In Abkhazia, government agencies were advised to decorate artificial Christmas trees for the New Year.
Prime Minister of Abkhazia Vladimir Dalva signed a decree to strengthen control over the protection of coniferous plantations in order to prevent illegal cutting of trees in the run-up to the New Year, the government press service reported. "The State Forestry Administration, the State Committee for Ecology and Natural Resources and the Ministry of the Interior have been instructed to strengthen the supervision of the protection of conifer plantations and to suppress the unauthorized felling of conifers in the United State Forestry Fund, in parks, squares, and their illegal sale," the announcement reads.