Badra Gunba

Badra Zurabovich Gunba (Abkhaz: Бадра Зураб-иԥа Гәынба, romanized: Badra Zurab-ipha Gwynba; born 14 August 1981) is an Abkhazian politician who has been the sixth president of Abkhazia since 2025. He previously served as the seventh vice president under President Aslan Bzhania from 2020 to 2025. Born in Sukhumi while it was part of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Gunba was educated as an economist at the Saratov State Agrarian University. He became the Deputy Minister of Culture in 2009, and then Minister of Culture in 2011. In 2020, Bzhania selected Gunba to be his running mate for the 2020 presidential election where they both ran as Independents. Bzhania eventually won the elections and he became president with Gunba becoming vice president on 23 March 2020. In November 2024, protests against Bzhania broke out and he resigned the presidency on 19 November and where Gunba became acting president. In 2025, Gunba ran for the presidential election held in March of that year where he won and was sworn in as president on 2 April.