After the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Soviet Union (as it was known to Cold War aficionados) split into republics and nations. The splitting process, as you can appreciate, was not an easy one, with factions and governments splintering and bickering and, yes, even waging war for control and for legitimacy. One such self-styled Republic was Abkhazia – a territory claimed to be owned and controlled by the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus.
In 1994, the government of Abkhazia did something that was novel and quite humorous – ostensibly to gain both global credibility and revenue (and to serve a practical purpose for the emerging, would-be Republic), and in the process, put an indelible, although not particularly valuable, stamp on one of the oldest hobbies in the world. Can you tell me what they did?