A serious fire in an art museum in Georgia’s separatist region of Abkhazia along the Black Sea has burned thousands of paintings, according to the authorities. More than 4,000 works from the 19th and 20th centuries went up in flames in the building in the Abkhazian capital of Sukhumi on Saturday night. “This is irreparable damage for us”, said the director of the National Art Gallery, Suram Sakaniya, according to the Abkhazian news agency Apsnypress. According to the emergency services, the fire broke out in the roof area – according to initial findings, an electrical cable burned through ther…