In 2020, he was appointed as the head of the Department of Geopolitics at the Centre for Strategic Studies under the President of Abkhazia.
[1] Editorial positions: Affiliations: On 11 October 2011, Chirikba was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs by newly elected President Alexander Ankvab.
[2] On 17 October 2014, Chirikba was one of few government members to be re-appointed in the cabinet of Prime Minister Beslan Butba following the May 2014 Revolution and subsequent election of Raul Khajimba as president.
[5] Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Implementation of the State Program of the Abkhaz Language Development.
He is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Fund "International Centre for Information and Documentation about Abkhazia".