Stanislav Lakoba | |
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| Станислав Лакоба | |
| Secretary of theSecurity Council of Abkhazia | |
| In office 17 February 2005 – 25 August 2009 | |
| President | Sergei Bagapsh |
| Deputy | Aleksandr Voinskiy |
| Preceded by | Almasbei Kchach |
| Succeeded by | Aleksandr Voinskiy |
| In office 7 December 2011 – 28 October 2013 | |
| President | Alexander Ankvab |
| Preceded by | Otar Khetsia |
| Succeeded by | Nugzar Ashuba |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1953-02-23)23 February 1953 Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, USSR |
| Died | 20 September 2025(2025-09-20) (aged 72) |
| Political party | Amtsakhara |
| Alma mater | Sukhumi State Pedagogical Institute |
Stanislav Lakoba (Abkhaz:Станислав Лакоба,Georgian:სტანისლავ ლაკობა; 23 February 1953 – 20 September 2025) was an academic and politician fromAbkhazia. Lakoba wasSergei Bagapsh's vice-presidential candidate in the2004 presidential election and from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2011 to 2013 he served as Secretary of the Security Council. He was Professor in Archeology, Ethnology and History at theAbkhazian State University.
Lakoba was born inSukhumi on 23 February 1953. He was partiallyAfro-Abkhazian through a paternal great-grandfather fromPichori.[citation needed] Lakoba graduated from the History faculty of theSukhumi State Pedagogical Institute.
He was the author of the1989 Lykhny declaration. During the1992–1993 war with Georgia Lakoba was a member of the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet. From 1993 to 1994 he served as First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council and from 1994 to 1996 as the First Deputy Speaker of the Supreme Soviet.
During theOctober 1999 presidential election Stanislav Lakoba published the controversial Выборы по Хичкоку -Hitchcock's election - an article in which he criticised the fact that in the election incumbent presidentVladislav Ardzinba ran unopposed.
From 2000 onwards Lakoba became first Acting Professor and then Professor in Archeology, Ethnology and History at theAbkhazian State University. From 2000 to 2004 he was a visiting professor at theHokkaido University Center for Slavic Studies.[1]
Stanislav Lakoba was a member of the socio-political movementAmtsakhara. In the run-up to the 3 October 2004 presidential election, Amtsakhara decided to enter into an alliance with fellow opposition partyUnited Abkhazia. On 20 June, the two movements announced that they would nominate United Abkhazia's Sergei Bagapsh for the post of President and Lakoba for the post of Vice President.[2]
Bagapsh and Lakoba narrowly won in the first round with just 50.08% of the votes, but this was hotly contested by supporters ofRaul Khajimba. The resulting stand-off lasted until on 5 December Bagapsh and Khajimba struck a deal in which the pair would run on a combined ticket in a new election.
The deal between Bagapsh and Khajimba meant that Lakoba would no longer become vice president. Instead, afterthe new election on 12 January 2005, Lakoba was appointed Secretary of the Security Council on 17 February.[1]
When Khajimba resigned as vice president on 28 May 2009 he declared that within the government he had received most support by Lakoba.[3] On 18 August Lakoba himself handed his resignation over theAbkhazian citizenship crisis, which was ratified on 25 August by President Bagapsh.[4] On 17 September Lakoba's deputy in the Security CouncilAleksandr Voinskiy was appointed to temporarily succeed him.[5]
In an interview withCaucasian Knot on 3 September Lakoba stated that he would not participate in theDecember 2009 presidential election and he called absurd the notion that he would join the opposition.[6] Nevertheless, in an interview with the newspaperNuzhnaya on 17 November, Lakoba stated that as a private citizen he supported Khajimba's candidacy and he praised his work in the Security Council.[7]
After the death ofSergei Bagapsh in 2011, Stanislav Lakoba was once again appointed Security Council Secretary on 7 December by his successorAlexander Ankvab, previously Vice President.[8]
However, on 28 October 2013, President Ankvab dismissed Stanislav Lakoba, over the same issue that had also prompted his resignation in 2009, the issuing of passports to Georgian residents of Abkhazia.[9]
Lakoba died on 20 September 2025, at the age of 72, after suffering a heart attack while driving that led to his car crashing into a pole.[10]
He was a distant relative ofNestor Lakoba.
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