1] Gvinjia had served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1 March 2004.[2]
Gvinjia was born on 13 March 1976 in Sukhumi. In 1998, he graduated from the Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages in Ukraine. Gvinjia is a member of the Abkhazian Committee to Ban Land Mines and has written a number of papers on the subject.[3]
In 2014, Éric Baudelaire directed a documentary film, Letters to Max,[4] based on a correspondence with Gvinjia, to whom Baudelaire sent a series of letters from Paris to test whether the French postal system would deliver mail to a state it doesn't recognize. Gvinjia received many of the letters, and responded with voice recordings that became the voiceover for the film.[5] [6]