Russia/Georgia, the rest of the story

Georgia as seen from Azerbaijan

Living in Azerbaijan, I may be somewhat closer to recent events in Georgia than many of your other readers. A few points for you to consider:

1. Neither Abkhazia, nor South Ossetia were ever formally an integral part of the Georgian Socialist Republic. Abkhazia, during the Soviet Union days was an independent Socialist Republic. South Ossetia was an Autonomous Region, (Times Atlas of the World - 1990 edition and earlier ­ A.O. translates as Autonomous Okrug, or region). U.S., EU and NATO claims that Russia respect Georgia's territorial integrity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are baseless, and indeed incorrect. Amazing that none of the millions of bureaucrats in the west has bothered to refer to a world atlas from the Soviet period.

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