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BLOG: Russia to recognise breakaway region's independence. (virtualcollector.blogspot.com)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By Tony Halpin in Tbilisi - Time, August 20, 2008


Georgia's breakway region of Abkhazia declared today that it would ask Russia to recognise its independence in a move that threatens to trigger a new crisis in the Caucasus.The Abkhaz parliament said that it would send a formal request for recognition to President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow tomorrow. Deputy speaker Vyacheslav Tsugba said: "The people of Abkhazia intend to ask the Russian leadership to recognise Abkhazia."

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