Tali Japua is the current General Director of the Abkhazian State TV and Radio.
[1] In the November 1996 elections, Japua successfully ran for a seat of the 2nd convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia.
On 13 November 2003, she was appointed Minister for General, Secondary and Higher Education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Raul Khajimba, after Abkhazian State University Rector Aleko Gvaramia had resigned from the post.
[4] On 4 November 2016, Japua was appointed as the new General Director of the Abkhazian State TV and Radio,[1] succeeding Leonid Enik, who wanted to resign after less than a year due to ill health.
[5] Her appointment was criticised with the question whether she could be sufficiently independent as long as Japua's husband Aslan Kobakhia held the post of Vice Premier and Interior Minister.