Abkhazia announced the first tourists who came from Russia

“Most of them are tourists,” RIA Novosti quoted Latipov as saying.

He added that "the transition is intense."

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the opening of the Russian-Abkhaz border.

Later, the Prime Minister of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, announced after an emergency meeting of the coordination headquarters to protect the population from coronavirus infection COVID-19 about the opening of the border with Russia.