"RECOGNIZING GEORGIA'S REBEL REGIONS
West Voices Dismay at Russia's 'Unacceptable' Move"
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"THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
'Russia Is Preparing for the Endgame in the Caucasus'"
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But the Russians of course can cite our Kosovo precedent:
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Plus:
"The Consequences of Kosovo
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Keep that lesson in mind over the next few months as others in Europe -- and possibly elsewhere -- attempt to use the Kosovo example as a precedent. After all, if the Albanians can be independent from Serbia, the Abkhazians and South Ossetians would like to be independent from Georgia, the Basques and the Catalonians don't see why they shouldn't be independent from Spain, and who knows what could happen in Cyprus."
Mark
Ottawa
Mark you've forgotten one very important place, the majority Armenian enclave of Nogorno-Karabakh.
That could get interesting