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The “supreme court” in Russia-occupied Abkhazia sentenced Georgian national Shalva Khizanishvili to six years and nine months in a “maximum-security penal colony,” after finding him guilty of “espionage” and “illegal acquisition, possession, and carrying of firearms, ammunition, and explosive devices.” Khizanishvili, a teacher from Gali, an area in Abkhazia settled by ethnic Georgians, was detained …