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Russia will place bases in the newly independent states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and build relations with the two countries, Russian president Medvedev announced at a meeting with the media in the city of Izhevsk.
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The situation is escalating in Georgia's second breakaway republic - Abkhazia. Its troops are on the move towards the security zone in the Gali region close to the border with Georgia. Meanwhile they are continuing a military operation to dislodge Georgian forces in the upper Kodori Gorge in northern Abkhazia.
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Election Opinion Survey Results-December 19, 2008
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Abkhazia Institute for Social and Economic Research
Irakli Gagua,
Ramaz Mitaishvili,
Ushangi Rezhinashvili
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia will recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He made the announcement in Sochi following a unanimous vote for the republics' independence by both houses of the Russian Parliament in Moscow on Monday.
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Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia has called on the G8 countries, the UN and the OSCE to stop what it describes as a 'terror threat from Georgia' following a series of blasts in the region. Sukhumi has also announced it is cutting any kind of contact with Tbilisi.
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Abkhazia is urging Russia to take military control of the breakaway Georgian republic. Georgia has also announced that it's pulling out of an air defence agreement with Russia. Both steps come amid tensions over Georgian spy flights.
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