Career
During the nineties, he had been critical of President Vladislav Ardzinba. There were rumours that Achba would run for president in the 1999 presidential election, which he dismissed in an interview with Nuzhnaya Gazeta as a "nightmare of an idea". Zurab Achba was born on 23 February 1950.
He attended Sukhumi"s secondary school northern
10 named after Nestor Lakoba and graduated from the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University.