Yelena Zavodskaya has been a correspondent for RFE/RL's Echo of the Caucasus in Sukhumi since 2013.
Firefighters and artists rushed to save artworks after a fire at the National Gallery of Paintings in Sukhumi, the administrative center of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, on January 21. Abkhazia has been run by Russian-backed separatists since the early 1990s.
