An agreement between the Russian company "Rosneft" and Abkhazian "state company" "Abkhaztop", together with an agreement among the Ministry of Economy of the proxy regime and the company of "RN-Abkhazia" were signed on December 24, 2009. According to the above-mentioned agreements the Russian Federation was entitled with the right to start research works over the Black Sea continental shelf at the Gudauta segment, Georgia.

 An agreement between the Russian company "Rosneft" and Abkhazian "state company" "Abkhaztop", together with an agreement among the Ministry of Economy of the proxy regime and the company of "RN-Abkhazia" were signed on December 24, 2009. According to the above-mentioned agreements the Russian Federation was entitled with the right to start research works over the Black Sea continental shelf at the Gudauta segment, Georgia.

Today in Moscow, Foreign Ministers of Russia and Abkhazia Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shamba have signed the intergovernmental agreement which "creates the legal basis for functioning of diplomatic representative offices of the two countries."

Now, telephone calls to Abkhazia are made entirely by means of Russian area codes.

Back on September 28, 2009, Russia and Abkhazia signed a memorandum, according to which Russia delivered its codes of fixed and cellular telephony to this breakaway republic, and on November 15 Abkhazia received its code "840" for fixed and "940" - for mobile telephones.