MOSCOW — Sergei V. Bagapsh, who led the Black Sea enclave of Abkhazia through a tumultuous effort to gain independence from Georgia without being absorbed by Russia, died Sunday in Moscow. He was 62. Mikhail Klimentyev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sergei Bagapsh, right, president of Abkhazia, which broke with Georgia, and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, in 2008. Mr. Bagapsh had successful surgery to remove growths on his lung on May 21, but succumbed to complications that ended in heart failure, medical officials told the Interfax news service. The affable manner of Mr. Bagapsh, who governed Abkhazia as its president, concealed the strategic thinking of a chess player, a…
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