All for One and One for All: Diplomatic Recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South-Ossetia

... difficulties for inhabitants in Abkhazia and South-Ossetia usually occurs after the talks on European security, and both the West and Russia tend to forget the daily struggle of people living in partially recognized states. While the United-States and the European Union have adopted “Ostrich diplomacy” — denying reality in Abkhazia and South-Ossetia, — Russia has done the same in Kosovo. Moscow is ready to support the diplomatic recognition of two new states in the tormented post-Soviet Caucasus and the West to recognize an independent Kosovo in an unstable former-Yugoslavia. Pavel Kandel: The Anniversary of Kosovo’s Independence: ...