Tourist information

 Media

If after all of the beautiful sites and attractions you still want to watch TV, listen to the radio or read newspapers, you will have access to local and Russian media outlets. All major Russian channels are available in Abkhazia: First Channel, Rossiya, NTV, TVTs, NTK Krasnodar Channel and Culture Channel, which airs Abkhaz State Television several times a day. You can also watch programming from Euronews and National Geographic on the non-government Abaza TV channel, which also airs several times a day.

On the radio (FM) you can listen to Abkhaz State Radio (aired several times a day on the Avtoradio channel), Soma private radio station, Voice of Russia, First Radio (Kuban) and Humor FM (which you will also hear in the minibus on your way from the Psou border checkpoint.

You can buy local and Russian newspapers and magazines at newsstands and kiosks in all Abkhaz cities. The most common periodicals are Komsomolskaya Pravda (including special Abkhaz editions), Argumenty i Fakty, Trud and Izvestia newspapers, Liza, Otdykhai, Karavan Istorii and 7 Dnei magazines and other similar periodicals. More serious political and analytical newspapers and magazines are harder to find, but you can still get them. The local print media includes state-owned Respublika Abkhazia (Russian) and Apsny (Abkhaz), as well as private Russian-language Chegemskaya Pravda, Nuzhnaya and Ekho Abkhazii.