Nurbei Lomia


Nurbei Lomia is the current Chairman of the State Committee for State Language Policy of Abkhazia in the Government of President Khajimba.

Early life and career

Lomia was born in 1977. In 1998, he graduated from the Philology Faculty of the Abkhazian State University. Between 2003 and 2005, he worked as a correspondent for the State Broadcaster. Since 2003, he was also a junior researcher in the Dialectology Laboratory of the Abkhazian Institute for Humanities Research.

Political career

On 30 August 2016, Lomia became part of the Government of President Khajimba when he was appointed head of the newly created State Committee for State Language Policy in the cabinet of Prime Minister Beslan Bartsits.