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Ex-Soviet Monkeys Survive 15-Year Limbo

Breakaway republic can barely support survivors from better times

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 12, 2008 5:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Traumatized monkeys once the subjects of Soviet experiments are odd remnants of a more prosperous time in Abkhazia, an area of Georgia that calls itself independent, the Los Angeles Times reports. The area was crippled in its effort to break away from Georgia, but the...   Read full story »

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