Issue 4270. Last Updated: 11/08/2009

Russia Adds 2 New Countries to Its Map

By Nabi Abdullaev
Defying warnings from Western leaders, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Tuesday that he had signed a decree recognizing the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.

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